6 Surprisingly Easy Rice Paper Recipes

One supermarket ingredient holds this whole page together: rice paper, the same thin sheets usually sold for spring rolls. We cooked and filmed all six recipes in a single video, and each one sends the wrapper somewhere different. It gets rolled into a spiral, shaped into a croissant, folded around a breakfast filling, turned into dumplings, sealed over garlic cheese, and even frozen around strawberries and cream cheese.

If you are new to rice paper, begin with the ham and cheese spiral or the garlic cheese pockets. Both keep the shopping list short and show you quickly how the sheets soften, stick, and crisp. Save the croissant and the dumplings for round two, once you trust your folding, since both lean on the air fryer.

As a set, these cover most of the day. The crunch wrap belongs to a slow weekend breakfast, the dumplings and pockets work as snacks when people drop by, and the mochi sits ready in the freezer so dessert is done before anyone asks.

Recipes in this video

The gentlest entry point in the set. Two familiar fillings, one roll, and you find out how rice paper behaves before committing to the fancier folds later in the video.

The one dessert in the lineup, and the only recipe that ends in the freezer. Make it when you want rice paper chewy rather than crisp, or need dessert settled ahead.

The wild card of the six, a croissant built without wheat. If gluten is the reason you picked up rice paper in the first place, start here rather than with the snacks.

The one to file under weekend mornings. Bacon, egg, and avocado make it the heartiest of the six, and it shows the wrapper doing structural work instead of just crisping.

Closest thing here to a proper dinner. The sesame crust sets it apart from its cheesier neighbors, and the air fryer keeps you off the stove while you cook the rest.

Saved for last in the video, and the easiest one to hand around a table. If molten cheese is what you came for, skip straight to this timestamp.

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