Southwestern Egg Rolls from Chili's Recipe - Food.com (2024)

FAQs

What are chilis egg rolls made of? ›

Crispy flour tortillas, chicken, black beans, corn, jalapeño Jack cheese, red peppers, spinach. Served with avocado-ranch.

Chili's Southwestern Eggrolls (1 serving) contains 82g total carbs, 74g net carbs, 41g fat, 28g protein, and 800 calories.

Taste Of Home Southwest Egg Rolls (1 egg roll) contains 6g total carbs, 6g net carbs, 2g fat, 2g protein, and 50 calories.

An egg roll is a fried, savory roll filled with shredded cabbage, ground or roast pork or shrimp and other ingredients inside a wonton wrapper or thick, wheat flour wrapper. Egg rolls are thought to have been invented in New York City's Chinatown restaurants in the 1930s.

Nutrition facts of egg rolls

Protein: 7.37 grams. Fat: 10.6 grams. Carbohydrates: 24.3 grams.

The overwhelming amount of net carbohydrates in an egg roll, which reach an estimated 24.69g per 100g serving, present a significant impediment on a diet that typically restricts daily net carbs to something between 20-50g.

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.

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.

Rice wraps can be found in most Asian stores or in the Asian aisle of grocery stores. The rice wraps typically comes in square and circle shape; I have always found it easier to wrap spring rolls using the square ones.

Unlike spring rolls, egg rolls are made with thick, doughy wrappers made with wheat flour and eggs. They blister up and become pocketed with delightful, oil-filled bubbles when deep-fried, making them simultaneously crunchy and chewy.

The black bean burger is offered as an alternative to any meat patty. But it contains egg and dairy, making it vegetarian, but unsuitable for the vegan label. This is the same burger used in the black bean and veggie fajitas mentioned above. The burger buns themselves are vegan and can be ordered separately.

This crispy egg roll recipe comes with an easy egg roll sauce for dipping. Learning how to use rice paper wrappers is simple – just dip them briefly in water, fill with shredded vegetables and protein, then fold into a tight roll and air fry or bake until crispy.