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Alkaline rice paper rolls recipe for beautiful skin
We've been looking for the solid non-sweet and not-so-salty snack all our life, because let’s face it – we're always hungry, but we don’t wanna be faaaaa. What’s the word … Read more
We've been looking for the solid non-sweet and not-so-salty snack all our life, because let’s face it – we're always hungry, but we don’t wanna be faaaaa. What’s the word again? We mean faaaat. We mean an elephant. Elephants are cute. You know what’s not cute – us in front of our computer, with our turtle posture, stuffing snickers and coffee down our throat and wishing we have no cellulite, but a flat belly. With some abs. But not too many abs, just slight ones. We want them to be a mystery, but not a mystery under fat.
We've heard about a guy, who hadn’t eaten anything in three years and was only praying to the sun. And had awesome abs. Well we don’t know about the latter, we've never actually seen him, we're just guessing that since he’s fasting for 3 years his abs would be showing. We admire him for being able to take the next step in evolution and make his cells produce their own chlorophyll and photosynthesize. It probably saves him a lot of time and money – not to buy and eat food.
If there was a snack from air, we would buy it and eat it, believe us. But since there isn’t such a thing we came up with these rice paper rolls. They’re vegan, gluten-free, alkaline, which means they’re practically enhanced air.
These rice paper rolls are surprisingly satisfying in those moments when you’re stressed and would kill someone if you don’t have anything to eat. They will save you and others.
Now we don’t have any rice paper anymore and we've been too lazy…no wait, what’s a fancier word than lazy, ah yes – BUSY!!! Yes, we've been too busy to go to the Asian shop, which is a 10 minute walk from our apartment to get rice papers from the friendly 80 years old Asian man who works there without saying a single word. Quite honestly we think he hates us. He’s always looking at us like we’re in a Kill Bill movie. And we only go to the Asian shop with the peaceful intention to buy groceries. We have never talked to him or did anything inappropriate. Imagine if we actually asked the old Asian guy on a date, like we secretly plan to since the day we've met him. Maybe that’s another reason why we haven’t bought rice paper for 2 months now. All that tension. Who understands men anyway.
We only understand that rice paper rolls are pretty much a solid snack.
These rice paper rolls are simple and take about 10-20 minutes to be prepared, depending on how many you might want to eat. We think 2 pieces of the rice paper rolls are good as a snack, so it would not be longer than 10 minutes.
If it does take you longer, it’s your fault and you’re extremely slow and should consider begging someone to make them for you. Just kidding.
Seriously just try – we sucked at the beginning as well. You can’t imagine how many rice papers took a trip to the trash, and then back to our plate. Just kidding again – we don’t use plates.
Time and experience made us wiser and talented-er and now we can make 5 rice paper rolls in 10 minutes, without even breaking one rice paper. Cheers to that!
- Yield: 5
- Prep: 20 minutes
Ingredients
- 5 rice papers
- 1 avocado
- 1 carrot
- 5 olives (black or green as you wish your Majesty!)
- spinach (a handful)
- arugula (a handful)
- basil (5-10 leaves)
- optional: additional herbs
Method
- First peel carrot and avocado, then cut carrot, avocado and olives into strips. Chop arugula, basil and spinach.
- Then comes the funny part. Making those rice papers soft. You'll need to put warm water in a deep round plate, that is bigger than the rice papers. We used our baking tray, filled it with warm water and put the rice paper into the water for 5-10 seconds. The rice paper shouldn't be too soft or too hard because it would break. So just keep it for 5 seconds in the water, make sure the whole surface is covered with water, take out and it should be good.
- Put the wet rice paper on a plate. In the middle of the rice paper start arranging the vegetables in proportions - a little bit of spinach and arugula, some basil, a little bit of carrot, avocado and olives. Make sure you don't overfill it, otherwise you would not be able to close the rolls and it would be a rice paper mess, not a rice paper roll.
- After you have everything in the middle roll the rice paper into a spring roll.
- And you're ready with the first one. For the next ones don't soak the rice paper in advance - it will fall apart. Repeat as much as you want, maybe 5 times?
