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Vietnamese veg parcels

Vietnamese veg parcels

A Vietnamese dinner made with chicken. Ready in about 40 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 4 people +

Recipe makes 4

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.

  1. Soak your rice fl our pancakes according.

  2. Do it to pack instructions.

  3. Do it in boiling water for 30 secs.

  4. Remove and cool on kitchen paper.

  5. Soak your rice noodles according to pack instructions.

  6. Drain.

  7. Cut them into ¾ inch strips.

  8. 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.

  9. Fold the sides over the vegetables.

  10. Roll up lengthways to make a cigar.

  11. Store in your fridge, covered using moist kitchen paper.

  12. Keep going for up to 1 day.

  13. Mix the ingredients for the dipping sauce.

  14. Put into a bowl.

  15. Arrange your rolls on a plate along using the leaves and herbs.

  16. 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)
  1. Thinly slice the cucumbers.
  2. Toss with the rice vinegar and a pinch of salt. Let it sit a few minutes.

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Recipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.