The Kitchen Wife: Egg Roll in a Bowl Recipe (2024)

FAQs

Which is healthier, spring roll or egg roll? ›

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.

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.

Sure, there are veggies in the filling. 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.

An egg roll is a fried appetizer that's found on countless Chinese-American restaurant menus. It consists of a thick, crispy wheat flour skin filled with shredded cabbage, pork, and other ingredients. Egg rolls are fried in hot oil, served warm, and usually dipped in duck sauce or soy sauce.

Peanut oil is great for frying egg rolls as it has a high smoking point and provides a nutty flavor. If you don't have it on hand, you can use canola or corn oil. Do not use oils like sesame oil or olive oil, as they are not good candidates for deep-frying due to their low smoking point.

Deep-fried egg rolls, fried rice, and a main dish dripping in oily sauce make this meal an unhealthy choice. The total sodium in this type of meal is more than most people with diabetes should have over 3 days. Beware the MSG (monosodium glutamate), a seasoning that sends the sodium content soaring.

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. Spring rolls have a more delicate, thin skin and use a spring roll wrapper. Filling: Egg rolls typically contain cabbage and meat.

According to Coe, Low's recipe, printed in a 1938 cookbook, Cook at Home in Chinese, included "bamboo shoots, roast pork, shrimp, scallions, water chestnuts, salt, MSG, sugar, palm oil, and pepper," but notably did not include cabbage, which is the main filling ingredient in modern egg rolls.

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The first documented reference to a deep fried egg roll may be in 1934, although it allegedly existed prior to that. Perhaps as early as 1925. The first alleged inventor was Henry Low, who started working at the famous Port Arthur Restaurant in New York's Chinatown in 1928.

Do Japanese eat egg rolls? ›

Harumaki (or spring roll actually in Japanese) are deep-fried egg rolls which are known well in Chinese cuisine in the US. Many people who are not familiar with much Japanese food may even have had Harumaki at some point of life. Harumaki is also a popular Chinese dish in Japan, similar to Gyoza dumplings.

High in saturated fat and carbs

The 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that most people consume no more than 10% of their calories per day from saturated fat. It's easy to exceed this recommendation by eating more than one egg roll ( 3 ).

An egg roll is a delicious and popular appetiser but it can be high in calories and fat when made with traditional ingredients. However, with a few substitutions and modifications, you can prepare a healthier version of this beloved dish.

Filling. Pork, cabbage, carrots, celery, seasoning (sugar, salt, natural flavor, garlic powder, natural spice, yeast extract), soybean and/or cottonseed oils, cornstarch, textured vegetable protein, sesame oil (soybean oil, sesame oil), onions, natural flavor enhancer (natural flavor, maltodextrin).

Contrary to popular belief, the egg isn't necessary to make an egg roll, even though it does have it in its name. The traditional egg roll recipe uses egg in the dough, but most recipes don't call for it anymore; modern egg rolls are usually made up of mixed meat and vegetables wrapped in a rice paper wrapper.

Chicken Eggrolls feature a delicious filling of chicken, cabbage, carrots and onions wrapped in a crispy, delicate whole grain rich wrapper.

That's why, unlike spring rolls, egg rolls always have cooked fillings, and almost always include meat. Vegetable egg rolls can be equally hearty though, with a cooked combination of savory veggies like cabbage, celery and onion, plus plenty of seasoning.