How to cook vegetable rolls

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Japanese cuisine is very popular these days. All over the world, people enjoy eating sushi and rolls prepared in a variety of ways. Sometimes the combination of ingredients in them may not be quite usual. For example, vegetable rolls deserve special attention. In addition to their low calorie content, these products are very beneficial for the human body. For example, we can consider some of the most interesting options for their preparation.

For true vegetarians

Vegetarians can make vegetable rolls using the following basic ingredients: 2 zucchini, a cucumber, a carrot, a bell pepper and some cream cheese.

To prepare such a dish you need:

1. Zucchini carefully cut lengthwise into even strips in the form of thin ribbons. For this, it is better to use a special knife.
2. Chop the rest of the vegetables into strips.
3. Smear a strip of zucchini with cheese. layer should notbe too fat.
4. Sprinkle some vegetable mixture on one end.
5. Twist the roll, gently wrapping the food in a thin ribbon with your fingers.
6. In order for the dish to retain its shape and not crumble, it must be pierced on the side with a small skewer or an ordinary toothpick.
7. Do the same with the rest of the zucchini strips.

It turns out original, but very tasty vegetable rolls. Juicy and fragrant, they will certainly appeal to lovers of he althy food. Basically, you don't have to be a vegetarian to cook them.

Vegetable rolls

If you slightly change the classic composition of the filling, you can get quite interesting vegetable rolls. In this case, for work you will need: 200 grams of rice and the same amount of Adyghe cheese, 1 avocado, 5 grams of s alt, 2 glasses of water, cucumber, half a bell pepper and 4 sheets of nori.

Such rolls are prepared in the usual way:

1. First, rice should be poured into a saucepan, and then pour it with water, s alt and cook for 20 minutes until all the liquid has boiled away. The finished product should cool gradually. This will take 1-2 hours.
2. The rest of the ingredients carefully cut into strips no more than 5 millimeters thick.
3. Spread a mat on the table and put a sheet of pressed seaweed on it.
4. Cover half of the entire surface of the nori with rice. So that the rolls do not crumble later, it must be well tamped.
5. On one side put some of the prepared stuffing.
6. Raise the edge of the mat and, helping with your fingers,tightly twist the products into a roll. Don't roll it too tight. In this case, the sheet may not withstand and tear. Leave 3 centimeters for gluing, and carefully cut off the rest of the nori with a sharp knife. In this form, the workpiece should lie down for at least 10 minutes.
7. Trim the edges with a knife, and then divide the rest of the roll into 6 equal parts.

These rolls are usually served with soy sauce, pickled ginger and wasabi.

Spring rolls

How else are vegetable rolls prepared? The recipe may differ not only in the composition of the filling. For example, they make wonderful “spring rolls” from thin rice pancakes. To do this, you need the following set of products: several rice pancakes, vegetables (carrots, cucumber, Chinese cabbage, sweet peppers, green onions, avocados, cilantro), a tablespoon of sesame seeds, soy sauce, a few drops of Tabasco, as well as sesame and olive oil.

The cooking process includes several successive steps:

1. Cut the vegetables into strips (not too thin) and put them in a bowl. Add seeds, Tabasco sauce and butter there. To make the taste of the filling more piquant, you can add a few drops of lemon juice. Mix the ingredients well.
2. Dip each pancake in water for 20 seconds, and then spread it on a cutting board. Put the filling in the center and wrap the product in an envelope.

Eat these rolls should be dipped in soy (or other) sauce. The composition of the filling can be anything. Everything will dependfrom your own taste preferences and the availability of specific products.

Rolls in dough

Using filo dough instead of nori sheets, you can make wonderful vegetable rolls. It is quite easy to do this at home. You will need the following ingredients: for 15 sheets of ready-made filo dough 300 grams of sprouted beans, 2 carrots, half a head of Chinese cabbage, 2 sweet peppers, 1 zucchini, a little vinegar for sushi and olive oil.

The method of preparing such rolls, in principle, remains the same:

1. First you need to do the stuffing. To do this, the beans should be washed and dried well, and the peeled carrots should be chopped using a special grater for Korean cuisine.
2. Put both products in one dish, pour over vinegar and marinate for at least a couple of hours.
3. Steam the pepper in the oven, and then remove the peel from it and remove all the seeds. Cut the remaining pulp arbitrarily.
4. Cabbage thinly crumble.
5. Cut the zucchini into even thin strips.
6. Spread the dough on a cutting board.
7. Put the prepared ingredients on it, and then roll everything in the classic way. The remaining edge of the "phyllo" must be moistened with water and glued.
8. Fry in oil over medium heat until a characteristic brown crust appears on the surface of the pancake.

Such rolls are nice to eat both hot and cold.

Mexican rolls

Using Mexican recipes, you can also cookdelicious vegetable roll. The photo of the finished dish looks very appetizing. For cooking, the following products are used: 1 tortilla, 10 grams of sweet pepper, 50 grams of soft processed cheese, 5 grams of chili sauce, and if desired, you can add some tomatoes, Iceberg lettuce, Crimean onion and Salsa sauce.

Preparing the dish very quickly:

1. First of all, you need to mix the chili sauce well with the cheese.
2. Spread the cake with the resulting mass.
3. Carefully cut all the vegetables into thin strips and place them in the very center of the tortilla.
4. Roll the cake into a roll, and then cut it into portions.

Usually these rolls are served with traditional Mexican Salsa sauce. You can buy it in advance at the store or cook it yourself. To do this, finely chop bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, herbs (parsley, basil, dill) and celery. Then it remains only to add a little ketchup and mix everything well.