Vietnamese veg parcels
A Vietnamese dinner made with chicken. Ready in about 40 minutes. Difficulty: medium.
- 15 minPrep (about)
- 25 minCook (about)
- 40 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- MediumDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredient
- 1 chicken breast
Fresh & other
- 3 ½ oz rice flour pancake
- 1 ¾ oz rice noodles
- 1 carrot
- 1 cucumber
- 1 red bell pepper Shopping tip: Bell pepper (UK recipes call it pepper).
- To serve lettuce
- To serve cilantro
- To serve mint Shopping tip: Fresh mint leaves.
- Juice of ½ lime
- 1 red chile Shopping tip: Fresno or red jalapeño for mild (seeds out); Thai bird's eye for hot.
Sauces & oils
- ¼ cup fish sauce
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Soak your rice fl our pancakes according.
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Do it to pack instructions.
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Do it in boiling water for 30 secs.
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Remove and cool on kitchen paper.
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Soak your rice noodles according to pack instructions.
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Drain.
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Cut them into ¾ inch strips.
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Lay rice pancake on a board plus arrange some rice noodles third of, chicken, vegetables and herb leaves about a your way up, leaving a ½ inch edge at your side.
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Fold the sides over the vegetables.
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Roll up lengthways to make a cigar.
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Store in your fridge, covered using moist kitchen paper.
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Keep going for up to 1 day.
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Mix the ingredients for the dipping sauce.
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Put into a bowl.
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Arrange your rolls on a plate along using the leaves and herbs.
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To eat, wrap every roll in a piece of lettuce using a herb sprig and dunk in the sauce.
On the side: Cucumber salad
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (10 min)
- Thinly slice the cucumbers.
- Toss with the rice vinegar and a pinch of salt. Let it sit a few minutes.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.