Winter Rolls with Grilled Beef & Shrimp Recipe - Andrew Zimmern

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/4 cup fish sauce, or more to taste
• Juice of 2 limes or to taste
• 1 fresh red chile, minced (use a hot one!)
• 3 tablespoons shallots, minced
• 1 garlic clove, sliced thin
• 1 pound beef tenderloin, thinly sliced
• 1 pound 16-20 count shrimp, peeled and deveined
• 1 head romaine lettuce, julienned fine
• 1/2 bunch mint sprigs
• 1/2 bunch cilantro sprigs
• 8 ounces fresh bean sprouts
• 4 tablespoons peanuts, toasted and ground
• 1 cucumber, seeded and julienned very thin
• 2 carrots, peeled and julienned very thin
• 2 cups Vietnamese rice stick noodles, cooked and cooled
• Fresh chives, cut an inch longer than the width of your final rolls
• 12-inch banh trang rice paper sheets