Crispy pork & vegetable rolls
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Crispy pork & vegetable rolls

Crispy Thai rolls with pork and vegetables - great for a starter. You can make these ahead and freeze

Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 6, with other dishes

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Takes 40-50 minutes

Freezable

FREEZE Can be frozen

Method

  1. Blend the cornflour with 3 tbsp cold water to make a paste to stick the rolls together. Put the noodles in a heatproof bowl, pour over boiling water to cover and leave for 3 minutes. Drain. Cool under running cold water, then drain well, tip into a large bowl and snip into small pieces with scissors.
  2. Add the pork, garlic, carrot, mushrooms, coriander, soy sauce, sugar and pepper. Mix together well with your hands.
  3. Take one wrapper out of the pack and put it on a board (keep the rest covered or they will dry out). Cut the wrapper in four and put a heaped teaspoon of filling onto one side of each square, brushing the sides with paste as you go (1), fold over the end, then the two sides (2) and roll up (3). Make the rest in the same way. Cover and chill until needed.
  4. Heat about 3cm of oil in a wok or frying pan, add half the rolls and fry until crisp and golden, about 2-3 minutes. Drain on kitchen paper and cook the rest. Serve on a platter with lettuce leaves, mint sprigs and a small bowl of dipping sauce. Get each guest to take a leaf of lettuce and a mint spring, then wrap it around a roll with a slick of sauce - a lovely combination.

307 kcalories, protein 7g, carbohydrate 36g, fat 16 g, saturated fat 2g, fibre 1g, sugar 3g, salt 2.11 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2002.

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  • 18 October 2009

    JoeJoeShmo rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Easy to do and tasty for all the family.

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  • 24 October 2009

    Emma rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Delicious!! Made it for the first time for six guest and it went down a treat. I haven't it given 5 stars because i found the folding of the spring rolls tricky!! My tip would be not to over fill them and use larger sheets :) definitly wrap them up in lettuce to serve.

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  • 22 January 2010

    Philippa rated this recipe

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  • 12 June 2010

    PamelaFHughe commented on this recipe

    Using the spring roll pastry and cutting it into 4 pieces as advised makes the wrapping quite thin. I think that a thicker covering of spring roll pastry would be more effective. In fact, as it looks very much like filo pastry perhaps this would work equally well. When I cooked them according to the instructions some of the filling was coming through the thin layer which would have been avoided if the squares had been larger..

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  • 09 May 2011

    julie rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    made these tonight for a starter and they were very easy and tasted great,but used filo pastry.

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  • 04 August 2011

    jandyrew commented on this recipe

    Made these the day before a dinner party using Filo Pastry and leaving in the fridge overnight covered with clingfilm.....big mistake as the filo all bonded together and the rolls wouldn't separate!!! Arrggghhhh!! I emptied all the mixture out and bought some 'Soutades'(a swedish empty mini pastry cups precooked) and filled them with fillings fried, disaster averted and filling was very tasty with a dash of fresh mint on top.

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  • 17 August 2011

    Foodoholic rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Very Good

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  • 16 June 2013

    Lucyxxx rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    These were brilliant, taste-wise. However I had a problem with some of them ripping during the cooking process. I would therefore suggest that you ensure you don't over-fill the pastries. This may be because I used filo pastry instead of spring roll wrappers. It is absolutely necessary to cover the pastry with a damp towel at all times until you need it. Trust me. Also, if you want the rolls to be crispier, I felt that mine could have done with a few minutes baking in the oven as they were a little soft and slimy from the oil in the pan. This caused some of them to break apart. Overall, these rolls were a huge hit in my house. The sweet chilli sauce for dipping is an absolutely necessary asset.

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  • 16 June 2013

    Lucyxxx commented on this recipe

    I used these as a starter for a Thai night. For a main course, I would recommend this gorgeous Thai red curry: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3791/thai-red-curry

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Difficulty and servings

Moderately easy

Serves 6, with other dishes

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Takes 40-50 minutes

Freezable

FREEZE Can be frozen

A very impressive starter

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp cornflour
  • 50g vermicelli rice noodles
  • 100g minced pork
  • 1 garlic clove , finely chopped
  • 1 carrot , grated
  • 50g oyster mushrooms , finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp finely chopped coriander
  • 2 tbsp light soy sauce
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • ¼ tsp ground white peppercorns
  • 7-8 spring roll wrappers (try an oriental foodshop, if you find them, buy extra and freeze)
  • vegetable oil , for frying
  • iceberg lettuce or cos lettuce and mint sprigs, to serve
  • sweet chilli sauce , for dipping
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307 kcalories, protein 7g, carbohydrate 36g, fat 16 g, saturated fat 2g, fibre 1g, sugar 3g, salt 2.11 g

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