One of our favorite types of foods to eat was chinese. Sesame chicken, fried rice, and egg roll! Love it! Unfortunately, this is not very good for the diet - for me or my husband. Recently, I found a recipe on Pinterest for Eggroll in a Bowl and decided it looked interesting. Basically, it's all the filling of an eggroll without the greasy crispy wrapper. I had to give it a try.
It was delicious! The recipe called for beef, pork, or turkey, but I went with 99% lean ground chicken. To make things even easier on myself, I used the Dole bagged coleslaw (cabbage & carrot mix) instead of chopping the veggies. So much easier to open the bag and dump it in but still fresh veggies! It called for coconut aminos but I used lite reduced sodium soy sauce instead. I also used water instead of chicken broth.
My husband loved it! He even requested I make it again. To top it off, when I put all of my ingredients in Myfitnesspal it came out to 178 calories, 7g carbs, 3g fat, 29g protein, 653 sodium, and 6g sugar per serving. (Made 4 servings). It was filling too!
This can be adjusted for those who follow the THM diet (I do not.). Thanks to Big Taste, Trim Waist for this great recipe!
Egg Roll in a Bowl- S, E, or FP
Author: unknown
Recipe type: Dinner
Cuisine: Asian
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil (or oil of your choice if you don’t have sesame, but the sesame really makes the dish!)
- 1 lb. ground pork or beef (S) or lean ground turkey (E or FP)
- 6 cups finely sliced cabbage (about 1 medium head)
- 1 cup shredded carrots (4g carbs per ¼ cup serving so fine for this S meal)
- 1 medium onion
- chopped 3 cloves garlic
- finely chopped or minced 1 teaspoon ground ginger/ginger powder
- (if you choose fresh ginger for this recipe, you’ll need to use quite a bit and be sure it’s grated/minced very fine; I love fresh, but ground really works better in this recipe)
- ¼ cup coconut aminos (soy sauce alternative) or Bragg’s Amino
- Salt and black pepper to taste
- Chicken Broth
- Optional: 2-3 green onion stalks, finely chopped
- Optional: ¼ tsp red pepper flakes adds a nice kick!
Instructions
- Brown the ground pork (or beef) in large frying pan until fully cooked.
- Turn heat to medium-high and add chopped onion (not the green onions yet) and sesame oil, increase heat to lightly brown the onions.
- In a small bowl, mix together the garlic, ginger and aminos and add to pan, and then immediately add the sliced cabbage and stir.
- Cook for a few minutes, stirring often, so that it doesn’t burn and so all cabbage slightly wilts and reduces in size.
- Then add shredded carrots and cook for another few minutes.
- Turn off heat, add chopped green onions, salt and black pepper to taste, stir one last time and serve warm.
- Same great taste you’ll get in an eggroll, minus the deep fried wrapper, so MUCH healthier!
Notes
To make it E: Use extra lean meat instead (like 99% lean ground turkey, or skinless chicken breast – ground, chopped, or shredded) and because of the lack of juiciness (fat) from the meat, add ¼ cup of fat-free chicken stock (or water). To make it E: You may want to also add a bit more of the aminos and ginger, and feel free to add extra carrots too! Serve over brown rice. To make it FP: Use extra lean meat instead (like 99% lean ground turkey, or skinless chicken breast – ground, chopped, or shredded) and because of the lack of juiciness (fat) from the meat, add ¼ cup of fat-free chicken stock (or water). You may want to also add a bit more of the aminos and ginger. However, with the above said, it’s by far best as S using ground pork (not sausage!) or ground beef. ENJOY!
