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By LifeSpa Staff

• Prep Time: 30 minutes
• Cook time: 0 minutes
• Yield: 4

Ingredients

Dipping sauce:

• Fresh Lime Juice – ½ cup
• Honey – 1 tablespoon
• Garlic – 1 teaspoon, minced or pressed
• Jalapeno Pepper – 1 tablespoon, minced
• Sunflower Seed Butter (unsweetened) – 1 tablespoon

Spring Rolls:

• Pansy Flowers – 30 healthy looking blossoms, cleaned and inspected for bugs
• Green or Red Lettuce – 10 large leaves, cleaned
• Avocados – 2 medium sized, sliced in thin strips
• Carrots – ¾ cup, julienned
• Cucumber – ¾ cup, julienned
• Fresh Basil Leaves –3/4 cup, finely chopped
• Fresh Mint Leaves – ½ cup, finely chopped
• 20 rice paper rounds, 6 – 8 inches in diameter

Instructions

1. In a bowl, stir together the lime juice, honey, garlic, jalapeno pepper, and sunflower seed butter and set aside.
2. Set up your work station for assembling the spring rolls by placing your plates or bowls of pansies, lettuce leaves, avocado, carrots, cucumber, basil and mint in a row. Place a wide, shallow bowl of warm water on at your work station. Lay a clean kitchen towel next to the bowl.
3. Dip 1 rice paper wrapper into the water for a few seconds until it softens. Lay it flat on the towel.
4. Dip a second rice paper wrapper into the water to soften and then set it directly on the first rice paper wrap. Use a second towel to pat dry.
5. Arrange 3 pansies in a row face down on the wraps.
6. Center a lettuce leaf on top of the pansy row and stacked rice papers.
7. Beginning about 1/3 of the way in from the edge of the wrapper and arrange about one tenth of the avocado, carrots, cucumber, basil and mind on the lettuce.
8. Fold one long side of the rice paper up and over the filling and then roll once to form a tight cylinder. Fold in the ends of the rice paper and continue to roll the paper and filling into a tight cylinder.
9. Place the roll, seam side down.
10. Repeat with the remaining rice paper and filling ingredients to make 10 beautiful rolls.
11. Use a sharp knife to cut rolls in half at a diagonal.
12. Serve with dipping sauce.

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