This beautiful, elegant dish is traditionally Vietnamese. Grains, greens, vegetables, and healthy fats – peanuts! – are the stars of the show. If you can find brown rice noodles, so much the better!
⅓ cup rice vinegar
¼ cup sugar
¼ cup unsalted dry roasted peanuts, chopped
1 teaspoon sriracha
16 large shrimp, peeled and deveined, about ¾ pound
3 ounces thin rice stick noodles (preferably brown rice)
8 rice paper spring roll wrappers
24 mint leaves
1 medium red bell pepper, cut into long, thin strips
1 large cucumber, peeled, halved lengthwise, seeded and cut into long, thin strips
1 large carrot, cut into long, thin strips
Recipe and photo courtesy of The Peanut Institute.