fresh spring rolls with peanut-lime sauce
I’ve decided a few things over the past few days.
1. If you wake up at 4:30 in the morning it is totally acceptable to eat dinner at 3 p.m.
2. Showering on a daily basis is overrated
3. Having good friends that are 30 + years older than you has many perks (i.e. same bedtimes and a true love for the early bird special.)
Speaking of early birds. Check out some of our morning harvest!
Taylor and I were up and at ’em bright and early today. We harvested a bunch of lovely goodies to bring to our third farmers market. Our farm stand is quickly filling up with new items every week!
Kale, collards, cilantro, and radishes!
And lovely lettuce and garlic scapes.
We feel like proud parents selling our produce at the farmers markets. This whole journey has truly been a labor of love. We have had many challenges (and surely a LOT more to come) However, now that some of our hard work is finally showing its lovely face, we could not be more stoked!
We were invited to a free wine tasting after our farmers market today. We thought this was the perfect excuse to clink our glasses together and celebrate another day of farming!
(BTW I’m not pulling a Michael Jackson, I’m just resting my hand on my belt buckle! I swear!)
Between waking up at 4:30, working the farmers market, and wine tasting, we were able to come home and eat “dinner” at 3:00 today.
This was more of an appetizer but it really hit the spot! This would taste amazing with a side of quinoa salad or a rice dish of some sort. Either way, it was delicious! Dig in.
Fresh Spring Rolls With Peanut-Lime Sauce
Prep Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins Serves: 4-6
- 1/4 of a small head of purple cabbage, shredded
- 2 carrots, sliced thinly
- 5 radishes, sliced thinly
- 1 small ripe avocado, diced
- 1 small bunch of cilantro, thick stems removed and diced
- For the peanut-lime sauce:
- 2 scallions minced (white and light green parts only)
- 2 TBS sesame oil
- 1/4 cup natural peanut butter
- 1/2-1 TBS fresh ginger, minced
- 2 TBS low sodium tamari
- 3 TBS fresh lime juice
- 2 tsp honey or pure maple syrup
- 2 TBS water
- Rice Paper (also called rice wrapper) 6-8 pieces
Preparation
- Slice all ingredients for the filling and put them into separate bowls.
- Combine all ingredients for peanut-lime sauce and whisk together until smooth (this works well with an immersion blender, but a hand whisk will work fine as well.)
- Fill a large pot with warm water. Dip rice paper into the water until it becomes soft (about 15 seconds)
- Place rice paper on a plate and evenly scoop the filling into the center of the paper. Drizzle with peanut-lime sauce. Fold rice paper together like a burrito and enjoy!
Notes
Use this recipe as a guide and adjust measurements and seasonings to your liking.
I see the return of the garlic scapes in your pictures. Since your last post, I am now seeing them everywhere. I love reading your posts and meeting the farmers behind the market. A day at the farmers market is always a day well spent. I hope you guys enjoyed your wine tastings and early dinner. You sure deserved it after all that hard work.
As for the spring rolls, I have never had them with peanut sauce before. I usually end up eating them with a sweet and tangy spicy sauce, but I will have to put your peanut and lime sauce on my to do list.
thanks for the lovely comment! The peanut sauce is a MUST. We love it!
I’m so dang proud of y’all. I hope y’all are proud of yourselves, too!
Thank you SO much! We feel pretty good!
This sounds amazing! Especially that sauce. Your farmers market stand looks so adorable, too!
thanks!
Love the colours in your spring rolls and your farmers market produce! Those radishes are beautiful!
Your produce is gorgeous, great job! I’m going to have to take a trip to Oregon sometime and stop by your stand. I’m loving the sauce for these rolls! Sounds like a perfect meal to end such a productive day!
you have a place to stay if you make it to Oregon!!! Bring the pup!
I mean, if you wake up at 4:30, you must have to go to bed at like…8 or 9. So dinner at 3 is totally reasonable!
And YES for selling your haul at the farmer’s markets! you must be so proud!
Look at all those beautiful radishes! These wraps are beautiful, too. I think I need to overcome my fear of rice paper so I can make them!
Showering daily is definitely highly overrated. I love seeing you and Taylor with your post-work beer or wine. You definitely put in the hard work to deserve relaxation! Your spring rolls look so tasty and I’d probably spoon-feed myself that peanut sauce!
Love the Fresh Spring Rolls with Peanut-Lime Sauce recipe… especially not having to cook it! And I can boil water so that works. My husband is the cook in the family and I enjoy chopping veggies. This recipe is right up my alley and easy to do. We do a lot of entertaining and my friends will be impressed when I tell them I “made the appetizers.” We have a food manufacturing company specializing in appetizers and I do all the promotion my husband does the cooking and creating.
Thanks for a wonderful new recipe to add to our entertaining cookbook (or should I say “no cook book”
Regards,
Rosana Santos Calambichis, President
BIGCHEFONLINE.com
thanks for the lovely comment Rosana!
Delicious! but is there any lime in your peanut lime sauce?
Yes! Thanks for the catch. I just updated the recipe. It calls for 3 Tablespoons of lime juice! Thanks again for noticing that.