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Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce (Gluten-Free, Vegan)

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Easy, breezy, fresh Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce, gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Fresh rice paper wraps filled with raw veggies and red quinoa are perfect for dipping into a sweet apricot sauce! This recipe makes for a light healthy and satisfying meal!

Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce (Gluten-Free, Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Easy, breezy, fresh Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce, gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Fresh rice paper wraps filled with raw veggies and red quinoa are perfect for dipping into a sweet apricot sauce! This recipe makes for a light healthy and satisfying meal!

I don’t wrap often, but when I do…deliciousness ensues! My favorite food to eat and for those cozy feels is Indian food, but when it comes to actually making, the Asian cuisines always have my heart! There are just so many different types of dishes you can make; things never get boring! Those fresh rice paper spring rolls you always see around the internet always looked so appealing to me. Last summer I decided it was time to take my own swing at making the dish.

Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce (Gluten-Free, Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Easy, breezy, fresh Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce, gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Fresh rice paper wraps filled with raw veggies and red quinoa are perfect for dipping into a sweet apricot sauce! This recipe makes for a light healthy and satisfying meal!

The wraps you use for fresh spring rolls, rice paper wraps, are super delicate. You soak them just for a few seconds and then they get super sticky and stretchy. If you’re too rough, they’ll rip. My first few rolls didn’t survive the wrapping and rolling. But after you test things out and get a feel for it all, you get into the swing of it and a calming rhythm of stuffing, wrapping, and rolling. Just create a little assembly line, play some music, and concentrate on the quinoa spring roll creation!

Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce (Gluten-Free, Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Easy, breezy, fresh Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce, gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Fresh rice paper wraps filled with raw veggies and red quinoa are perfect for dipping into a sweet apricot sauce! This recipe makes for a light healthy and satisfying meal!

Now these quinoa spring rolls needed a little “something something” to be dipped in. One of the greatest classic Asian sauces, duck sauce! Duck sauce is just a sweet apricot based sauce that is the sister to soy sauce at a Chinese take-out restaurant. I grew up LOVING duck sauce. I’d be happy with a plate of white rice topped with soy sauce and duck sauce. That salty + umami + sweet combo was to die for!

Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce (Gluten-Free, Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Easy, breezy, fresh Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce, gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Fresh rice paper wraps filled with raw veggies and red quinoa are perfect for dipping into a sweet apricot sauce! This recipe makes for a light healthy and satisfying meal!

Sauces always make a meal. A perfect sauce goes a long way, but the flavors have to be just right; complimentary. You don’t want the sauce to take away from the dish, you want the flavor to add to the dish. I guess a good complimentary sauce can be a bit unexpected too. You might not think a sweet duck sauce would be good with quinoa spring rolls and fresh, crunchy, raw veggies, but boy o boy…it is delicious!

Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce (Gluten-Free, Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Easy, breezy, fresh Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce, gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Fresh rice paper wraps filled with raw veggies and red quinoa are perfect for dipping into a sweet apricot sauce! This recipe makes for a light healthy and satisfying meal!

Cooked and cooled red quinoa, fresh Napa cabbage leaves, green onion, and celery slices. Crispy, crunchy, and so fresh to bite into! Do a little dunking in the homemade sweet sauce…glorious to a whole new level! Needless to say, my entire family was in love with these gluten-free, soy-free, allergy-free, vegan spring rolls rolls!

Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce

Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce (Gluten-Free, Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Easy, breezy, fresh Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce, gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Fresh rice paper wraps filled with raw veggies and red quinoa are perfect for dipping into a sweet apricot sauce! This recipe makes for a light healthy and satisfying meal!

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Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce (Gluten-Free, Vegan)

Easy, breezy, fresh Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce, gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Fresh rice paper wraps filled with raw veggies and red quinoa are perfect for dipping into a sweet apricot sauce! This recipe makes for a light healthy and satisfying meal!

  • Author: Rebecca Pytell
  • Cook Time: 10 mins
  • Total Time: 10 mins
  • Yield: 8 1x
  • Category: Main, Side
  • Cuisine: Asian
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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. For each spring roll: soak the rice paper wrapper in a wide bowl of warm water for 10-15 seconds.
  2. Place it on a flat surface and add 3-4 tablespoons of cooked red quinoa and a few slices of each of the sliced veggies to the center of the wrap.
  3. Fold one end of the wrap over the middle, then fold in the sides (like a burrito), and then fold over the last side.
  4. For the duck sauce: combine all ingredients together in a small food processor and blend until combined.
  5. Serve the rolls with the duck sauce and a sprinkling of sesame seeds if desired.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 2-4

Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce (Gluten-Free, Vegan) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Easy, breezy, fresh Quinoa Spring Rolls with Homemade Duck Sauce, gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Fresh rice paper wraps filled with raw veggies and red quinoa are perfect for dipping into a sweet apricot sauce! This recipe makes for a light healthy and satisfying meal!

The amount of veggies and quinoa you use will vary of course and with 8 spring rolls you’ll have enough for 2 people as a main dish or 4 people as a side dish. Have fun with the filling! Use white quinoa if you don’t have red, add some carrot, mushrooms, diakon. But whatever you do, make sure you have that fabulous duck sauce for dipping!

So tell me:

+ Are you good with wrap and sushi rolling? Once I get the hang of it, but it takes a few tries!

+ Are you a duck sauce lover? Heck yes! But the packets from Chinese take-out are loaded with high fructose corn syrup and the like!

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  6. Dianne says

    I DO love duck sauce! I’ve gotten pretty good at rolling spring rolls and wraps like this, but it’s taken a lot of practice!

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  8. Chrissy Faery says

    Oh Wow!! I have to make these – they look and sound incredible! <3 I used to love duck sauce as a kid, but I haven't had it since then! I'm SO excited to try this! 🙂 xxx

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      I think they’ll love them! Anything you can dip into a good sauce always wins!

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  14. Kasia says

    Awesome recipe. I’ve made spring rolls before but not quinoa. And I also haven’t made my own duck sauce so I’ll be saving this recipe. Thanks for sharing it.

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  24. Sarune says

    I’m terrible at sushi rolling but my boyfriend got a hand on it 🙂 Your recipe looks simple enough and healthy, something we would enjoy making together making together with my sweetheart,

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  29. Brandie says

    I don’t think I’ve ever had duck sauce before. I do love any type of wraps. I love spring rolls but your right rice paper can be tricky sometimes but 100% worth it.

    Reply

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