I saw brown rice paper at my local Asian grocery store and needed to try it out…by making Gỏi Cuốn, Vietnamese fresh spring rolls, summer rolls, rice paper rolls, or however, you know it. I prepared all my favorite ingredients and we rolled with the brown rice paper.

Besides looking kind of like a condom when wet, it tasted the way rice paper should taste to me. I felt like it was more sensitive and ripped a little easier. The girls noticed that too. At the end of the day, it worked with all of our favorite Gỏi Cuốn ingredients and dipped in the addicting hoisin peanut sauce.

I also compared the Nutrition Facts of the Brown Rice Paper with the regular Rice Paper and didn’t see anything that made me believe the Brown Rice Paper would be better for you. If there is, LMK! However, if you’re a brown rice fan or curious, go check it out!

Gỏi Cuốn Ingredients:
Pork Belly, thinly sliced
Shrimp, halved
Brown Rice Paper
Thin vermicelli noodles
Red Leaf Lettuce, washed and cleaned
Mint and Perilla Leaves, washed and cleaned
English cucumber, seeded and sliced
Shrimp Chips

Protein Ingredients:
1 pound shrimp, peeled, deveined
1 pound pork belly
1 teaspoon salt
1 shallot

Hoisin Peanut Sauce Ingredients:
1/2 cup Hoisin sauce
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup water, more to smooth out the sauce
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
2 teaspoons Sriracha sauce, more or less to taste
Salt to taste
Crushed peanuts, for topping
Chili garlic sauce, for topping

Steps:
1. Add all the hoisin peanut sauce ingredients to a small saucepan and stir over medium heat until well combined.
2. Add salt and shallot to a pot and bring to a boil. Add pork belly and simmer for an hour or until tender. Remove the pork belly and put it into an ice bath. Add shrimp to the boiling water and cook for 5 minutes until the shrimp is cooked. Remove the shrimp and put them into an ice bath. Thinly slice the pork belly and peel and halve the shrimp.
3. Prepare noodles, veggies, herbs, proteins, and peanut sauce.
4. Roll

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