[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":413},["ShallowReactive",2],{"recipe:vietnamese-summer-rolls":3,"recipe:country:vietnam":189},{"slug":4,"title":5,"nativeName":6,"romanized":7,"pronunciation":8,"countrySlug":9,"region":10,"emoji":11,"summary":12,"intro":13,"story":14,"whyThis":15,"tips":20,"substitutions":27,"variations":40,"serveWith":50,"storage":52,"faq":53,"equipment":69,"baseServings":74,"prepMinutes":75,"cookMinutes":76,"difficulty":77,"course":78,"diet":81,"mainIngredients":83,"ingredients":88,"instructions":141,"nutrition":171,"images":176,"keywords":180,"publishedAt":187,"updatedAt":187,"authorSlug":188},"vietnamese-summer-rolls","Vietnamese Summer Rolls with Peanut Sauce","Gỏi cuốn","Goi cuon","GOY koo-UHN","vietnam","Southern Vietnam","🥬","Fresh Vietnamese rice-paper rolls packed with poached shrimp, vermicelli, cucumber and a fistful of mint, served cool with a peanut-hoisin dipping sauce. No cooking skill needed — just rolling practice.","Gỏi cuốn — literally \"salad roll\" — is the fresh, un-fried side of the Vietnamese roll family: translucent rice paper wrapped around poached shrimp, cool rice vermicelli, crisp lettuce, cucumber and enough mint that every bite tastes green. Nothing about them is heavy; they are served at room temperature or cool, and the pleasure is texture — snappy shrimp, soft noodles, crunchy vegetables — pulled together by a thick peanut-hoisin sauce for dipping. The cooking is trivial (poach shrimp, soak noodles), so the whole skill of this recipe lives in your fingertips: softening the rice paper just enough and rolling it tight. Expect the first two rolls to be ugly and the fifth to look professional.","Gỏi cuốn belongs to southern Vietnam, where the year-round growing season of the Mekong Delta keeps tables stacked with lettuce and herbs, and where the habit of wrapping food in leaves and rice paper runs deepest. The classic filling is actually pork and shrimp together — slices of gently boiled pork belly alongside the halved shrimp — with rice vermicelli, lettuce and herbs, and the traditional dipping sauce in the south is tương, a fermented soybean sauce enriched with peanuts, the ancestor of the peanut-hoisin sauce served in restaurants abroad. A shrimp-only roll like this one is a common, lighter everyday version, and nothing about it is inauthentic; households fill rolls with whatever the market offered.\n\nThe wrapper itself is a small piece of food technology worth admiring: bánh tráng, a paper-thin sheet of dried rice starch, brittle as glass until a few seconds of water turn it supple and self-sealing. Rice paper villages around Vietnam have made it for generations, traditionally sun-drying the sheets on woven bamboo racks, which leave the faint crosshatch pattern you can still see on many packets.\n\nAbroad, gỏi cuốn earned the English name \"summer rolls\" mostly to distinguish them from fried spring rolls (chả giò), with which menus endlessly confuse them — same family, opposite character. One arrives hot, golden and crackling; the other cool, soft and transparent, with the pink of the shrimp showing through the wrapper. That transparency is the point: a well-made roll displays its ingredients like a shop window, which is why cooks lay the shrimp cut-side up as the first layer, so the orange stripe faces out through the paper. In Vietnam they are eaten as a snack, a starter, or a light meal on a hot day — food built for exactly the weather the name promises.",[16,17,18,19],"The rolling method is broken down step by step — shrimp placement, fold order, tension — so your rolls hold together and look like the restaurant's.","A two-second rice-paper dip, not a soak: the single technique fix that stops tearing and gluey, collapsed rolls.","The peanut-hoisin sauce is balanced from the southern tương tradition, not just peanut butter thinned with water.","Everything can be prepped ahead and rolled at the table — which is how Vietnamese families actually eat them.",[21,22,23,24,25,26],"Dip the rice paper in warm water for only 2–3 seconds, until barely flexible. It keeps absorbing moisture as you fill, and paper that feels slightly stiff when it leaves the water is perfect by the time you roll.","Work on a damp, smooth surface — a wet cutting board or a damp lint-free towel. Softened rice paper welds itself to dry wood and tears on lifting.","Lay the shrimp halves cut-side up in a row first, so their orange backs face outward through the finished roll — the classic shop-window look.","Underfill. A roll needs less than you think: about three tablespoons of filling total. Overstuffed rolls split at the seam or blow out the sides.","Roll tight from the first fold, tucking the filling under the paper with your fingertips and pulling back slightly to create tension, like rolling a sleeping bag.","Keep finished rolls from touching each other — the wrappers fuse on contact. Line them up on a plate with small gaps, or separate them with lettuce leaves.",[28,32,36],{"original":29,"swap":30,"note":31},"Shrimp","Thin slices of poached pork belly, shredded poached chicken, or fried tofu strips","Pork-and-shrimp together is the traditional southern combination; tofu makes the rolls fully vegetarian if you also use a vegetarian dipping sauce.",{"original":33,"swap":34,"note":35},"Hoisin sauce","1 tbsp soy sauce mixed with 2 tsp sugar and a small spoon of miso","An approximation — sweeter and less complex than real hoisin, which is cheap and keeps for months, so buying a jar is the better fix.",{"original":37,"swap":38,"note":39},"Rice vermicelli","Thin cooked rice noodles of any width, chopped short","Any plain rice noodle works once cooled. Skip wheat noodles — they taste out of place and stain the roll beige.",[41,44,47],{"name":42,"description":43},"Classic pork and shrimp","The full traditional gỏi cuốn: add thin slices of boiled pork belly under the noodles, with the shrimp still facing out through the paper.",{"name":45,"description":46},"Nước chấm rolls","Skip the peanut sauce and dip in nước chấm — lime, fish sauce, sugar, garlic and chile — the lighter, sharper choice common in Vietnam.",{"name":48,"description":49},"Bò cuốn lá","A grilled twist: fill the rolls with lemongrass-marinated grilled beef and extra herbs instead of shrimp, a popular street variation.",[51],"Serve as a starter before chicken phở, or make a light meal of them with iced jasmine tea on a hot day.","Summer rolls are best within 2–3 hours of rolling. For a short hold, wrap each roll individually in plastic or cover the plate with a barely damp towel and keep at cool room temperature; refrigeration slowly stiffens the rice paper and hardens the noodles. Do not freeze. The peanut sauce, by contrast, keeps a week refrigerated — so prep sauce and fillings ahead and roll fresh.",[54,57,60,63,66],{"question":55,"answer":56},"What is the difference between summer rolls and spring rolls?","Summer rolls (gỏi cuốn) are fresh: soft rice paper wrapped around cooked shrimp, raw vegetables, herbs and noodles, served cool and never fried. Spring rolls in the Vietnamese sense (chả giò) are wrapped, then deep-fried until golden and crisp, usually with a pork filling. Menus outside Vietnam mix the names up constantly; if it is translucent and cold, it is a summer roll.",{"question":58,"answer":59},"Why does my rice paper keep tearing or sticking?","Almost always over-soaking. Rice paper should leave the water after 2–3 seconds while still slightly stiff — it continues softening on the board as you arrange the filling. Work on a damp surface so it cannot glue itself down, fill lightly, and handle it with flat hands rather than fingertips. If a sheet does tear, wrap the finished roll in a second sheet; doubling is a normal rescue.",{"question":61,"answer":62},"Can I make summer rolls ahead for a party?","A few hours ahead, yes: roll them, keep them from touching one another, cover with a lightly damp towel and hold at cool room temperature. Overnight is where they fail — refrigerated rice paper turns leathery and the noodles harden. The party-proof approach is the Vietnamese one: set out platters of fillings, a bowl of warm water and a stack of rice paper, and let guests roll their own.",{"question":64,"answer":65},"What goes in the peanut dipping sauce for summer rolls?","The restaurant standard blends hoisin sauce and smooth peanut butter with water, a little vinegar or lime for edge, and garlic, simmered or whisked until pourable, then topped with crushed peanuts and chile. It descends from tương, the fermented-soybean-and-peanut sauce of southern Vietnam. The target balance is sweet-savory with gentle acidity — thick enough to cling to the roll.",{"question":67,"answer":68},"Are Vietnamese summer rolls healthy?","They are among the lighter things on any Vietnamese menu: poached shrimp, raw vegetables, herbs and a modest amount of rice noodles, with no frying and no dairy. A typical roll runs roughly 80–100 calories before sauce. The peanut-hoisin sauce is the calorie-dense part, so dippers watching intake can switch to nước chấm, which is nearly fat-free.",[70,71,72,73],"Small pot for poaching","Wide shallow bowl or pie dish for water","Large cutting board","Sharp knife",4,40,10,"easy",[79,80],"appetizer","snack",[82],"dairy-free",[84,85,86,87],"shrimp","mint","cucumber","rice",[89,94,99,102,106,109,113,117,121,124,128,133,138],{"ref":84,"qty":90,"unit":91,"name":92,"group":93},400,"g","medium shrimp, peeled and deveined","For the rolls",{"qty":95,"unit":96,"name":97,"note":98,"group":93},12,"piece","rice paper sheets (bánh tráng), 22 cm","buy extra — some will tear while you learn",{"ref":87,"qty":100,"unit":91,"name":101,"group":93},100,"thin rice vermicelli noodles (bún)",{"qty":103,"unit":96,"name":104,"note":105,"group":93},8,"soft lettuce leaves, ribs removed","butter or green-leaf lettuce",{"ref":86,"qty":107,"unit":96,"name":108,"group":93},1,"cucumber, seeded and cut into thin batons",{"ref":110,"qty":107,"unit":96,"name":111,"optional":112,"group":93},"carrot","carrot, cut into fine matchsticks",true,{"ref":85,"qty":107,"unit":114,"name":115,"note":116,"group":93},"cup","fresh mint leaves","plus cilantro or Thai basil if you like",{"qty":74,"unit":118,"name":119,"group":120},"tbsp","hoisin sauce","For the peanut sauce",{"qty":122,"unit":118,"name":123,"group":120},3,"smooth peanut butter",{"ref":125,"qty":107,"unit":126,"name":127,"group":120},"garlic","clove","garlic, finely grated",{"ref":129,"qty":130,"unit":131,"name":132,"group":120},"vinegar",2,"tsp","rice vinegar or lime juice",{"qty":134,"unit":135,"name":136,"note":137,"noScale":112,"group":120},60,"ml","warm water","to thin, as needed",{"qty":130,"unit":118,"name":139,"note":140,"optional":112,"group":120},"roasted peanuts, crushed","for topping the sauce",[142,146,150,154,157,161,164,168],{"title":143,"text":144,"timerSeconds":145},"Poach the shrimp","Drop {qty:shrimp} of shrimp into a pot of gently simmering salted water and poach until they turn opaque pink and curl into loose Cs, 2–3 minutes — pull them before they coil into tight Os, which means overcooked. Cool in cold water, drain, and slice each one in half lengthwise along the back.",180,{"title":147,"text":148,"timerSeconds":149},"Cook and cool the noodles","Cook the vermicelli in boiling water until just tender, usually 3–4 minutes, then rinse under cold running water until fully cool, tossing so the strands release their surface starch. Drain very well — wet noodles make the paper slip.",240,{"title":151,"text":152,"tip":153},"Make the peanut sauce","Whisk the hoisin, peanut butter, garlic and vinegar in a small bowl, then whisk in warm water a spoonful at a time until the sauce falls thickly from the whisk like honey. Scrape into a serving bowl and top with crushed peanuts.","For a rounder flavor, simmer the sauce for a minute on low heat — it thickens, so thin it again with water.",{"title":155,"text":156},"Set up a rolling station","Arrange the shrimp, noodles, lettuce, cucumber, carrot and mint in separate piles within reach. Fill a wide shallow bowl with warm water and set a damp cutting board or damp towel in front of you as the rolling surface.",{"title":158,"text":159,"tip":160},"Soften the first wrapper","Dip one rice paper sheet in the warm water for just 2–3 seconds, rotating it so the whole surface gets wet, and lay it flat on the damp board. It should still feel slightly stiff — it will finish softening while you build the filling.","If the paper is fully floppy when it comes out of the water, you soaked too long; shorten the dip on the next one.",{"title":162,"text":163},"Layer the filling","On the third of the wrapper closest to you, lay three shrimp halves cut-side up in a row, then a piece of lettuce cupping a small tangle of noodles, cucumber, carrot and a generous layer of mint on top. Keep the pile compact — about three tablespoons of filling — and leave 3 cm bare at each side.",{"title":165,"text":166,"tip":167},"Roll tight","Lift the edge nearest you over the filling and tuck it snugly underneath, pulling back slightly so the roll tightens. Fold in both sides like an envelope, then continue rolling away from you until the seam seals itself — the finished roll should be firm, with the shrimp glowing through the paper.","Tension comes from that first tuck-and-pull, not from squeezing at the end. Rolls one and two are practice; it clicks fast.",{"title":169,"text":170},"Repeat and serve","Roll the remaining wrappers, placing finished rolls on a platter with small gaps so they cannot fuse together. 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