a Chinese-American dish consisting of egg dough filled with a minced mixture of pork, bamboo shoots, onions, etc, and browned in deep fat
egg roll in American English
US
a Chinese-American dish consisting of a thin egg pancake wrapped around minced vegetables, meat, shrimp, etc. to form a small roll that is fried in deep fat
Examples of 'egg roll' in a sentence
egg roll
Next I had a massive bacon and egg roll.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Fried egg roll and bacon Fry an egg in a non-stick pan brushed with a little oil.
The Sun (2014)
I was there; my son arrived on a flying visit from university; and my husband was eating a scrambled egg roll.