Rice Paper Snacks Filling With Purple Cabbages and Carrots

A fun way to enjoy colorful vegetables wrapped in rice paper to make delicious snacks.

Are you familiar with rice paper which is used to wrap food? Actually, I'm not familiar with rice paper, especially in Indonesia. Rice paper is not a food ingredient that makes Indonesians curious.

Culture influences how a group enjoys their food. In Indonesia, people prefer snacks served fried using flour but still crispy in texture. That's why in my area I'm not familiar with thin rice paper and it can't provide a crispy texture as thick as flour in general.

I've been curious about serving vegetables using rice paper for a long time. Especially because I love vegan food, food recipes using variations of rice paper always keep appearing on the homepage of my Pinterest account.

Finally, this time I made a snack that was quite simple to make from the main ingredient, namely rice paper. Indeed, it is quite simple, but it turns out I was quite overwhelmed and had difficulty conquering rice paper. Especially during the softening step and folding the filling with rice paper.

In this variation of the recipe, I tried to use an air-fryer to improve the overall texture of these snacks. Luckily, it worked quite well even though behind the scenes I had to repeat several times to fold the rice paper. If I failed, I definitely wouldn't be sharing this recipe. So, stay tuned!

THE INGREDIENTS

rice paper, about 8-10 sheets, according to the filling portion
a carrot
half of cabbage, you can use the purple one or cabbage in general
100 grams of tofu or 1/4 cup of chopped tofu
4 small cloves of red onion, or half of a large clove shallot, finely chopped
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 of teaspoon salt
1/2 of teaspoon coriander powder
(optional) 1 teaspoon of chili flakes

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS

STEP 1

Prepare all veggies and tofu. Finely chop purple cabbage, also carrot. For the cabbage, try to remove the hard stem before chopping the cabbage. Also, chop the tofu into small pieces but not finely chop to avoid the tofu will be crushed.

STEP 2

Preheat 2 tablespoons of oil. Then, stir-fry chopped garlic and onion until smells good.

STEP 3

Add chopped tofu and stir well for a while. Then, add all the chopped veggies. Stir well again for about 2-3 minutes. Add all seasoning before removing the mixture.

STEP 4

Dip rice paper in warm water. Make a circular motion to dip the rice paper so that the rice paper is easier to roll. At first, I dipped the rice paper for too long so I crushed the rice paper so it became soft. Requires extra precision. But once you do it, you will know when is the right time to dip and remove the rice paper from the warm water.

Then, place the dipped rice paper on the surface of a wooden cutting board. The wooden material will prevent the rice paper from becoming sticky to the surface of the cutting board.

STEP 5

Add stir-fried vegetables on top of rice paper at the bottom end. Set aside a bit of the bottom to fold over the vegetables. I added about 2 tablespoons of greens. Then, wrap the vegetables with veggies. First, fold the bottom side of the rice paper until it covers the top of the vegetables. Then, fold the right and left sides of the vegetables. Followed by rolling the rice paper from bottom to top.

On the first try, I made the roll shape too long. But on the second try, thankfully it formed into nice rice paper rolls.

SERVING SUGGESTIONS

Actually, we can immediately serve rice paper rolls without any cooking steps again. Because rice paper can already be eaten. Also, the vegetables are already cooked.

I know this snack will be strange without frying for my husband. So, I used the air-fryer to do the final touches on these rice paper rolls. Before placing it in the air-fryer basket, I smeared the entire surface of the rice paper rolls with oil. Then, I need 7 minutes more to air-fryer those all rice paper rolls.

My suggestion, if you have a non-stick frying pan, then it is a good choice to fry rice paper rolls with a little oil.

Glad, my first trying, can be good snacks in shapes. For the taste, no doubt. Oh, I didn't expect it, just eating two rice paper rolls made me so full!

Next time, I will try something different with these rice paper stocks that I still have a lot of in my pantry. Do you have any ideas for rice paper snacks? I'm happy to receive suggestions from you. And, until next, foodies. :)

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Anggrek Lestari

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