Veggie Spring Rolls with Sweet Chili Sauce
Ingredients
Spring Rolls:
- 1 package of rice paper
- 1-3 tablespoons of coconut oil (depending on how many batches you need to cook the tofu in)
- Salt, pepper, and Tajin Clasico seasoning.
- Extra firm tofu, pressed, and cut into julienne strips
- Cucumber, cut into julienne strips
- Red pepper, cut into julienne strips
- Carrot, cut into julienne strips
- Avocado, cut into julienne strips
- Baby Spinach
- Bean sprouts
- Cilantro
- Mint
Sweet Chili Sauce:
- 3 tablespoons Sriracha chili sauce
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- Squeeze of lime juice
Instructions
Sweet Chili Sauce:
- In a small bowl, whisk together the sriracha, honey, soy sauce, and lime juice. Set aside until ready. If you want a thicker sauce, put the ingredients in a small pan, over low-medium heat, and simmer until you get the thickness you like best.
Spring Roll:
- Get all of your ingredients cut up, julienne style. You can simply tear a little mint and cilantro when ready to use, so no need to cut up the herbs.
- Season the tofu, on both sides, generously with salt, pepper, and Tajin clasico.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of coconut oil (of whatever oil you like best) over medium-high heat. Add the tofu and sauté until the tofu is nicely browned on all sides. If you pan is not large enough, cook the tofu in batches. Once finished cooking, put the tofu on a paper-towel lined plate to cool.
- Get a bowl or shallow pan filled with warm water.
- Dunk the rice paper, one at a time, into the warm water, 3 times. Gently shake off any excess water, and gently place the rice paper on the surface you're going to roll on.
- Put all of your ingredients in the middle of the rice paper, slightly above the center. Make sure to have your spinach stalks ripped off, or facing inward before rolling, otherwise the stalks will poke through the rice paper.
- Now fold the top of the rice paper so it covers more than half of your ingredients.
- Gently fold the right and left side of the rice paper in towards the middle.
- With a firm, yet gentle hand, roll the ingredients towards the bottom of the rice paper. You want to ensure you are rolling the ingredients in the rice paper tight enough to hold together, but not too tight, otherwise the ingredients will tear through the rice paper.
- Give the spring roll a final roll over the remaining rice paper. It should look like a mini, see-through, burrito.
- Gently place your finished Spring Rolls on a plate as you continue to finish the rest.
- Serve the Spring Rolls with your favorite sauce, dunk, and enjoy!
Notes
1-2 hours before hand, cut tofu into 4 equal slabs. Place the tofu on a cutting board. Cover the tofu with a paper towel, then top with a large cookie/baking sheet.
Put some really heavy books or pots on top of the cookie sheet.
This will help drain any excess water from the tofu, so it will crisp up nicely when you sauté it. When you are ready to cook...pat the tofu dry on both sides, then season heavily with salt, pepper, and whatever other seasonings you like. I really liked using Tajin Clasico for this recipe. Cut the 4 slabs of tofu into square logs. The size doesn't really matter, I think I did a ½ thick. Once your tofu is cut, you are ready to sauté them in a pan! Don't be discouraged if it takes you a couple of times to find the right balance between rolling too tightly and not tight enough. Most rice paper is sold in large quantities...so if you fuck up...you'll most likely have plenty of rice paper leftover to roll with.
Put some really heavy books or pots on top of the cookie sheet.
This will help drain any excess water from the tofu, so it will crisp up nicely when you sauté it. When you are ready to cook...pat the tofu dry on both sides, then season heavily with salt, pepper, and whatever other seasonings you like. I really liked using Tajin Clasico for this recipe. Cut the 4 slabs of tofu into square logs. The size doesn't really matter, I think I did a ½ thick. Once your tofu is cut, you are ready to sauté them in a pan! Don't be discouraged if it takes you a couple of times to find the right balance between rolling too tightly and not tight enough. Most rice paper is sold in large quantities...so if you fuck up...you'll most likely have plenty of rice paper leftover to roll with.