Egg Rolls & Dips {Girl’s Night In Snacking Ideas}
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My daughter and I are notorious double-dippers! We try our darndest to be on our best single-dipper game when we are around friends and family. However, when our only witnesses are our dogs, sometimes we even manage to up our double-dipping game to … triple-dipping! Gross yes? Not to us! You see, we double dip because the dip (or dips) in front of us are just so good that the crudites or chips that transport the dip to our pie holes are mere vessels!
But, ever so often, we stumble on a “vessel” that blows our socks off! A “vessel” that’s so “Vantastic” that instead of double-dipping, we end up chowing down on said dipper without even dipping it! Shocker huh?! One such “vessel” we stumbled on sometime ago was Van’s Kitchen egg rolls. However, the pack we had to share then was a 5-pack and well, dips were flung as we tried to figure out the whole sharing thingie!
However, this past weekend, my daughter and I came across a 4-pack of Van’s Kitchen egg rolls when we were stocking up on supplies for our mom-daughter-girl’s-night-in at our neighborhood Kroger. An easily dividable, 4-pack! Yes!
All I needed to do was whip us up a few tasty dips and sneak veggies into them – much like Van’s Kitchen Egg rolls have managed to do, and we had our movie-grub on! To accompany Van’s Kitchen egg rolls, I whipped up some Apple Chutney Dip, Curried Pumpkin Dip, Tomato Pineapple Dip, and Avocado Spinach Dip – delicious, but, definitely not double-dip worthy next to Van’s Kitchen egg rolls!
Trying to make sure my daughter has the needed sharing skills the most of the time I have with my daughter before she goes off to college, means I don’t always have time to whip up a meal from scratch for our girl’s-night-in-movie-nights. And, at those times I feel good about heating up and serving family-owned and operated, Van’s Kitchen egg rolls as they are chock full of freshly chopped carrots, onions, celery and cabbage and 100% white meat chicken, lean cuts of premium pork or delicious bites of shrimp. They are rolled in a custom made thin crispy wrapper with their special blend of Asian seasoning! Van’s Kitchen egg rolls also happen to be low in fat, calories, and sugar content and do not contain any MSG.
Van’s Kitchen was started in 1986 by Van Nguyen and his wife who came to the US from Vietnam. And, today, their daughter makes sure that Van’s Kitchen continues to live up to their motto of “Honest food made the honorable way” by continuing to churn out high-quality, affordable, authentic, delicious food, that “exceeds expectations with every bite!”
By the way, have y’all had the chance to try Van’s Kitchen egg rolls?
Right now when you join their Club Vantastic you can receive a $1 off coupon for 2 packages
(but, as a fan, I say why stop at two?!)
Also, make sure to check out Van’s Kitchen on Facebook for more information and recipe inspiration!
Ingredients
Curried Tomato Pineapple Dip
- 1/4 cup coconut milk
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- 3 pineapple slices
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt and pepper
Apple Chutney Dip
- 1 green apple peeled, seeded, and chopped
- 1/4 onion
- 1/4 cup orange juice I used freshly squeezed
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1/8 teaspoon each salt and pepper
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
Curried Pumpkin Dip
- 1/4 cup coconut milk
- 3 tablespoons 100% pumpkin puree
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1/8 teaspoon each salt and pepper
- 1/4 onion
Avocado Spinach Dip
- 1/4 cup coconut milk
- 1/4 cup packed spinach
- 1/2 avocado
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/8 teaspoon each salt and pepper
Instructions
Curried Tomato Pineapple Dip
- Add coconut milk, tomato paste, pineapple slices, curry powder, salt and pepper to a blender and blend till well incorporated and serve (optional: heat up before serving)
Apple Chutney Dip
- Add apple, onion, orange juice, apple cider vinegar, curry powder, salt and pepper, honey and ginger to a saucepan and simmer for about 10 minutes. Then add to a blender and pulse till dip is roughly chopped up.
Curried Pumpkin Dip
- Add coconut milk, pumpkin puree, curry powder, salt and pepper and onion to a blender and blend till well incorporated (optional: heat up before serving)
Avocado Spinach Dip
- Add coconut milk, spinach, avocado, lemon juice, salt and pepper to a blender and blend till creamy, serve cool or room temperature.
Allow me being honest, but those dips are so much better than those egg rolls…
Wow, I don’t even know where to begin here, Shashi! Those dips sound incredible (especially the curried pumpkin)! But then the eggrolls sound amazing, too. I agree that most things are just suitable as vessels for something else. That fits Laura’s description of cake. The cake portion is just a vessel for more frosting. But in this case, I think I might just have to enjoy those eggrolls as they are and then eat the dips with a spoon. Haha! ๐
Yup, you both are the notorious ladies – agreed. I’ve got a little thing about dips too. When it comes to a dip, I don’t need any edible vessels except a spoon. So you can often find me eating a dip (especially hummus) straight off a spoon! Try it – it’s much more delicious than with flatbread. I really am unstoppable when I have a dip (If I make or buy one, it’s quite likely I won’t stop until it’s gone. That takes 27,5 minutes (average):) I like all the dips here, and especially the pumpkin one. Although I’m not a huge fan of curry, this combo sounds great! Well done, Shashi. Well, give me a big spoon now please:))
All of these dips look amazing, but the Apple Chutney really caught my attention! Perfect recipe for one of the apples we picked this weekend! #client
Nothing wrong with a little double dipping once in a while! Love these dips!
I’ve never rolled with the egg rolls before – how crazy is that?!
That Avocado and Spinach Dip sounds divine and I have the ingredients ready to go at home!