Goi Cuon (Vietnamese Salad Roll) - A Multi-flavor dish

Goi cuon, a popular dish in Ho Chi Minh city and the southern provinces, because it is delicious, nutritious, eye-catching. It was recorded trophy " Food carrying value of regional cuisine " by Organization of Asian record.


In Vietnamese cuisine, probably not any dish "pleasant" as Goi cuon. It can be used as snack or food. Perhaps, Goi cuon has become indispensable dish on the menu of Vietnamese restaurants abroad.
The French called Goi cuon "Rouleaux de Printemps" - the Goi cuon of the spring, may be the interesting combination of Goi cuon's colors. Taking a bite, feeling a tough of rice sheet, greasy of bacon mixing with sweet taste of boiled shrimp, a little salty taste of sauce, cool and pungency of vegetables. All that things create a accompaniment smelling the highs and lows of taste.


Goi cuon includes many components: plastic roll, tiger prawns or ground shrimp, bacon, spices(garlic, salt, sugar), Bun, bean sprouts, salads, basil, chives leaves. Rice sheet is indispensable raw material, it is made from rice flour. Rice after being washed, soaked in water, grinded, made into water flour, coated on a cloth stretched over the mouth pot of boiling water. Rice sheet is picked up off the cloth, covered up blisters bamboo to dry in the sun. When it dried, it is removed from the blister, cut rim and protected from moisture.


Boiled bacon, take out and immerse in cold water,then cut into thin sliced. Shrimp is cleaned and boiled with lemon to eliminate smells fishy, then peeled and splited. The sauce of Goi cuon is soy processed from fermented black beans, white sweet bean, fresh coconut milk, tamarind juice, minced garlic, roasted peanuts, roasted sesame seeds, minced chillies, cooking oil, chopped purple onion. Vegetables, spices includes tens basil, cucumbers, carrots, pickled beets,etc.

A special dish combining multiple raw material that will give you a new feeling about Vietnamese cuisine. Do you want to learn how to make this dish right from Vietnamese people? If you are interested, Aroundvn will write a tutorial about this dish for you can enjoy at home.