Here are the recipes we made on Friday for our class party.
Fresh Lemonade
Ingredients
- 4 cups fresh lemon juice (about 24 lemons)
- 7 cups soda water
- 1 cup sugar
- Ice, for serving
- Chopped mint
Preparation
· Pour the lemon juice into a large container.
· Add the sugar, then stir until it all dissolves.
· Add chopped mint
· Now add the water (or soda water).
· Just before you are read to serve, add some ice to keep it cool.
· Stir well then pour into cups and drink it up!
Rice paper rolls
Ingredients:
Common mint
Vietnamese mint
Tofu
Rice noodles
Rice paper
Carrot
Cucumber
Sprouts
Method:
· Chop your tofu into long thin finger-sized slices.
· Put them in a bowl and pour over a dash of soy sauce and a dash of lemon juice. Sit them aside to marinate.
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· Chop your cucumber and carrot into skinny slices.
· Pull the leaves off your mint and discard the stalks.
· Wash lettuce and mint.
· Arrange your ingredients on a plate with the noodles so you are ready to make your rolls.
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· Fill a large bowl with warm water.
· Dip a sheet of rice paper into the water for about 10 seconds, just until it starts to soften (if you leave it in too long it becomes very tricky to handle).
· Put your sheet onto a chopping board so it is flat.
· Put a small amount of noodles onto one end of your rice paper. Add one stick each of tofu, cucumber, carrot and couple of leaves of either type of mint.
· Fold in the sides and roll it up tight!
· Put it onto your platter and start again!
Super-duper Dipping Sauce
1 tablespoons of lemon juice
1 clove of crushed garlic
3 tablespoons of soy sauce
1 teaspoon of fish sauce
1 teaspoon of lilly-pilly jelly (or sweet chilli sauce)
· Chop your garlic as finely as you can.
· In a small bowl mix fish sauce, water, lemon juice, crushed garlic and a teaspoon of lilly pilly jelly.
· Stir it well. Taste it to check that it tastes salty, spicy, sour and a little bit sweet.
· If not, add more lemon juice (sour), garlic (spicy), soy sauce (salty) or jelly (sweet), until it is just right.
