Fresh Vegetable Spring Rolls Recipe with Peanut Sesame Dipping Sauce (2024)

Published: Jan 30, 2021 · Modified: Apr 17, 2023 · Amy Casey · 19 Comments

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This vegetable spring rolls recipe is a super fresh and healthy counterpart to fried egg rolls. They are loaded with bright green lettuce leaves, thin bean threads, bean sprouts, and crunchy matchsticks of carrots, cucumbers, and red peppers.Serve the handheld salad with a peanutty sesame dipping sauce. You will love this fun way to eat veggies.

I do love a good salad! Crispy cool lettuce, cherry tomatoes, chunks of cucumbers and bell peppers, shreds of cheddar cheese all with a homemade creamy cilantro dressing ~ yum!

But every so often I tire of eating what seems like an endless bowl of veggies. I like to change up my salad routine with this super fresh vegetable spring rolls recipe. They go so well with this chicken fried rice too.

A personal chef client request lead to my first attempt at making vegetable spring rolls. After testing a few recipes at home (I wanted to make sure the rolls could be made in advance and still be fresh tasting), I struck upon this recipe. I think you will love it!

what's to love about are fresh vegetable spring rolls?

Fresh vegetable spring rolls are really handheld salads. Ultra thin spring roll wrappers made of rice flour are filled with slivers of sliced fresh vegetables. I love carrots, cucumbers, bell peppers and romaine lettuce. They can also include slightly chewy Asian bean threads or rice noodles too. My favorite dipping sauce is a peanut sesame one, and I've included it with the recipe below.

lots of fresh ingredients

There are an endless variety of vegetable combinations for filling vegetable spring rolls. Start off by grabbing some spring roll wrappers. Then gather the fillers. Here's my favorite filling combination ~

• romaine lettuce
• thin bean threads
• carrot
• cucumber
• red bell pepper
• bean sprouts
• fresh cilantro

And the ingredients for the peanut sesame dipping sauce include ~

• hoisin sauce
• toasted sesame oil
• smooth peanut butter
• rice vinegar
• reduced sodium soy sauce
• red pepper flakes
• water

Scroll to the recipe for the full quantities of the ingredients.

fresh spring roll cooking video

My step by step video shows you how to make these delicious vegetable spring rolls.

the recipe details

Making fresh veggie spring rolls involves some chopping and assembling. No cooking is necessary! Prepping all the ingredients in advance is the key to success for easy vegetable spring rolls.

First I like to make the sesame peanut sauce. Combine hoisin sauce,peanut butter, soy sauce, rice vinegar,toasted sesame oil, andred pepper flakes. Stir a couple tablespoons of warm water to thin the sauce. Set the sauce aside and make the vegetable rolls.

Fill of large pie plate with warm water. The key to easily making this spring roll recipe is to have all the filling ingredients chopped and ready.

Dip a spring roll wrapperin the warm water for about 5+/- seconds so it's soft and pliable. Place it on a work surface.

Stack a lettuce leaf on the wrapper. Top some of thebean threads, carrots, cucumber, red pepper, bean sprouts, and a few cilantro leaves.

Now it's time to get rolling. It's like rolling up a burrito. Fold in the two sides of the wrapper over the ingredients followed by the end of the wrapper closest to you. Tuck the ingredients in with your fingers to keep the rolls neat and snug. Continue rolling until the spring roll is formed.

I love putting the spring rolls on a pretty ceramic platter along with the dipping sauce.

suggestions and recipe tips

• Make sure to thinly slice all the vegetables to 2 - 3 inches in length. This slim size adds to the ease of assembling the spring rolls.
• Cook the bean threads for 3 to 5 minutes in boiling water. Pick these up in the Asian section of your grocery store. Rinse the cooked noodles with cold water. This will prevent them from sticking together. Drain well so you will not have soggy spring rolls.
• Have a large work surface for assembling and rolling of the vegetable spring rolls.
• Quickly dip the spring roll wrappers in warm water to soften them.
• Place the filling ingredients on the lower half of the spring roll wrapper. Fold in the 2 sides then the end closest to you and roll up the spring roll nice and snug.

fresh vegetable spring rolls ~ FAQs

more healthy recipes to try

Fresh and Healthy Spinach Blueberry Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Lemony Cauliflower Salad with Edamame and Chickpeas

Mini Greek Turkey Burgers with Cucumber Tzatziki

Quinoa Egg Muffins ~ A Make Ahead Breakfast

just one more thing

If you make this vegetable spring rolls recipe, I’d love hearing from you. Be sure to leave a comment and/or give this recipe a rating ~ I do my best to reply to all your comments. And snap a photo to post toInstagram. I’ll add the photos to my Insta stories as I love seeing all your creations.

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