These are a great addition for easily adding vegetables to your diet in a fun way. Depending on the dipping sauce they can satisfy either sweet or salty cravings with no guilt. 

If traveling/bringing to work I find it easiest to keep them wrapped like a burrito and eat them as such. Optionally you could slice them into traditional sushi pieces but run the risk of the ingredients falling out all over the place. Basically pick your poison: messy pieces or something that looks like a veggie filled condom. Up to you.

They key to this recipe is the rice paper sheets. If you have a Korean market near you GO. You’ll save yourself like 90% of the price of the rice paper in stores. If not, most grocery stores keep them in the international aisle.

My favorite combo is cucumber, carrot, avocado, lettuce, sprouts, and tofu. My favorite dipping sauces are simple: mango ginger, tahini soy (I use liquid aminos),  peanut butter sauce or sweet chili sauce.

YOU WILL NEED:

• 1 cucumber
• Avocado
• Lettuce - butter lettuce is yummy in these
• Carrot
• Sprouts
• Crispy tofu

METHOD

• Preheat your oven and make crispy tofu.
• Slice your vegetables into long, thin strips.
• Either run your rice paper under warm water or fill a dish with warm water and submerse your sheet into the water. Transfer to a ceramic plate. Do not try to roll on a bamboo cutting board as the wet rice paper will stick.
• Add lettuce, veggies, sprouts and tofu to the middle of the rice paper and roll like a burrito. If you want a larger spring roll you can position two sheets like the shape of a Venn diagram and then use the same method.

MANGO GINGER SAUCE

• 1 cup mango
• 1 inch ginger
• 2 tbsp agave or coconut sugar
• Pinch Himalayan sea salt
• Blend all ingredients

TAHINI SOY SAUCE

• 1 tbsp tahini
• 1 tsp liquid aminos or soy sauce
• Juice of ½ lemon
• Whisk all ingredients together with a for

PEANUT SAUCE

• ½ cup peanut butter
• 1 tbsp liquid aminos
• 2 tbsp sesame oil
• 1 tsp agave
• 1 clove garlic
• Juice of 1 lime
• Blend all ingredients

ADAPTED PEANUT BUTTER FOR US LAZY FOLKS

• 1 tbsp peanut butter
• 1 tsp liquid aminos or soy sauce
• Juice of ½ lime
• ½ tsp agave (optional)

Sweet chili sauce is another simple, easy option to dip on its own.

Personally I like them best one day after being made when they’ve had time to get a little crispy in the fridge, but will eat them right after making them as well. I don’t recommend letting them sit for more than two days as they get very hard and tough to bite.