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spring roll in a bowl with cucumbers shrimp cilantro carrots and mint all in a white bowl with various ingredients surrounding it
Kyrie | Healthfully Rooted Home

Spring Roll In a Bowl

Have a fresh spring roll in a bowl using simple, healthy ingredients. You can whip this meal up in no time and meal prep it for later!
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings: 6 bowls
Course: dinner, lunch, Main Course
Cuisine: Chinese
Calories: 550
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Pickled Cucumbers
  • 2 cups cucumbers
  • 3/4 cup filtered water
  • 3/4 cup rice vinegar
  • 2 tsp sea salt
  • 2 tbs coconut sugar
Spring Roll Bowls
  • 1 lb cooked and frozen shrimp defrosted
  • 12 oz rice noodles
  • 2 large carrots shredded
  • 1/4 cup cilantro chopped
  • 3 tbs mint leaves chopped
  • 3 green onions sliced
Peanut Sauce
  • 3/4 cup peanut butter no sugar added
  • 6 tbs filtered water more to thin sauce out to desired consistency
  • 3 tbs coconut aminos
  • 3 tsp sesame oil
  • 2 tbs sweet chili thai sauce

Equipment

  • 1 Wooden cutting board
  • 1 Chef's knife
  • 1 pot (to boil water for rice noodles)
  • bowls for serving and storing

Method
 

  1. Make your pickled cucumbers either the night before, or first thing when you start the recipe. The longer you pickle them, the more flavorful they'll be. Just combine the water, rice vinegar, salt and coconut sugar in a bowl and add your cucumbers. If you're pickeling them the night before, then place in an airtight container in the fridge. If not, then just set aside.
  2. Defrost your cooked shrimp by running under cold water.
  3. Make your rice noodles according to the package directions.
  4. While your noddles are cooking, prep all your vegetables by chopping, shredding and dicing.
  5. Make your peanut sauce by combining all the ingredients and thinning out with water until you reach your desired consistency. I like mine pretty thin so I can drizzle it over the spring roll bowls.
  6. Assemble your bowls by placing the rice noodles in the bottom of the bowl, drizzle the rice with peanut sauce, then top with all your ingredients and drizzle with more peanut sauce.

Notes

how to store spring roll in a bowl

You can store your spring roll bowls in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. This makes them so easy to meal prep because you don't even need to heat them up when you're ready to eat them. This dish is best enjoyed cold.

spring roll in a bowl Tips

  1. Meal prep - This is a great meal to prep ahead of time for lunches or dinners. Simply prep all the ingredients as instructed, then assemble several bowls in air-tight containers. Then pop them in the fridge and remove them when ready to enjoy.
  2. Cooked shrimp - I like using cooked shrimp for this recipe since the bowls are cold anyway. All I do is buy the frozen shrimp that's precooked, then defrost under cold running water when I'm ready to make the bowls.
  3. Pickled cucumbers - Make the pickled cucumbers as far in advance as possible. This doesn't necessarily have to be done the night before, but could even be done in the morning before making the bowls. You could also just pickle them as you prep all the other ingredients and they're still delicious!

spring roll in a bowl substitutions

Egg roll in a bowl

Egg roll bowls are also delicious! For this, you just use some browned ground turkey, shredded cabbage, carrot mixture, and a sauce made with coconut aminos served warm. I have a video for that above.

Salmon bowls

Substitute the shrimp for salmon and make salmon bowls using all the same ingredients.

Lettuce Wraps

Make these spring roll bowls into lettuce wraps by taking a piece of butter lettuce and placing all the ingredients inside.

Shrimpless bowls

You can omit the shrimp entirely to make this a meatless meal - perfect for meatless Monday, or if you just want to save money!

Substitute the veggies

If you have other veggies you prefer you can totally use those in addition or in place of any of the vegetables I recommend.

Change up the sauce

I love peanut sauce on this recipe because it adds creaminess to the fresh bowl, but you can use any other sauce you'd like.

Switch the Noodles for rice

Jasmine brown rice would also be great in place of the rice noodles for these spring rolls in a bowl.