If you only knew how much we ate on Thanksgiving…..if you only knew. Beyond what was prepared for the traditional fete of turkey, potatoes, stuffing, vegetables and such, we still had the other half of the “White On Rice Couple” meal to contend to. Every Thanksgiving is always a tale of two feasts. This second, multicultural course consisted of fresh Bun rice noodles, Mom’s homemade fish sauce and trays full of vietnamese herbs.
The endless chow-down of starch just didn’t seem to end from there.
Mom and Dad needed to wash down all the indulgence of cream, butter and cheese, so they pulled out their huge stock pot of Pho noodle soup to help “cleanse” and “digest” all the rich American dishes. When they put so much hard work, hours and homemade love into a beef stock, it’s hard to decline the parents when they offer us a bowl. We are good, obedient children when it comes to eating food.
But the last and final bowl of Pho noodle soup shoved us over the gluttony cliff. And besides, Todd had 3 1/4 slices of pumpkin pie with whipped cream on top! (We’re still arguing over the last 1/4 slice because I actually think he ate 1/2 of my slice. But we’ll just state that he ate 1/4 for sake of argument…and peace)
It’s time to detoxify, do yoga, acupuncture, run miles, or what ever it takes to get ourselves back to on track again.
Spring rolls again, you ask?! But of course, our dear readers, but of spring roll course! For those who know us well, you all know that we’ll find enough ways to roll up spring rolls to fill a book…hint, hint. So what better way to detoxify after a gluttonous Thanksgiving feast than to wrap all your left over turkey into a fresh spring roll.
Dear folks, using your left over turkey into a light and healthy rice paper, filled with fresh herbs and vegetable will pull you out of any gluttony guilt. Fresh spring rolls are low in calories, a good way to recycle your turkey and greens and fill you with a healthy pride that is often lacking after a day of gorging on rich foods. Making these fresh rice paper rolls is just a matter of assembly: gather your left over turkey, fresh vegetables, herbs and start rolling!
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Turkey Spring Rolls Recipe
Ingredients:
Left over turkey
lettuce or thinly sliced cabbage
*for vegetables, you can use all or some:
shredded or julienne carrots
thin slices of celery
slices of cucumber
slices of bell peppers
cilantro
basil, mint or any Viet Herb1 pkg of dry, rice paper sheets
1. Assemble your vegetables and herbs
2. Follow rolling instructions at Spring Rolling 101.
For the dipping sauce that is in the same idea of Thanksgiving, you can make a cranberry dipping sauce or many other that we have made previously. All these dips will complement the turkey spring rolls nicely:
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Nice and light, and the cranberry dipping sauce is a cute touch!
There’s a creative use of leftover turkey and very glad you guys had a great Thanksgiving. Also, a spring roll book, eh? Congrats and tell us more! More more!
You can also add some mashed sweet potato into the roll! These are so healthy they really don’t seem like leftovers.
More than three slices?! Growing lad! O_o hahaha. Oh, I know exactly what you mean. After such dizzying feasts, I usually go for just greens or grilled fish. But of course, you guys had to kick it up a notch– but it’s such an excellent way to get rid of leftover turkey!
I think this is such a lovely way to use up that turkey. I am in the UK so we don’t celebrate thanksgiving but I will certainly remember this idea when I have lots of leftover Christmas turkey! I feel I am in need of a detox already and I haven’t even celebrated anything yet! I actually have some rice wrappers so maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if I went and bought some turkey especially for these?
Very delicious use of turkey leftovers. This sounds fresh and tasty!
Of course you guys would use your leftover turkey this way!
I’m going the fish and greens route this week for sure.
Oh, and the bowl of pho you just had to accept? That would have killed me too, but no way would I refuse a genuine bowl of that goodness. Mm.
This look delicious! But then again, I like pretty much anything wrapped in rice paper.
Oh yeah baby, I think I would want Thanksgiving just to be able to have the left overs to make these
Awesome stuff! Makes a change from turkey soup
A big bowl of pho sounds great right now actually!
Todd, don’t steal Diane’s pumpkin pie
These look delicious, though after reading your twitter feed I am fairly confident Todd is eating 2 slice of pumpkin pie right now…
You know I was thinking about doing something like this but didnt because Im awful at rolling. Perfect for the day after lunch.
what an ingenenous and refreshing way to use leftover turkey. I shall remember this next time.
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What a great way to use turkey leftovers. I just turned mine into a casserole.
so yummy! and so healthy =D
What a creative use for leftovers. I have only experienced hand-rolling my own rice paper rolls recently when I found a near-empty mom and pop run Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco. My girlfriend and I dined there one evening because it was across the street from an ultra-hip super-popular Burmese restaurant called Burma Superstar that had a 2 hour wait which we were unwilling to commit to. The small Vietnamese place was incredible, we ordered the dish that comes with a ridiculously mounded plate of lettuce and veggies, rice papers and thinly sliced raw beef with a bowl of sweet & boiling vinegar to cook it in. The owners were the most friendly and helpful people I’ve encountered at any restaurant and were more than willing to show us how to eat it. We’ve only been back once since then, but we absolutely love it! Where can I get these rice papers, would a regular grocery store carry them? Or do I need to seek out an Asian grocer? I’ve got some leftover turkey to use, but I also just bought 2 more turkey breasts for myself because I’m obsessed with Thanksgiving dinner.
mmmm, those look good. i love the tips on rolling spring rolls. i’ve never tried them cause i’ve always been kind of scared! but now i think i’ll give it a go
Spring rolls looks great, The snaps are really great, so clear..
Thanks for posting
Lilly
These look delicious – a perfect panacea to the day before, and a good suggestion for leftover Christmas turkey and chicken.
Isn’t everything better in spring roll form?
These look delicious!
You made such great use of your leftovers. Glad to hear that you had a lovely Thanksgiving.
i love leftovers and the fact that my gluttony can be prolonged to last two or three days. what a terrific holiday–glad yours was enjoyable.
What a fantastic idea! I’m a stufifng nut, so usually we end up with a bunch of leftover turkey on day three and no stuffing in sight. This would be the perfect no carb way to use up the leftovers – and balance out all that stuffing!
Oh, gluttony – more to come, what with the Christmas approaching.
Your spring rolls are just such a healthy anti-dote to any guilt bites!
What a good idea!! Never use turkey on any wrapped food like these. Look lovely.
What a great idea of making some summer rolls with the leftovers. Light and very refreshing.
Did I hear a mention of a book!?!?!
Woo hoo! Looking delicious guys. I could eat spring rolls everyday.
I would never have considered turkey in my spring rolls, what a great idea! They look fantastic!
I love this idea and will most definitely keep it in mind for after Christmas when we over indulge like you you just have at Thanksgiving. Thx for sharing!
i simply adore your rice paper rolls, they are marvelous…
This is a fantastic way to use up turkey leftovers! Although we don’t really celebrate Thanksgiving here I’m always on the lookout for great ways with leftovers
What a brilliant use for leftover turkey. I never would have thought to make spring rolls with it!
that looks so good! sad part is, it is so tough to find celantro here in germany, let alone, rice paper sheets. those are not always available. i hope to find those soon so i can try this recipe!
those look awesome! what a great way to use leftovers — i’m impressed!
Nice and light. What a relief!
I just found your blog and have spent hours reading through the archives and your “comfort” piece in “about us”. Ten years ago we traveled to Ninh Binh to adopt my son – the apple of my eye and joy in my life. We LOVED Vietnam, the people, culture and FOOD. I have tried and tried to recreate the flavors and smells of VN. Every once and a while I succeed and husband will say, “Yeah, this is it” but the next time I fail. I have found some great ideas here and I can’t wait to get started. I’m looking forward to following your site and learning as much as I can about cooking Vietnam!
Very yummy photos!
I saw your comment somewhere else & had to click through to see your blog. Love the name of your blog. My basketball coach in high school used to scream those words to whomever was slacking off: “You’d better pick up the speed! I’m watching you! I’m going to be on you like white on rice!”
So glad I don’t have to do those sprint drills anymore.
There’s this love/hate thing that happens with the holidays. We all look forward to them, work our butts off, make way too much food and then bitch about how sick we feel from the gluttony. Then we wait impatiently for the next opportunity to do it all over again. Imagine what an alien would think about this whole ritualistic thing… The spring rolls are such a great way to eat light and use up leftovers. Fabulous.
oooh so light and so fresh! Just what we need after a day of sheer gluttony … just perfect!
Those look beautiful!!! This is probably the first detox food I have ever come across that looks like something I would eat… XD
This are so lovely. I love making spring rolls like this, just about anything can be happy in a spring roll. The more I do, the better they look but I still have a way to go to make mine look as neat as your do.
Great use for left-overs of all kinds, brilliant to use turkey.
I am going to make these tomorrow! They look fabulous, plus I’ve been wanting to make “spring rolls”…so thanks! Oh, please put me at the top of the list for your cookbook!! I want one…no, make that two! I’m so happy you’re going to do one – can’t wait to see it! Glad you had a great T-day…we’re all still waddling!
Got a question for you…can I use the rice paper wrappers and fry them or won’t they hold up? Also, I just printed out a copy of your mom’s fish sauce recipe but tell me this…does it taste fishy? A friend of mine always makes and eat spring rolls with black soy sauce and oyster sauce – and I was shocked to find that the oyster sauce didn’t taste fishy…not a fan of fishy…thanks for the recipes!
gosh, they are absolutely stunning!
Wow….these look delicious! I am sure after making these there arent any leftovers
Oh my those look so fresh and delicious. I haven’t seen anything looking so fresh since weeks before Thanksgiving. Those rolls are making my eyes very happy!
Ok, now you gave me the perfect idea for what to do with those last bits of ham after Christmas, and a perfect reason to rummage the Asian food stores around here in search for the perfect rice paper sheets!
Greetings,
Tiina
One of my favorite “junk” food is B̀o Bía. I used sneak out to buy them off the streets of Saigon, and my mother forbid me from buying anything off the street. But they were so good! Restaurants don’t make them here for some reason, so I made some with my daughters last night, we had so much fun! I have no idea why it is called B̀o since there is no beef in the roll at all. May be another idea for your post!
This would make a great bed time snack, but not too many – just 2 or 3 slices!