Spring rolls are a familiar dish for Vietnamese people during the Tet holiday. If you are tired of the traditional preparation methods, then in today’s cooking tips section, we will suggest over 20 delicious and simple spring roll recipes to change things up!
1. Vegetarian Spring Rolls
The Spring banquet usually consists of savory dishes, just thinking about it can be overwhelming. Therefore, TasteVN will suggest a delicious and light vegetarian spring roll recipe to balance your meal!
Vegetarian spring rolls can be made from various vegetables, wrapped in rice paper and fried until golden and crispy. Taking a bite instantly reveals the crunchy texture combined with the rich, creamy filling, and dipping it in chili sauce or ketchup makes it undeniably delicious!
2. Shrimp and Pork Spring Rolls
Double the deliciousness of traditional pork spring rolls with the enticing shrimp and pork filling. Along with the rich and fragrant taste of the meat, you can also sense a hint of natural sweetness from the shrimp. All wrapped in a crispy golden rice paper, dipping it in sweet and sour fish sauce or chili sauce is absolutely delightful.
3. Seafood Spring Rolls
This is a combination of fresh seafood and crispy rice paper. Seafood spring rolls are the perfect choice for seafood lovers. When eaten, you can feel the evenly flavored filling, and it’s even more enjoyable when dipped in sweet and sour chili, and served with fresh herbs, making it never boring.
4. Crispy Rice Paper Rolls
Crispy rice paper rolls combine the crunchiness of crispy rice paper with the rich flavor of potatoes and meat. With eye-catching colors, the preparation steps are incredibly quick. Therefore, this spring roll is often present at parties, where everyone gathers to make and enjoy together, symbolizing strong bonds, especially during Tet.
5. Shrimp Spring Rolls
If you are tired of the usual meat spring rolls, shrimp spring rolls will bring you a very fresh flavor. The chewy and sweet shrimp filling combined with the crispiness of the rice paper outside creates a delicious dish perfect for the Tet holiday.
6. Taro Spring Rolls
Another suggestion for a unique dish during Tet is taro spring rolls. The spring rolls have a crispy layer that wraps around the smooth and creamy taro filling inside, giving a delightful and delicious taste.
7. Fish Spring Rolls
Spanish Mackerel Spring Rolls
When meat spring rolls have become too familiar, you want to find something more special. Remember the coastal region of Phan Thiet with its attractive Spanish mackerel spring rolls, bringing a difference to familiar tastes. The mackerel is filleted and wrapped in rice paper with sweet and crunchy vegetables, and tasting it is an immediate experience of the ocean flavor spreading throughout your mouth.
Snakehead Fish Spring Rolls
Changing the filling to snakehead fish is also a quite interesting suggestion for the upcoming Tet menu. The snakehead fish is finely ground, seasoned, then wrapped with a layer of pastry and deep-fried until crispy.
Thanks to being finely ground and well-mixed, the spring roll filling is very fragrant and flavorful, combined with the crispy and fatty outer layer that will surely make your family fall in love!
Salmon Spring Rolls
Once in a while, there’s an occasion to gather, so it’s not too extravagant to enjoy a meal with salmon spring rolls. This novel twist not only helps everyone change their taste but is also good for health.
Spring rolls, when completed, are golden, crispy, and visually appealing, perfectly blended with the fragrant, rich salmon filling, dipped generously in mayonnaise and chili sauce, making them incredibly delicious!
Tuna Spring Rolls
Tuna is an excellent ingredient for health. For this reason, tuna spring rolls have emerged with the aim of bringing creativity to the dish while still ensuring nutritional value. The rich flavor from the tuna and cheese, the crispy outer layer, and the fresh accompanying vegetables promise to provide you with an extraordinary taste experience.
Snakehead Fish Spring Rolls
If you can’t eat seafood, you can consider snakehead fish spring rolls; the taste is just as delicious as other fillings. The spring rolls are crispy with a sweet and fragrant fish filling, and there’s also delicious shrimp meat and rich egg, which is really appealing, isn’t it?
Barramundi Spring Rolls
Barramundi spring rolls are made from barramundi fish, shiitake mushrooms, and enoki mushrooms, which helps users not feel bored while enjoying.
Taking a bite, you will feel the light sweetness of the mushrooms and fish, intertwined with a hint of spiciness from ginger and chili. The creamy sauce enhances the deliciousness of the dish, making it even more attractive for the Tet holiday.
8. Fruit Spring Rolls
The name may sound unusual, but TasteVN guarantees that fruit spring rolls will be an incredibly perfect dish for you to prepare for the Tet banquet. The outside is coated with a golden layer of breadcrumbs, while the inside is a mixture of sweet and fragrant fruits, lightly sour, perfectly blended with rich mayonnaise sauce, extremely delicious!
9. Sweet Potato Spring Rolls
Spring rolls are usually wrapped with pork and taro, but you can completely change it up with a sweet potato filling while still keeping the basic flavor intact. Unlike taro, you will also experience the buttery, sweet aroma of sweet potatoes. Check out the recipe below to make it!
10. Potato Spring Rolls
Potato spring rolls are a dish that brings simplicity from the ingredients to the preparation method. The fragrant potatoes, crispy spring roll wrappers, and a dipping sauce that is very appetizing, along with the addition of sweet corn, make this dish never boring.
No need for complicated ingredients like meat or mushrooms; just potatoes are enough to create a delicious and unique spring roll.
11. Corn Spring Rolls
If you are a vegetarian or simply tired of meat dishes during Tet, you can immediately consider corn spring rolls to change the flavor for yourself and your family.
This dish is made from young corn, carrots, and tofu, giving you a sweet and fragrant flavor that is very appealing. The making process is extremely quick and simple; check out the suggested recipe below!
12. Cheese Spring Rolls
Cheese spring rolls are an easy dish to make, but they are very delicious, especially for cheese lovers. The crunchy and fatty flavors are the main tastes you can experience right from the first bite. Dipping them in a mixture of mayonnaise and chili sauce is simply unmatched!
13. Oyster Spring Rolls
Oyster spring rolls are a combination of fresh, delicious oysters with the creamy taste of mayonnaise. The crispy outer layer is delightful to bite into, while the oysters are sweet and full of the essence of the sea. When eaten, they are served with greens and a rich dipping sauce, providing a unique experience for those who enjoy them. You should try your hand at this dish to make your Tet celebration even more abundant.
14. Chicken Spring Rolls
Besides boiled chicken, chicken noodles, you can also utilize the main ingredient to transform it into delicious chicken spring rolls. The spring roll skin is still fried to a golden crisp, but the filling inside is new and exciting with soft, rich chicken meat, and sweet, fragrant mushrooms, ensuring that anyone who tries it will love it immediately.
15. Duck Spring Rolls
Duck meat is also one of the ingredients that often appears during Tet. If you are tired of cooking it by boiling, making porridge, or preparing salad, you can use it to wrap in spring rolls.
Duck meat is inherently tender and flavorful, and when combined with the crispy golden skin from the pastry, and served with chili sauce, it enhances the delicious aroma and unique taste for anyone who tries it.
16. Beef Spring Rolls
When the main ingredient for spring rolls is pork, we need something more unique while still retaining the traditional flavor. Beef spring rolls are such a dish.
Delicious, rich beef combined with simple ingredients brings a new flavor to the old dish, making it unforgettable for anyone who tastes it.
17. Egg Spring Rolls
Egg spring rolls are a simple and quick dish for those who are too busy during Tet. Just with some fatty eggs, savory minced meat, and taro that has a fragrant, rich flavor, you already have this super delicious spring roll dish. Dipping a piece in sweet and sour sauce, enjoying the characteristic crunch of spring rolls is unbeatable.
18. Tomyum Spring Rolls
If you are a seafood lover, you definitely should not miss this enticing Tomyum spring roll dish. The combination of shrimp, squid, meat, and crispy rice paper makes this truly an irresistible delicacy. Especially, remember to serve it with some fresh herbs and dip it in well-seasoned fish sauce to enhance the flavor!
19. Detox Spring Rolls
True to its name “Detox,” this spring roll only includes various vegetables and mushrooms to give users a lighter, more refreshing feeling when enjoying. The crunchy exterior of the spring roll combined with the sweet, fragrant, and crispy filling, dipped in sweet and sour sauce will make the dish even more delicious.
20. Green Rice Spring Rolls
Green rice spring rolls are a very special dish with a crispy, appealing outer layer. You will also experience the fresh sweetness of seafood combined with the fragrant and stimulating taste of green rice. The green rice layer is the highlight of this dish. Why not start making it for your family?
21. Sake Spring Rolls
Sake is a fruit that is very familiar to the people of the South. Because of its popularity, many people have cleverly transformed it into a sake spring roll that is both unique and delicious. Sake has a chewy, rich taste, and the flavorful meat combined with the special pairing of vermicelli makes it more enjoyable for the diners.
22. Mushroom Spring Rolls
Mushroom spring rolls are light with a crispy golden exterior, and the filling inside is subtly sweet from fresh mushrooms and soft vegetables. When eaten with a special tamarind sauce, which is both salty and sour, your whole family will be raving about how delicious it is!
23. Lotus Seed Spring Rolls
Lotus seed spring rolls are like a culinary masterpiece of nature, made from many ingredients such as lotus seeds, pork, shrimp, raw pork sausage, and chicken eggs. All are mixed evenly with spices, then wrapped in rice paper and fried until crispy.
When enjoying, you will feel the range of many different flavors. From the nutty taste of the meat, the lightly sweet shrimp, the creamy egg, to the special nutty flavor from the lotus seeds. Just hearing the description is already tempting, right? So why wait? Check out the recipe below!
24. Banana Spring Rolls
A special “candidate” that TasteVN wants to introduce immediately is the banana spring rolls with an irresistible delicious flavor.
The golden, crispy outer layer encases a filling of ripe bananas that are soft and sweet, blended with a hint of saltiness, and flavored lightly with cinnamon powder. Enjoying it with chocolate sauce makes it even more wonderful!
25. Northern Spring Rolls
Northern spring rolls, also affectionately known as fried nem, differ from the usual spring rolls as they are wrapped with rice paper. This way, after frying, you will get an incredibly crispy layer of pastry.
Outside is a fragrant golden crust, while inside is a savory filling of meat and vegetables, and when served with chili sauce, it makes you forget the way back. This year for Tet, don’t forget this dish in your family’s feast menu!
With this compilation of 20+ how to make spring rolls that are delicious and crispy for the Lunar New Year, TasteVN hopes you can choose tasty dishes that suit your family’s table. Wishing you success!
