Stuffed Rice Paper Pancakes
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Stuffed Rice Paper Pancakes are crispy rice paper pancakes stuffed with beef and crab meat. Gluten free and healthy week dinner recipe, everybody will love!
Let me start with one confession: I find wrapping moist rice paper complicated because it is so sticky and easily dropped and torn so I started to explore easier ways to stuff one with the filling and cover with another one, press the edges and bake it just like pancakes. The result is this stuffed rice paper recipe.
During the process, it seemed impossible to keep the rice papers in one piece after we submerged them into the water. So, simple idea popped out and it works: you just wet two tea towels and place rice papers between them, taking care that smooth side is down:
However, the first step we suggest is to prepare your stuffing. Start with cooking beef with salt and ground black pepper to taste until meat gets golden brown. After you drain rice, combine it with eggs, meat, mushrooms, herbs, lemon juice, and soy sauce. At the end, add surimi, and gently combine. Here are your ingredients:
This is the filling for your wet rice papers. Once stuffed, it is easy to cover the bottom one with the other and stick the edges without any special ingredient.
Is rice paper gluten free?
Fortunately, rice paper is a naturally gluten free. No gluten containing ingredients whatsoever.
What are rice paper wrappers made of?
Rice paper wrapper is often made of rice flour, water, salt, and tapioca. Salt helps the rice paper wraps to be more elastic, become completely dry, and prevent fungus. Tapioca helps the rice paper to be thinner, more glutinous, easier to bend, and not easy to be cracked. For more details, see here .
If you are skilled with rice paper dishes, you can also make several layers of tea towels and rice papers to speed the process, so you just remove tea towels one by one and fill one paper, cover it with another and repeat the process.
We all agreed that pineapple and cilantro leaves are a must to serve the wraps with. They enrich the flavours very much. Serving your food this way, you don’t need any dipping sauce for it.
For 15 more recipes using rice paper go to Thenessykitchen .
Stuffed Rice Paper Pancakes
Stuffed Rice Paper Pancakes are crispy rice paper pancakes stuffed with beef and crab meat. Gluten free and healthy week dinner recipe, everybody will love!
Ingredients
- 14 Rice Papers
- 1 Tbsp sunflower oil + 1 cup minced beef + salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 1 cup canned button mushrooms, drained, sliced
- ½ cup sushi rice, or any other medium grain rice ; when boiled, makes 1 ¾ cup
- 1 Tbsp cilantro leaves, chopped
- 1 ½ cup crab meat, Surimi, precooked for 45 seconds max., finely sliced
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- Salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 2 -3 drops of oil for every pancake
- Pineapple slices and chopped fresh cilantro leaves to garnish
Instructions
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In a frying pan, cook beef with oil and salt and ground black pepper until lightly brown.
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In a medium sized pot, boil rice for 11 minutes. You will get 1 ¾ cup of rice, when drained.
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In medium sized bowl, using spatula, combine eggs, rice, beef, cilantro leaves, lemon juice, soy sauce, salt, and ground black pepper to taste. At the end add crab meat and gently combine.
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Wet two clean tea towels. Lay one on a working surface and place two rice papers ( smooth side down) on, one next to the other.
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Sprinkle with water, lay the other wet tea towel on both rice papers and leave for 10 minutes so the rice papers soak the water.
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Spread 3 Tbsp of filling on the top, leaving ½ inch free space all around your rice paper.
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Cover with the second rice paper and stick the edges using your fingers.
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Put 2 – 3 drops of oil on the frying pan large enough so stuffed rice pancake fits into it and warm the pan over medium heat on your stove top.
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Fry on both sides for 2 – 3 minutes or until golden and crispy.
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For another paper pancakes sandwich, repeat the steps 4 to 9.
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Carefully take the pancake out, cut to halves and serve with pineapple and chopped cilantro leaves to taste.
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