Thai Spring Rolls Pa Pia Tod Food

THAI SPRING ROLLS (PA PIA)

Steps:

• Soak cellophane noodles in warm water for 5 minutes; drain, and cut into 2" lengths; set aside.
• In small frying pan, stir-fry garlic and cilantro for a few seconds.
• Pour into a large bowl and mix with crab, pork, eggs, carrots, onions, fish sauce, pepper, sugar, salt, and cellophane noodles.
• Separate spring roll wrappers.
• Place a wrapper with one pointed edge toward you.
• On each corner, put a little of the egg mixture to seal edges of the spring roll.
• Put 2 tbsp of the meat mix 1/3 of the way down.
• Fold the closest edge over, then the right and left sides, then roll closed.
• Place rolls seam side down until ready to fry, not letting them touch each other.
• Fry up to 3 at a time in hot oil until golden brown; about 3 minutes on each side.
• Serve with sweet and sour sauce, or my recipe for Thai Cucumber Sauce (Nam Chim Taeng Kwa).

THAI SPRING ROLLS

Steps:

• Soak bean thread noodles in warm water for 10 minutes, drain, and cut into approximately 1" sections.
• Mix ground pork, noodles, vegetables, and seasonings in a large bowl.
• Place 2 tsp of filling in corner of spring roll wrap, roll to middle, fold in side corners, use the beaten egg to seal the top corner as you finish rolling the spring roll.
• Deep-fry the spring rolls in batches so that they don't stick together, and drain on papertowels. Serve while still hot with Sweet chili sauce for chicken (found in most Asian food stores).
• Alternatively, freeze the rolls prior to deep-frying. Fry when needed, and they will be just as good as if you had rolled them that day.

CRISPY THAI SPRING ROLLS RECIPE

Steps:

• Heat the vegetable oil in a large wok over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, then add the chicken mince and stir fry until cooked through (around 2-3 minutes).
• Add the bean sprouts, carrot, baby corn and spring onion and mix thoroughly.
• Add the fish sauce, oyster sauce and sugar and stir.
• Finally add the glass noodles and stir through until ingredients are evenly mixed and the liquid has mostly evaporated.
• Lay out one spring roll pastry or wrapper on a clean surface (smooth side down). If using a square wrapper, have one of the corners facing towards you.
• Place a scoop of filling in one corner of the wrapper. Fold the bottom corner of the wrapper up and over the filling, pressing in firmly to remove any air pockets. Keep rolling up to the centre of the wrapper.
• Rub water over the top edges of the wrapper, then fold in the left and right sides and keep rolling up tightly.
• Heat the canola oil in the wok over a medium heat, ready to deep fry. Slide each spring roll into the wok slowly to avoid splashing. Deep fry until golden brown, around 4-6 minutes.
• Transfer to a strainer or place on kitchen paper towel to drain the oil.
• Serve with your chosen dipping sauce such as nuoc mam cham.

THAI SPRING ROLLS (PA PIA TOD)

Steps:

• - Prepare the noodles - soak noodles in cold water for approximately 10 minutes or until soft. Drain and with a pair of kitchen scissors, cut into 5-10cm lengths (approximate). - Finely chop the garlic and chop the chives into inch long pieces. Grate the carrot. - In a non-stick pan or wok, heat approximately 1 Tbsp oil. Fry the garlic for one minute and add the tofu. Add the noodles plus a little water, about 1 Tbsp. Add fish sauce, sugar and oyster sauce. - Stir through the carrot, chives and mung beans and turn off the heat. - On a dry surface, place one of the spring roll wrappers, shiny side down, rough side up. About 1 inch from one corner (if square) of the wrapper place approximately 1 Tbsp of noodle mix. - Fold corner up and over the ingredients and gently roll back towards you, pressing into the noddle mix so that it forms a sausage. - Roll 'sausage' over the wrapper to half way. Fold in the sides and continue to roll to the end. Use a little water to seal the package up. Repeat process of making spring rolls until all mixture is used. - Heat 1-2 cups of vegetable oil over a high heat. Oil should be smoking. Gently slide in the spring rolls, one by one being careful not to have the oil spit and splatter. - Turn after 20 seconds when the spring roll is browned. Remove from the oil when the other side is browned. - Drain on paper towel and serve with sweet chilli dipping sauce.