Wrapping it up with rice paper

[dcarch]

Rice paper is easy and fun to use. Whatever ingredients and leftovers you have just wrap it up. You don't always have to have a recipe.

What have you made with rice paper?

A few I have made:

Beef Pancake

Deep fried rice paper and garden tomatoes.

Chicken “Dumplings”

Spring Roll with Snow crab meat, on Squash and Black Rice

dcarch

[ElsieD]

That looks amazing. Are the chicken dumplings deep fried?

[LynnFoodies]

Fantastic! They all looked very tempting! You did wrap them well!

[stuartlikesstrudel]

I don't think I've ever used rice paper past the obvious rice paper roll idea... I think i might try 'pancakes' for dinner. Looks like you may have used a waffle iron to cook them? I love that!

[dcarch]

Thanks everyone.

Rice paper can be steamed, fried and deep fried, depending on the recipes.

However, using a waffle iron, I may be the first one. LOL!

It is so quick, easy using a non-stick waffle iron.

dcarch

Edited July 24, 2012 by dcarch (log)

[TylerK]

I wish I'd seen this before frustrating myself close to tears over the weekend trying to make gluten free dumplings for a dinner party. No matter what the composition of my dough, I could not keep it from cracking. Thanks for the great idea.

Edited July 24, 2012 by TylerK (log)

[Nasi_Campur]

Beautifully designed plates and concepts. Bravo!

[Anna N]

Love your ideas especially since rice paper lasts "forever". Keeping bread, rolls, wraps etc. in the house (and fresh) when you live alone is a real challenge. I always have rice paper on hand.

[sparrowgrass]

Wow, just wow!! Can you tell us what is in the waffle ones?

[Will]

Don't have too many brilliant ideas, but one tip that may be helpful to some: when deep-frying rice paper (for example, when making Viet style deep-fried rice-paper spring rolls (imperial rolls)), I've heard hydrating the rice paper in beer rather than water will give crispier results. Aside from spring rolls, deep-frying rice paper gives a nice texture which could make a good "skin" for a lot of things.

And this is probably obvious to many, but... don't put anything made with soaked rice paper in the fridge afterwards. It will ruin the texture.