Vegetable Egg Rolls
on Nov 26, 2022, Updated Aug 22, 2024
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My Vegetable Egg Rolls will be your new favorite recipe. If you love the crispy egg rolls that you get at 🥡 takeout places, you will absolutely love these. By making them in the air fryer, they get so crispy on the outside, without needing to deep-fry as they do at the restaurants. The veggie filling is packed, fresh, crisp, and colorful. And I love it dipped into my simple sweet and spicy dipping sauce. This is at-home takeout comfort food you can feel good about.
Why You’ll Love Vegetable Egg Rolls
These Vegetable Egg Rolls fit the bill when the spring roll craving hits, but you don’t love the idea of a deep-fried treat. And you’ll LOVE my shortcut: a bag of premade coleslaw mix! It’s a great combo of 🥦 broccoli, cabbage, and carrots, already shredded up for you. You can also add your own veggies to it, and use up what you need to from the fridge. Just finely slice or chop up those random 🫑 peppers, zucchini, or mushrooms and add them to the mix. These are air-fried, so they cook up super quickly and without a lot of oil, and the result is a super crispy bite with a fresh filling that’s full of deep umami flavor. Great for make-ahead too, these freeze (uncooked) like a dream!
How to Prepare
🔪 Use a sharp knife to finely dice the onions and garlic.
🧅To a pan on the stove, add the olive oil and sauté the garlic and onions until translucent.
🥦 Add the coleslaw mix, soy sauce, and hot honey and cook for about a minute.
🧂 Taste for salt and add more if needed.
❄️ Now, take the veggies off the heat and cool for a few minutes.
🥄 Now, place an egg roll wrapper on a plate and add a heaping tablespoon of the filling to the middle.
🌀 Fold the right and left sides of the wrapper over the filling. Now take the opposite side of the wrapper, which is facing you, and roll it forward making sure to keep that filling tight. Then roll it all the way to the end.
👩🍳 Repeat this step until all the filling is used.
🥑 Spray each roll with avocado oil spray and place it in the air fryer.
♨️ Cook the Vegetable Egg Rolls at 400F (200C) for 8 minutes flipping halfway through.
🍁 In a bowl, make your dipping sauce by stirring together the maple syrup with soy sauce and sriracha to taste. Enjoy!
Nonna’s Tip 🥦
As a major shortcut, I use a prepackaged broccoli slaw mix, which has shredded broccoli, cabbage, and carrots. You can also purchase and shred/finely slice your ingredients as well.
Variations and Substitutions for Vegetable Egg Rolls
- You can fill the egg rolls with any veggies you enjoy, such as 🍄 mushrooms, green onions, peppers, or bean sprouts.
- I use the prepackaged 🥦 broccoli slaw mix as a shortcut to make the filling, but you can use whatever you enjoy.
- If you don’t have an air-fryer you can shallow-fry them in a pan with oil until golden on each side.
- I have not tried baking these so let me know if you try. If I was to bake these I would preheat the oven to 425F (220C). Take a baking sheet and place a wire rack on top of it. Spray the rolls or brush them on each side with a small amount of oil and bake them for 10 minutes on each side or until golden.
- You can add a protein to the mix, such as tofu, ground meat, or 🦐 shrimp.
- To make this recipe gluten-free, use gluten-free egg roll wrappers and use tamari or coconut aminos instead of the soy sauce.
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Best Served With
- Sere these Vegetable Egg Rolls with a 🥡 take-out inspired protein, such as Coconut Shrimp Recipe, Teriyaki Salmon Skewers, or Chicken Bake Cups.
- Serve alongside one of my delicious 🥣 bowls, such as Healthy Shrimp Bowl, Spicy Salmon Poke Bowl, or Tuna Poke Bowl.
- Serve with a side of Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe,
Common Questions
These Vegetable Egg Rolls are a great way to use up random, wilting veggies in the fridge, too. Try sliced peppers, mushrooms, bean sprouts, and green onions as well.
Great idea! Finely chopped tofu would be nice, as would ground meat or baby shrimp.
I used a broccoli slaw mix, which has shredded broccoli, cabbage, and carrots. You can purchase or shred/finely slice your own ingredients as well.
I have the COSORI Pro II Air Fryer Oven Combo. The recipe time and temperature vary by appliance, so please keep an eye on the Vegetable Egg Rolls as they cook.
I haven’t tried this personally, but I think it would still be delicious. Preheat the oven to 425F (220C) and place a wire rack on top of a baking sheet. Spray the rolls with a small amount of oil and then bake for 10 minutes on each side or until golden.
You can certainly shallow-fry them in a pan with oil until golden on each side.
To make this recipe gluten-free, use gluten-free egg roll wrappers and use tamari or coconut aminos instead of soy sauce.
Yes, you can freeze the assembled egg rolls before cooking them. Place them on a baking sheet to freeze individually, then transfer them to a freezer bag. Cook them directly from frozen in the air fryer or oven, adding a few extra minutes to the cooking time.
Vegetable Egg Rolls
Instructions
- To a pan on the stove, add the olive oil and sauté the garlic and onions until translucent.
- Add the coleslaw mix, soy sauce, and hot honey. Give it a stir for about a minute but don't cook it for too long as we want a bite to the veggies. You can add a tiny pinch of salt if the veggies are lacking salt.
- Be sure to taste and adjust the soy sauce as it can be salty. You can also use coconut aminos or tamari. Take the veggies off the heat.
- Take out the egg-roll wrappers and place a wrapper on a plate. Add a heaping tablespoon of the filling to the middle. Fold the right and left side of the wrapper over the filling. Now take the opposite side of the wrapper, which is facing you, and roll it forward making sure to keep that filling tight. Roll it all the way to the end.
- Do this exact step with the remaining egg wrappers until the filling is all done. There are other ways of rolling egg rolls so feel free to use any you feel comfortable with.
- Spray each roll with avocado oil spray and place it in the air-fryer. Cook at 400F (200C) for 8 minutes flipping halfway through. Keep an eye on them as some air-fryer can take less/more time.
- In a bowl mix 1/4 cup maple syrup with soy sauce and sriracha to taste. Enjoy!
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Nutrition
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Makin these right now lol
I’m the air fryer lol
Thank you for your awesome comments , tips, and best of all recipes
Hope you loved them hun 🙂
Looks so easy to make! Never thought to air fry… I usually oil fry.
I will have to get an air fryer and try this!
Let me know how it was ❤️