Egg Roll Bowl Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What do you serve with egg rolls in a bowl? ›

Top your bowl with chopped peanuts, crispy chow mein noodles (the dry kind), wonton strips, or sesame sticks. Serve with Your Grain of Choice. rice, quinoa, or Cauliflower Fried Rice all go well with this egg roll stir fry. Or serve it with noodles for a change of pace (check out these Stir Fry Noodles too).

Egg roll in a bowl is essentially an egg roll without the wrapper. Egg rolls usually have ground pork, vegetables, and seasoning wrapped up in a crunchy, chewy wrapper. We've ditched the wrapper to make a low-carb, keto friendly meal in a bowl.

Egg rolls are easier to make than you think! First, combine cooked ground pork and garlic with soy sauce, sesame oil, ground ginger, shredded cabbage, and shredded carrots. Roll the filling in egg roll wrappers, and seal the egg roll with a flour and water mixture.

As far as the difference in fillings, egg rolls are typically filled with cooked cabbage, some other vegetables, and pork, while spring rolls typically contain only cooked vegetables. But like any generalization for food so beloved worldwide, you're sure to find exceptions if you look hard enough.

Egg rolls and dipping sauces are a match made in heaven. We're big fans of all kinds of different dips to accompany Van's Kitchen Egg Rolls. Sweet & Sour and Duck Sauce are the most common sauces to serve but it's fun (and tasty) to switch things up a bit and try new flavors.

One serving of this egg roll in a bowl contains 204 calories, 28 grams of protein, 10 carbohydrates, 6 grams of fat and 3 grams of sugar. It's also a good source of potassium and Vitamin A.

I know what Americans call an egg roll as served in Chinese restaurants and carry-outs is a spring roll or pancake roll here. In Scotland an egg roll would be a fried egg in a Morton's morning roll. In England it might be a fried egg in a barmcake/bap/bread roll according to location.

Foodtimeline.org says, “egg rolls (and their lighter counterpart, spring rolls) date back to ancient China. It is quite likely that egg-roll type foods were made and consumed in the USA by the first Chinese settlers in the mid 1800's.” Okay, now we are getting somewhere.

But egg rolls are anything but healthy. They're wrapped in dough and deep-fried. The result is an appetizer that packs more than 220 calories and 10 grams of fat in each one. And that doesn't include the sweet dipping sauce.

When you need to add the filling to our Egg Roll Wrappers, apply our signature ready-to-use filling made with farm fresh cabbage and celery. Our Egg Roll Fillings are blanched and packaged in 10 lb. bags and cases, saving you prep time in the kitchen.

What is the pink stuff in an egg roll? ›

You MUST use ground pork--do not use ground beef or chicken or the weird pink stuff that is ground turkey. Just trust me on this. Also, make sure not to overstuff the egg rolls with filling--this was always my problem growing up because I wanted them to be thick.

If you are wondering what the clear noodles in egg rolls are, they are cellophane noodles. I'm sharing with you what's inside of them and more!

Generally, spring rolls are healthier. In Vietnam and Thailand, spring rolls are packed with raw vegetables and fresh herbs. The rolls are also made with a thinner wrapper than egg rolls and often served fresh, rather than fried.

Egg rolls and spring rolls are both savory fried appetizers, but they have different origins, wrappers and fillings. Origin: Egg rolls were created in the U.S. while spring rolls were invented in China. Wrapper: Egg rolls have a thicker skin and utilize a wonton or thick, yeast dough wrapper.

Egg rolls are really just spring rolls slathered with some egg mix before frying. Ingredients may differ and prep style, but the two are really just the same thing.

The dish is served warm, and is usually eaten with the fingers, dipped in duck sauce, soy sauce, plum sauce, or hot mustard, often from a cellophane packet.

The best way to serve warm dinner rolls

If you've baked your homemade rolls and they've had time to cool down completely, I've got a super simple way for you to still serve them warm! Right before you're ready to call everyone to the table, do this: Place the rolls in a bread bag or gallon ziplock bag.

Using a bread basket to serve dinner rolls is a natural go-to for most individuals. Since most dinner rolls tend to be served warm, using a napkin can help to retain the the heat of the dinner rolls.

Warming Egg Rolls up in the Oven

Set your oven to 350 °F (177 °C). While you're waiting for the oven to preheat, line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Set the egg rolls on top of the baking sheet so that no egg roll is overlapping. You do not need to line the aluminum foil with cooking spray.