[edzard]

Ok so I made some fresh spring rolls and tom kha gai soup the other day mmmm tom kha!!! Anyway I had a hard time figuring out the calories in a spring roll, on the web there was a large variance between the numbers I found, plus I have no idea what they put in them!

I used one round (slightly smaller than dinner plate) rice paper and 1 ounce rice vermicelli and 1.5 ounces chicken....the veggies don't matter so much probably only add like 25 cal total. The packaging for both rice things was in a language I don't speak lol and the vermicelli I think said the calories but it was for like 4 or 6 ounces and it was before cooking. So if anyone happens to know or has figured this out let me know! Right now I am just guessing off something that sounded about right but I would love to enter my recipes totals (cal, fat, fiber) into my custom counter.

Thanks if you can help.

[baffled111]

We've made the rolls with the rice paper wraps (I think they're called summer rolls) and I think we deciphered the packaging to determine that the wrap had either 25 or 35 cals (can't remember which) per round. I imagine the rice vermicelli noodles are similar to any kind of pasta--around 200 cals/ounce. Very delicious and healthy. The calories always find their way into the dipping sauce though

[Bobbie Wickham]

Well, I don't know what the totals would be for the whole recipe, nor the fiber counts, but a medium piece of rice paper has 47 calories and 1 oz of mi fun has 96 calories. Hope that is helpful.

[Rhighlan86]

Is a spring roll like an egg roll? I've never heard of them, but they sound good from your descriptions

[Bobbie Wickham]

Sort of. A spring roll tends to have mi fun/vermicelli rice noodles and more vegetables in the filling and the wrapper isn't as thick as an egg roll. The spring roll is wrapped in rice paper. Usually both are fried, but the Vietnamese version of the spring roll isn't. The nonfried version can also called a summer roll. You can serve them with all sorts of low-cal/non fat dipping sauces.

[edzard]

Yeah the Thai resturants we go to call them "fresh spring rolls" and they come with shrimp or chicken or a combo, lettuce, carrots, cucumber, vermicelli noodles (rice) and are all finely chopped into long thin spears and wrapped in a rice paper. Around here its served normally with a plum sauce and some chopped peanuts sprinkled on that. Its very good and a great way to get veggies, they also have a fried version but I greatly prefer the fresh! Oh almost forgot the most important ingrediants a sprinkling of chopped herbs, cilantro, mint, thai basil and anything else fresh you might prefer.

I love to cook ethnic foods as authentic as I can so I did a lot of research on this recipe. If anyone has any good recipes for calories counters that are ethnic and are wheat and shrimp free (or could be modified to such) let me know!!!! I love to experiment.

[Rhighlan86]

They sound yummy.....i think I may need to find someplace that serves them