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[GF Lover]

Hubs found me some gluten-free spring roll wrap things. I think you make a Chinese food in them.

Since I don't like Chinese food, I was wondering what I can do with them. I've never had one so I don't know how they taste. I also don't know how to cook them or if you eat them right out of the package.

Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks

Colleen

[tarnalberry]

What is it you don't like about chinese food? spring rolls are rice paper wrapped around veggies (and sometimes rice noodles). so, it's rice and veggies.... you can dip it in any variety of sauces...

[mushroom]

Or you can make a chopped filling for them including things like shrimp, roll them up and shallow pan saute them for a crisp hot version. It helps with the rolling if you place them on a square of parchment paper and roll with that because they can be a big fragile. (You have to dip them in very hot water to soften first.)

[GF Lover]

What is it you don't like about chinese food?

I don't care for the whole sweet and sour thing. Yup, I lump all chinese food into sweet and sour, lol. I know that is a mistake so maybe I will venture into the dark side

Colleen

[love2travel]

You do not need to make them Chinese. Many (including myself) prefer spring rolls in the Vietnamese, Malaysian or Thai way. You need not make a sweet and sour sauce at all - there are thousands upon thousands of other sauces. As mentioned above, you can add all sorts of things by adding any proteins/fillings you want from shrimp to chicken to pork to beef to vegetarian. You can make a coconut peanut sauce or a Thai hot and spicy sauce.

http://thaifood.abou...springrolls.htm
http://www.food.com/...ing-rolls-44177
http://chefmichaelsm...i-peanut-sauce/

[mushroom]

I don't care for the whole sweet and sour thing. Yup, I lump all chinese food into sweet and sour, lol. I know that is a mistake so maybe I will venture into the dark side

Colleen

That's the last thing I think of when I think Chinese, because it is such a hump getting over the soy sauce And the chilis with Thai food. And the legumes and nightshades with mediterranean. Just as well my family was British and my taste for more exotic developed (to the extent it did) later.

[kareng]

You can really wrap anything you want in them:

Left over salad & dip in dressing
Steak and grilled peppers or even mashed potatoes or cheese
Chicken and dip in BBQ sauce
Cream cheese and strawberries dip in vanilla yogurt

[JNBunnie1]

Baklava.....

[mushroom]

Baklava.....

You have a method there, Bunnie???

[JNBunnie1]

No, I've just read people say they've used those rice paper rolls to make baklava.
Always a good idea!

[Adalaide]

I have had great success in the past with converting The Pioneer Woman's recipes. I would just use http://thepioneerwom...011/12/baklava/ and use the paper for it. I would of course butter between every layer, not every other. I would also use a round pan for ease. Now that the idea is in my head I have the inkling to go buy a bag of nuts and do this.

[tarnalberry]

True, I tend to do the vietnamese style. So, it's the rice paper, shredded lettuce (or cabbage), Julienne carrots (and/or bell beppers), chicken or shrimp, rice noodles (cold), wrapped up. I like to dip them in peanut sauce, myself.

[mushroom]

I have had great success in the past with converting The Pioneer Woman's recipes. I would just use http://thepioneerwom...011/12/baklava/ and use the paper for it. I would of course butter between every layer, not every other. I would also use a round pan for ease. Now that the idea is in my head I have the inkling to go buy a bag of nuts and do this.

Now for the big question: Do you moiston the rice paper or not before you butter it?

[Adalaide]

Now for the big question: Do you moiston the rice paper or not before you butter it?

I would wet them. Since phyllo dough is wet, I would assume we would need wet wrappers. Although, I think I would butter them, then wet them. Cause it would be easier.

[GF Lover]

Do you get them wet no matter what you put in?

Do you always fry them? Can you eat them raw? Baked?

Colleen