Egg roll in a bowl is such a delicious recipe that is filled with ground meat, rice vinegar, cabbage, and those tasty egg roll sauce flavors – no egg roll wrappers necessary.
Everything you love about an egg roll that is normally fried, but you can now have it healthier as egg roll bowls. The whole family enjoys this recipe, you can even serve it with some white rice or brown rice for an extra side dish recipe.
This is also a great dinner recipe for meal prep if you are into making up a meal plan for the week since it is easy to make up quickly and has great flavor and simple ingredients.
Recipe Ingredients:
- Oil: you will need to have sesame oil and olive oil on hand
- Sauce: rice wine vinegar and low-sodium soy sauce will add great flavors to the easy egg roll recipe
- Meat: we love to use ground chicken for this recipe
- Seasoning: black pepper is all you’ll need
- Vegetable: fresh raw coleslaw or a bag of coleslaw mix
- Toppings: we enjoy chopped green onions either fresh from the garden or from the grocery store
How To Make Egg Roll In A Bowl:
- In a large skillet over low heat combine the sesame oil, olive oil, rice wine vinegar, and low sodium soy sauce. Whisk until fully combined.
- Add your ground chicken, and let it brown, and cook completely through, in the sauce mixture, on low.
- Sprinkle pepper over the meat and sauce mixture.
- Add your coleslaw and continue to stir and push around the pan, until it goes soft, but not mushy. This usually takes about 3-4 minutes to cook it.
- Garnish with green onions, and serve.
Optional Add-ins
- cauliflower rice
- broccoli or broccoli slaw
- carrots
- zucchini
- radishes
- snow peas
- shiitake mushrooms
- sriracha sauce
- red pepper flakes
- sesame seeds
- diced bell peppers
- water chestnuts
Expert tips for making this quick weeknight dinner recipe:
If you can’t have soy sauce, you can substitute coconut aminos 1:1 in this recipe. It adds just a little bit of sweetness to the flavor, too.
FAQs:
Yes! You can either omit the ground chicken and replace it with your favorite beyond-meat choice, tofu, or you can just skip the protein and work the rest of the ingredients.
While we enjoy using ground chicken, you don’t need to limit this egg roll bowl recipe to that. You can always use ground turkey, ground pork, or lean ground beef too!
While this is called an egg roll recipe, you don’t need to add eggs to this easy dinner recipe. However, if you want to, you can add some scrambled egg or even a fried egg over top if you want.
Storage Instructions:
Fridge: If you have any leftovers from this easy recipe, place them in an airtight container and store them for 3-4 days in the fridge. I would not suggest freezing this recipe though.
More egg roll recipes:
- Baked Southwest Egg Rolls Recipe
- Baked Avocado Egg Rolls Recipe
- Instant Pot Egg Roll Bowls Recipe
- Turkey Egg Roll Skillet Recipe
- Chicken Mango Egg Rolls
Egg Roll in a Bowl
Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoons sesame oil
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 Tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 Tablespoon low sodium soy sauce
- 1 pound ground chicken
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- 6 cups raw coleslaw
- 8 green onions, chopped
Equipment
Instructions
- In a pan over low heat combine the sesame oil, olive oil, rice wine vinegar, and low sodium soy sauce. Whisk until fully combined.
- Add your ground chicken, and let it brown and cook completely through, in the sauce mixture, on low.
- Sprinkle pepper over the meat and sauce mixture.
- Add your coleslaw and continue to stir and push around the pan, until it goes soft, but not mushy. This usually takes about 3-4 minutes to cook it.
- Garnish with green onions, and serve.
Notes
- riced cauliflower
- broccoli
- carrots
- zucchini
- radishes
- snow peas
Nutrition
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So when you say raw Cole slaw, is that basically just cabbage? I’ve never bought Cole slaw before. 😄 Does it have dressing or anything else on it or just the veggies?
You can buy bagged Cole slaw in the produce department at your local grocery store.
Looks delicious! Is this best served warm or cold? What’s the best way to store leftovers?
We like to serve this warm. Store leftovers in an airtight container.
This is a good recipe as-is but I felt like it was missing something. It then occurred to me that there was no ginger or garlic – both musts in Asian cooking. Add those two ingredients and maybe swap out the black pepper for white and it’s perfect!
I made this with ground turkey, and we loved it! Served it with brown rice and additional soy sauce. Will definitely make it again.
I made the recipe as stated but did not have sesame oil, so added sesame seeds. Also added chopped sugar snap peas. Was very good! Will try again, adding other veggies as suggested next time.
I use breakfast sausage, and also add ginger and garlic. It’s worth using these extra ingredients. So much tastier!
I loved the ease of this recipe. I made this tonight for a beach lunch tomorrow. Also, I added a teaspoon of ground ginger to add more flavor.