Egg Roll in a Bowl--an Easy One Pan Family-friendly Meal (2024)

Posted onJanuary 26, 2017January 19, 2022Updated onJanuary 19, 2022

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This Egg Roll in a Bowl is a one pan meal that’s super healthy, loaded with veggies, flavorful, and ready in less than 30 minutes! What more could you want?

Whether you serve it on top of rice, cauliflower rice, or eat it on its own, it’s gluten-free and easily adaptable for any special diet. So whether you’re keto, paleo, AIP, whole30, or even vegan, you’ll want to make room for this healthy comfort meal in your rotation.

Featured Reader Review

Thank you so much for this recipe! It is so delicious! I made a double batch thinking I would freeze it for later… uh.. I just ended up eating every day until it was gone.

While it’s tempting to want to be like Martha Stewart where we’re either making our own egg rolls (or even going so far as making the egg roll wrappers themselves), let’s face it. Getting any healthy dinner at all on the table can be a feat, and most of us don’t have time for things like rolling egg rolls.

In fact, I bet if I tried, most of them would unroll themselves, resulting in egg roll messiness.

So I figure why not save time, avoid stress, and go straight for the mess.

That’s what this dish does. It’s the “Ain’t Nobody Got Time for Rolling Egg Rolls” dish but it still tastes great.

This truly is one of the best easy meals you’ll ever make, plus you can make it all in just one pan so it’s an easy clean up meal too.

Make it with precut packaged veggie slaw, and even Martha might commend you on your genius time savings skills.

Why You Want This Recipe In Your Life

Do you often find yourself at 4:00 or 4:30 wondering (aka despairing) “What’s for Dinner?!”

Just take my word for it and add this to your recipe box now. Here’s why you should…

• It’s an easy one pan meal (which means easy cleanup)
• It’s super healthy–loaded with veggies
• It’s so good you just might find yourself fighting your family over it. It’s happened here!

Bonus–it also makes great leftovers and even tastes great cold. Egg Roll insides for breakfast? Yes, please! Seriously this even tastes BETTER with time.

However, take note that according to this reader, you might have to make a TRIPLE (or quadruple) batch in order to be able to have anything left to freeze.

The dish also freezes well and though I haven’t done it myself, you can even make it in a slow cooker or Instant Pot.

It also makes a great side dish if you omit the meat. Any way you serve it up, it’s sure to please.

My Favorite Pan for This Recipe

Some readers have asked me what kind of a pan I use for this dish. This is the pan I use each and every time.

I use it for all sorts of healthy recipes, such as my Honey Bunches of Oats Coconut Chips, Healthy Chili Mac, andCaramelized Coconut Chips.

So now that I’m writing how much I LOVE this pan, I think I need another one–or two.

Ingredients

Here’s a list of what you’ll need to make this dish. For measurements and more details, see the Printable Recipe Card below.

• ground beef(or turkey, chicken, or game meat)
• onions(finely chopped / minced)
• unrefined sesame oil(use another oil for AIP)
• ginger(powdered)
• black pepper(omit for AIP)
• garlic granules(or 4 cloves garlic, minced)
• salt
• stevia extract(optional – See Recipe Notes)
• crushed red pepper(optional. Omit for AIP)
• white wine(omit or substitute more broth for AIP)
• beef broth(see vegan option in Substitution Options)
• cabbage
• carrot
• tamari(see Substitute Option above)
• Green onion for garnish(optional)
• Cauliflower Rice(or rice–optional–for serving)

Directions

Here are basic instructions for this recipe. For more details, please see the Printable Recipe Card below.

• Place meat in pan and cook.
• Add the onions, garlic, and sesame oil. Cook until lightly browned.
• Reduce heat.
• Add spices, sweetener, red pepper, wine, and broth to the pan. Stir.
• Add cabbage and stir.
• Cook until the cabbage slightly wilts.
• Add carrots and cook until soft.
• Add tamari and adjust flavorings as desired.
• Serve.
• Garnish with green onions if desired.

How to Serve

This dish is great on its own, but we love serving it with cauliflower rice for a low-carb meal. Of course it’s great on regular rice as well.

You could also put this in wraps and eat it temaki style, or in gluten-free egg roll wrappers for fun (without having to roll them up perfectly, of course). These keto / low-carb wraps would be a great too.

Topping Suggestions

I’ve put some of this Dairy-free Ranch on this dish and it’s tasted great. But this Homemade Chick-fil-A Sauce is a amazing drizzled on top.

You can even combine the two, or just drizzle some of both.

Some readers have added scrambled egg, while others have added fried noodles (gluten-free or regular). So many great options!

Special Diet Options / Substitutions

This Healthy Eggroll in a Bowl is already a clean-eating recipe, but it’s more than just that–it’s easily adaptable for special diets.

• Keto: Substitute additional cabbage or another low carb veggie for the carrots and make sure to use soy sauce or tamari and not the coconut amino option.
• AIP (autoimmune protocol) or Paleo: Substitute coconut aminos for the tamari. Use coconut sugar or maple syrup (read Choosing Maple Syrup) or honey for the sweetener.
• Vegan: You can make this dish vegan simply without the meat or you could add a legume of your liking and in place of the broth use a vegetable broth like this one. Here’s my Vegetable Broth Mix for a DIY option. If you choose to use a broth that contains sodium, you may want to reduce the salt in the recipe.
• Gluten-free: This recipe, as written, is a gluten-free egg roll in a bowl as long as you use a gluten-free soy sauce or tamari, or the coconut amino option.
• THM: If you’re on the Trim Healthy Mama plan, this is an S, E, or FP. It’s an S with beef or pork, and E or FP with lean chicken or turkey. Served with rice, it’s an E.
  In my opinion, this recipe tastes best as an S. However, you can use lean meat and reduce the fat to 2 teaspoons, and use fat-free broth to make it an E and of course you can add extra carrots if desired, but you might want to add a bit more broth. With rice, it’s a crossover. With cauliflower rice, or plain, and with beef or sausage, it’s an S.
• Beef Alternatives: For the ground beef, you can substitute ground or finely-chopped chicken, or pork. I HIGHLY recommend using quality meat–grass-fed if possible.
• Tamari Alternatives: You can substitute either soy sauce or liquid aminos for the tamari.

Recipe Notes

• Sesame Oil: Yes, you can use another oil, but it just won’t be the same. Trust me. For sesame oil, you want to buy araw version, since cooking with toasted sesame oil makes the oil bitter. You would only want to buy toasted sesame oil if you would like to drizzle it on top of the egg roll after cooking it.
• Cabbage Buying Tip: One medium head of cabbage yields about 8 – 8.5 cups so plan accordingly.
• Soy Sauce / Tamari Tips: Personally I like tamari more than soy sauce. Tamari is richer tasting and has less gluten than regular soy sauce. You can even buy gluten-free tamari, which is the best of both worlds! Since soy is almost always GMO, if you’re going to use soy sauce, I recommend choosing organic soy sauce.
• Homemade Broth: If you’d prefer to make your own broth, see Homemade Broth Tips.
• Sweetener Alternatives: Instead of stevia, you can use 4 tablespoons of almost any other sweetener.

More Easy Healthy Meals You’ll Love

Here are some more family pleasing meals you can get on the table and into your family’s bellies fast.

• Super Fast Indian Lentils–ready in only 9 minutes!
• Healthy Hamburger Helper Beef Skillet–better than the box!
• Easy Baked Chicken Nuggets–everyone loves these (check out the amazing reviews!)
• Gluten-free Chili Mac–another one pan meal that’s sure to please

I’m sure this Healthy Egg Roll in a Bowl will be a dish that you’ll want to add to your family’s menu often.

More Easy Healthy Meals

Gluten-free Chili Mac

Easy Baked Chicken Nuggets

Easy Indian Lentil Curry

Ground Beef Curry

Korean Fried Cauliflower Rice

I’d love to hear what you think about this recipe.
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