Pork Egg Roll In A Bowl - a delicious medley of various flavors and textures, vegetables, browned pork, and a drizzle of tangy hot sauce. It's a burst of flavors in one dish that will leave you wanting to reach for another bowl. Perfect for quick meal prep, and lunchboxes, and is a satisfying dinner, that's sure to become your family’s favorite.
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🛒Ingredients
- Ground pork - Ground chicken, ground turkey, or lean ground beef.
- Toasted sesame oil - elevates the flavor of the dish. Don’t skip it!
- Onion - Finely diced brown onion. Or more scallions.
- Ginger - Freshly grated. You can also use ground ginger (about 1 teaspoon).
- Carrot - grated, julienned or cut into matchsticks. Red bell pepper or mushrooms can be used instead.
- Garlic - Freshly minced garlic cloves provide the best flavor.
- Soy sauce - low-sodium soy sauce or regular soy sauce (but salt content will need to be adjusted to taste). For a gluten-free option, use tamari or coconut aminos.
- Sweet and sour sauce - Sriracha, garlic chili sauce, or another hot sauce alternatives.
- Cabbage- I’ve used a combination of green cabbage and purple cabbage (red cabbage) for this recipe. Feel free to adjust the ratio or use one type of cabbage only. For convenience's sake, use a bag of coleslaw mix from the store.
- Beans - My favorite choice of bean sprouts for this keto egg roll bowl is mung beans. Make sure to rinse and dry them before combining them with the other ingredients. You could also omit them and increase the cabbage and other veggies or add other ingredients such as water chestnuts.
For the full list of ingredients, please scroll down to where you'll find the recipe card.
✅ EXPERT TIP Make it vegetarian! Turn this dish into a vegetarian or vegan meal by using plant-based protein as a substitute for ground pork. Finely chopped tofu, vegan ''beef'' crumbles or tempeh (especially this, so good!) are good options too.
🥘 Instructions
In a large skillet over medium-high heat, saute onion until softened (5 minutes). Add in garlic, and ginger and saute further for 30 seconds. You can use scallions here instead of regular onion.
Add meat and cook until no longer pink. Stir in sweet and sour sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil and rice wine vinegar.
Carefully top with shredded cabbage, and carrot and stir to combine. Let simmer for 3-4 minutes and add mung beans last.
Stir in 2-3 tablespoons sliced green onions (optional or you can just leave them for garnish) and remove from heat.
Serve with more green onions, sesame seeds, cilantro, sweet and sour or hot sauce, and a side portion of rice noodles, regular or brown rice.
Egg Roll Bowl Substitutes
Sesame Oil: toasted Sesame oil provides an authentic Asian flavor, but you can substitute almost any oil you want, including olive oil or vegetable oil. It needs to be toasted (either store-bought or you can toast sesame oil at home)
Veggies: cabbage and carrot is the traditional way to go, but you can definitely add your own spin on it. My recommendations: mushrooms, edamame, more different bean sprouts, snow peas, and bell peppers.
No Meat option: Swap the meat for firm tofu, tempeh, or vegan beef crumbles. Or leave it out completely.
Ground meat: Popular substitute readers love, is turkey, followed by ground beef or chicken. For a healthier choice, go for lean ground meats.
Aromatics: fresh garlic and ginger as essential aromatics and are used in most Asian-inspired dishes. There are no substitutions that will come close to their flavor but I’ll recommend what I’d add.
Ginger substitute: allspice, cumin, turmeric, nutmeg. Garlic alternative: fennel, cumin, fresh or dried celery, shallot, green onion, garlic oil, garlic powder, granulated garlic.
Soy sauce: Alternatives include tamari, coconut aminos, Miso paste, hoisin, oyster sauce, fish sauce.
Hot sauce: sweet and sour sauce, garlic chili sauce, sriracha, or valentine. To make it whole family-friendly, leave it out of the mix and use it only for individual servings.
📋Tips
- If you don’t need this dish to be low carb, you can add cooked rice (brown or white) or noodles to the egg roll bowl. Use rice noodles for a gluten-free meal.
- Like to ad an egg? Make a well in the center of the skillet and add the egg. Scramble until done and then stir together with the rest of the ingredients. I'd add this after 1-2 minutes of frying the cabbage.
- Bulk up this egg roll bowl recipe with a serving of cauliflower rice.
- I prefer to simmer the fresh cabbage for only a few minutes so that it’s soft but still has some crunch. The same applies to the mung beans, which I only add in at the last minute.
- Toasted sesame oil is intended for finishing a dish with flavor instead of being used as a cooking oil. You could sautee the veggies using olive oil instead and add sesame oil towards the end of the cooking time if you like.
✅ EXPERT TIP You don't really need to serve this dish with anything. I like to keep it simple with finely chopped scallions and a drizzle of sweet and sour or hot sauce.
Why is it called egg roll in a bowl?
From Asian Cuisine, especially Chinese, we are familiar with the delicious veggies and meat ingredients wrapped in rice paper rolls, wheat dough wrappers, or wontons.
There is no clear answer if the egg rolls are traditional Chinese dish, invented in the US or is a creation of authentic Chinese chefs. It is more likely that it is a variation of classic Chinese spring roll.
Traditional egg roll is wrapped in a special egg roll wrapper (wheat-based) but in this recipe, we are making deconstructed egg roll bowls by using only the filling and not the crunchy exterior.
What Is An Egg Roll?
Traditional Egg rolls is a popular Chinese/Asian appetizer dish that is often loaded with ground pork or beef, crunchy cabbage, carrots, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, sesame oil, all wrapped in a wheat flour wrappers and then fried.
This is our healthier ''deconstructed'' version of an egg roll in a bowl recipe that is low-carb and keto without heavy deep frying. We love to add chili garlic or sriracha and top it all u with plenty of green onions.
Storage Instructions
Although I recommend eating this egg roll-in-a-bowl recipe right away it will still be delicious the next day.
- 🍱To Store. Store this egg roll dish in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days tops. Reheat the skillet over medium-low heat for a couple of minutes. If it seems to dry, add more light soy sauce or broth.
- 🥶Freezing leftovers. Place leftovers in an airtight freezer-safe storage container and freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw in the fridge.
- 🔥To Reheat. On the skillet over medium heat until just warmed through.
- Meal prep. This is one of the best dishes to make ahead that require almost no prep time. To make it extra easy: Use a bag of coleslaw mix, ground meat, and a mix of Asian sauces. When ready to make, brown the meat, stir in coleslaw, and drizzle with sauce. Let it warm through on the skillet and serve! You can even make a whole dish with just these three components.
👪Serving Suggestions
What goes good with egg rolls?
Traditional egg rolls are usually served with sweet and sour sauce, peanut sauce, chili garlic sauce, hoisin or other restaurant favorite dipping sauces.
For added nutrition, serve the egg roll bowl with Oriental coleslaw, fried rice, cauliflower or cilantro rice.
🤷Frequently Asked Questions
A classic egg roll typically consists of meat (usually pork, chicken, or shrimp), cabbage, onion, carrots, and beans. Despite the name, egg rolls don’t actually contain any eggs!
Our recipe doesn’t include egg, but you can certainly add scrambled egg or fried egg for additional nutrition.
Absolutely! You can reheat leftover egg roll stir fry in the microwave or on the stovetop over medium heat.
I wouldn't eat the classic egg rolls everyday. But I'd certainly eat a deconstructed egg roll in a bowl without the heavy deep frying. While the egg roll filling is nutritious, egg rolls are traditionally deep fried in oil. The combination of the deep frying and the dough-like wrapper makes it unhealthy indulgence than a nutritious option for a healthy dinner. And that isn’t even counting the dipping sauce served alongside egg rolls.
⏲️ Recommended Equipment
- Julienne slicer or Mandoline
- Nonstick Skillet or Wok
- Measuring cups and spoons
- Airtight Foodcontainers
- Mixing Bowls
I hope you enjoy easy egg roll in a bowl recipe!
Rita
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📖Recipe
Pork Egg Roll In A Bowl Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground pork
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil toasted
- 1 brown onion finely diced about ¾ cup
- 1 teaspoon fresh ginger grated
- ¾ cup carrot grated or matchsticks or julienne
- 6 garlic cloves about 1 tablespoon minced
- ¼ cup low sodium soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons sweet and sour sauce or garlic chili sauce
- 2 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 3 cup green cabbage shredded
- 1 ½ cup purple cabbage red cabbage shredded
- 6-8 green onion stalks sliced
- 1 cup mung beans rinsed and dried
- Salt to taste
- Black pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a large skillet over medium-high heat, saute onion until softened (5 minutes). Add in garlic, and ginger and saute further for 30 seconds, stirring constantly. You can use scallions here instead of regular onion.
- Add meat and cook until no longer pink. Stir in sweet and sour sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil and rice wine vinegar.
- Carefully top with shredded cabbage, and carrot and stir to combine. Let simmer for 3-4 minutes and add mung beans last.
- Stir in 2-3 tablespoons sliced green onions (optional or you can just leave them for garnish) and remove from heat.
- Serve with more green onions, sesame seeds, cilantro, sweet and sour or hot sauce, and a side portion of rice noodles, regular or brown rice.
Notes
- Although I recommend eating this egg roll in a bowl right away it will still be delicious on the next day.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days tops. Reheat the skillet over medium-low heat for a couple of minutes. If it's too dry, more soy sauce or broth.
- Freezing leftovers. Place leftovers in an airtight freezer-safe storage container and freeze for up to 3 months.
- I prefer to simmer the fresh cabbage for only a few minutes so that it’s soft but still has some crunch. The same applies to the mung beans, which I only add in at the last minute.
- Toasted sesame oil is intended for finishing a dish with flavor instead of being used as a cooking oil. You could saute the veggies using olive oil instead and add some sesame oil towards the end of the cooking time if you like. Many just use it from the start of the cooking process.
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