Culture Kitchen SF

Instructions

• Step 1 To roast peanuts, set oven to 400 degrees. Set peanuts on sheet pan or cookie sheet and place in oven. Check every few minutes and wait for them to get golden. If they turn dark brown or black, they have been over cooked...discard and try again.
• Step 2 To poach the shrimp, put the whole shrimp with shells intact in cold water. Bring water and shrimp to a boil and remove from flame. Cover with a lid and let sit for roughly 6 minutes.
• Step 3 Beat eggs with a pinch of salt.
• Step 4 In a pan, heat the oil. Place a thin layer of egg in the pan, swirl the egg within the pan to achieve an even layer. When egg has cooked on the bottom, roll it up on the pan and slide it onto cutting board. Thinly slice into spirals, set aside.
• Step 5 Wash all the vegetables. Cut the cucumber into 2-3 inch long sticks, with skin or peeled.
• Step 6 Drain shrimp. When the shrimps are cool, peel the shrimp, including the tail. If the shrimp are large, cut the shrimp horizontally (like making two mirror images). Or if shrimps are slightly smaller, leave them whole.
• Step 7 Boil noodles according to instructions on package. When you drain the noodles be sure to run them under cold water. It helps prevent the noodles from sticking together.
• Step 8 To make the dipping sauce, put the water and peanut butter in a pot and warm on low heat, stirring until smooth. Add hoisin sauce and chili paste, then taste for flavor. Remove from heat and squeeze a whole lemon into the sauce.
• Step 9 Place roasted peanuts in mortar and pestle and crush peanuts. Allow the weight of pestle to gently crush the peanuts, you are just looking to break them into quarters. Add to peanut sauce.
• Step 10 To assemble rolls, put warm water into a bowl. Dip the wrappers into the water following the edge of the wrap. You do not need to fully submerge the wrappers, just gently cover the entire sheet with water and allow the wrapper to absorb the water once removed from the bowl. Before placing on your plate shake off any excess water.
• Step 11 Place lettuce on wrapper, a small handful of noodles, a few mint leaves, an egg crepe, cucumber slices, and carrot. Roll until half way closed. Fold in the sides of the wrap and add 3 pieces of shrimp, a few chives and finish rolling up.
• Step 12 Serve with the peanut dipping sauce and enjoy!