Kiddipedia

Kiddipedia

Makes 10

This is a simple and fun way to get kids to eat their vegetables. I used to make these spring rolls for Anela and Kiki years ago and I love that I now get to share them with you; however, I’m also going to share my spicy dipping sauce for adults, so that everyone can get in on the fun.

GRAB THIS STUFF

½ onion, fi nely diced

1 celery stalk, cut into matchsticks

2 carrots, cut into matchsticks

50 g (½ cup) fi nely diced mushrooms

30 g (¼ cup) fi nely diced broccoli

40 g (¼ cup) fi nely diced red capsicum

2 garlic cloves, crushed

95 g (½ cup) cooked rice (optional)

3 tablespoons salt-reduced soy sauce

10 sheets of frozen fi lo pastry, just thawed

1 egg, lightly beaten

1 teaspoon sesame seeds

1 spring onion, green part only, fi nely sliced

2 bird’s eye chillies, fi nely sliced

ADULTS-ONLY DIPPING SAUCE 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce

2 tablespoons crushed unsalted peanuts

1 tablespoon sriracha chilli sauce

Now do this

Place the veggies, garlic and rice (if using) in a bowl and stir through the soy sauce.

Take a sheet of fi lo pastry and trim one of the long ends so you are left with a square (save the offcuts for another use). Place the fi lo sheet on your chopping board with one corner facing you, so it looks like a diamond. Using a spoon, place 2 tablespoons of the vegetable mixture in the centre of the fi lo sheet. Now fold it up, spring-roll style. If you don’t know how to do this, pop ‘how to wrap a spring roll’ into the YouTube search bar – it’s a game changer. Repeat with the remaining vegetable mixture and fi lo sheets until you have ten spring rolls.

Brush the beaten egg over the rolls and sprinkle the sesame seeds on top. Line the base of your air fryer with baking paper and pop your rolls in. Cook on 170°C for 8 minutes.

Now for the sauce. If you’re making these rolls for the kids, simply spoon the hoisin sauce into small dipping bowls.

If you’re making them for grown-ups, combine the dipping sauce ingredients in a bowl, then divide among bowls.

Serve the rolls naked for your little humans or sprinkle the spring onion and chilli over for your adult friends; either way, it’s win–win.

 

Air Fryer Express by George Georgievski, Published by Plum, RRP $26.99, Photography by Nikole Ramsay