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Egg roll

A food made made by wrapping a combination of chopped vegetables, possibly meat, and sometimes noodles, in a sheet of dough, dipping the dough in egg or an egg wash, then deep frying it.

📖 Definitions of "Egg roll"

noun
  1. 1

    A food made made by wrapping a combination of chopped vegetables, possibly meat, and sometimes noodles, in a sheet of dough, dipping the dough in egg or an egg wash, then deep frying it.

  2. 2

    In many Asian countries and among their emigrants, an egg-based, flute-shaped pastry, with typically yellowish, flaky crust, often eaten as a sweet snack or dessert; a crispy biscuit roll.

  3. 3

    An instance of the egg rolling tradition.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Egg roll"

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spring rollnounA type of savoury food consisting of shredded vegetables wrapped in a pancake made from rice flour and then fried.
eggrollnounAlternative spelling of egg roll. [A food made made by wrapping a combination of chopped vegetables, possibly meat, and sometimes noodles, in a sheet of dough, dipping the dough in egg or an egg wash, then deep frying it.]
summer rollnoun(cooking) Gỏi cuốn, a Vietnamese roll made of pork, prawn, vegetables, rice vermicelli, and other ingredients wrapped in rice paper.
cabbage rollnoun(food) A dish consisting of cooked cabbage leaves wrapped around a variety of fillings.
chicken rollnoun(uncountable) Processed chicken meat sold in thin circular slices.
banana rollnounA Chinese pastry made with glutinous rice and flavored with banana oil, sometimes with a filling such as diced banana, cinnamon swirl, or red bean paste.
crab rangoonnounA deep-fried dumpling in American Asian cuisine, stuffed with cream cheese, crab meat, and scallions or garlic.
pizza rollnoun(mostly in plural) A frozen food, a bite-sized breaded pizza pocket filled with tomato sauce, cheese, etc.
peking raviolinounJiaozi.
rangoonnoun(historical) Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar before Naypyidaw was made the capital in 2006.
dumplingnoun(cooking) A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough.
rollatininounAn Italian-style dish made with thin slices of meat or eggplant dusted in wheat flour or lightly breaded and covered with ricotta, then rolled up and baked.
dragon rollnounA kind of inverted sushi roll, with nori on the inside and rice on the outside.
hand rollnounAlternative form of handroll. [A piece of sushi in the form of a cone of seaweed filled with rice, fish, vegetables etc.]
bread rollnounA miniature round loaf of bread, often accompanying a meal.
handrollnounA piece of sushi in the form of a cone of seaweed filled with rice, fish, vegetables etc.
dinner rollnounA bread roll served with a meal.
pork rollnoun(US, uncountable) A processed pork product commonly consumed for breakfast in the Northeast.
roll upverb(intransitive) To arrive by vehicle, usually by car.
cheese rollnounA snack food common in Otago-Southland, New Zealand, similar to Welsh rarebit, created by covering a slice of bread in a prepared filling consisting mainly of grated or sliced cheese, and then rolling it into a tube shape before toasting.

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