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Vietnamese Cold Rolls
A great detox dinner appetizer!
So you think detox food is boring? No en mi casa!
A few weeks ago we had a few friends to dinner. What we didn’t tell them was it was only going to be detox food.
We wanted to prove a point. Detox food can be tasty! Detox food can be satisfying! Detox food is healthy but not boring!
And guess what?
They LOVED it!
The wine obviously helped! But the food was nothing like they imagined detox cuisine to be like.
Not all detoxes or detox food has to be about apples, carrots, juice fasts and being deprived!
Detoxing is a gift to your body.
You need to care about the food you put in your body. You need to plan, to shop in advance, to be motivated and to care.
One of the tricks is to learn how to prepare this food in an imaginative way. It should be fun not a chore. Get on line. Bookmark some sites that you like the look of.
Our aim is to always make them simple, easy to make and easy to get the ingredients.
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So, why not try making Vietnamese cold rolls for your next dinner party?
All you need is the rice paper – you can buy from any Asian grocer and your own choice of fillings. The time is in the chopping! We used shredded lettuce, thinly sliced carrots, capsicum and spring onion, some pretty little Japanese mushrooms and prawns.
Other ingredients you could use are vermicelli rice noodles, snow peas, cucumber, tofu….really anything that you can wrap!
To spice them up we made a Thai coriander, garlic and chilli dipping sauce.
HINT: Put the soaked rice paper on a damp cloth napkin. It stops it from sticking together and makes it easier to roll the ingredients.
Our complete Detox Dinner menu
- vietnamese cold rolls
- gingery noodle soup
- pan fried Lubina fish
- mixed vegetables in coconut sauce and brown rice
- organic stewed apples with goat’s milk yoghurt and organic honey
