Cuốn Diếp

Name: Cuốn Diếp (Vietnamese Lettuce Roll)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Vietnam
Ingredients: 4 ounces (¼ package) medium rice sticks (bún) or 1 packet of thin Japanese wheat noodles (somen), boiled for 2 or 3 minutes, drained, and cooled under cold water; ½ pound pork belly or other boneless pork, boiled for 20 minutes and sliced into noodle-thin 2-inch by 1-inch strips; ½ pound medium shrimp, boiled, shelled, and halved lengthwise; 1 handful coriander leaves (cilantro), roughly chopped; 1 handful mint leaves; 1 iceberg lettuce; 1 bunch scallion greens, blanched for 30 seconds; One recipe Nὐὀc Chấm Sauce

Vietnamese Lettuce Roll

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Canon of Vegetables

By Raymond Sokolov

Published 2007

About

Do you think it is pretentious that I have insisted on including the polytonic* accents on the Vietnamese name of this lettuce roll and its fermented fish sauce? I definitely have no idea what they portend as to pronunciation. My spoken Vietnamese is limited, to say the least. But I am proud of being able to get these exotic marks to display on my computer screen.†

The culinary interest of this reci

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Asia
Vietnam
Spicy
Spring
South East Asia

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