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Watch My Video: How to Make and Wrap Wontons
Small Bite with Big Flavor
Wonton is a type of Chinese dumpling. They come in small parcels and are available in many forms: steamed, deep-fried or in wonton soup.
What is inside of a wonton? The inside contains a savory meat or seafood filling and a special yellow color and rectangle wrapper wraps the filling inside a wonton. The yellow color comes from egg yolk as wonton wrappers do contain eggs.
Wontons Vs Dumplings
Many people are wondering what is the difference between a wonton and a dumpling? Simply put, wontons are dumplings. They are under the big umbrella of Chinese dumplings and they are a subset of dumplings.
What Is Fried Wonton?
Fried wontons are deep-fried to golden brown and popular in the Chinese restaurants here in the United States.
They are an appetizer and come with a pinkish-red Chinese sweet and sour dipping sauce. Everyone loves them because they are so crispy, delicious and the sweet and sour sauce makes them even more appetizing. Once you start eating, you just can’t stop!
My wontons recipe is very easy take less than 30 minutes to make at home. First of all, you make the filling. My recipe calls for a shrimp with ground pork filling. I added some water chestnuts for an extra crunch and texture.
You can also use chicken or turkey as the filling. You may add in some shrimp, scallop or crab if you like.
Next, you need to learn the basic technique of how to wrap Chinese dumplings by watching the video above. To deep-fry, make sure you use a neutral cooking oil such as vegetable oil. After deep-frying, make sure you drain the excess oil with paper towels.
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 311 calories per serving.
What Dishes to Serve with This Recipe?
This meal is best served as an appetizer. For a wholesome Chinese meal at home, I recommend the following recipes.
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Fried Wontons Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb. (250g) ground pork, chicken or turkey
- 1/4 lb. (115g) shrimp, chopped into small pieces
- 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce or fish sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 3 dashes ground white pepper
- 1 pack store-bought wonton wrappers
- water (for sealing)
- vegetable oil (for deep frying)
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix the ground pork, shrimp, soy sauce, sesame oil and white pepper together. Stir to combine well to form a sticky filling.
- To wrap the wontons, lay a piece of the wonton wrapper on your palm and add 1/2 tablespoon of the filling in the middle of the wrapper. (Use 1 teaspoon filling if you are a beginner.) Dip your index finger into the sealing water and trace it on the outer edges of the wonton wrapper.
- You can wrap the wontons three ways. To make a triangle, just fold it up to form a triangle. Pinch the edges to seal tight. To make them into the pretty shape (far left in the above picture), just pull the two corners of the triangle down so one overlaps the other, pinch and seal with water.
- To make them into Hong Kong style wonton (far right in the above picture), please watch my video at the top of this post.
- Heat up some oil for deep-frying. Once the oil is fully heated, deep fry the wontons until golden brown. Drain the excess oil with paper towels. Serve hot with Chinese sweet and sour sauce or Thai sweet chili sauce.
Notes
Nutrition
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Hi there,
This looks like a great recipe! Sorry if this is a silly question but are the shrimp cooked or raw? My store sells both so I wanted to get this right.
Thanks! Deb
Always raw.
Can I use some cream cheese and canned crab meat as won ton filling?
Thank you
Yes.
Cook them longer at a lower temp. Mine come out perfect every time. ? Remember your protein need to be ground.
Roughly how many water chestnuts are needed for above receipe?
No need water chestnuts.
Hi
Is it possible to only use shrimp, and can I boil this as well?
Yes, you can. Boil is fine.
how would you double the recipe? Would it be okay just to double all ingredients? Most wrappers come in a big stack and I LOVE this recipe, freeze and store for easy cooking! Thanks in advance!
Yes, you can double.
Is the meat stuffed raw? Will it cook by the time the wontons fry
Yes.
How did you make the MOST important ingredient- the won ton wrapper. You assumed everyone has them in their pantry.??. Perhaps a recipe or source should have been included.
I don’t assume everyone has the wonton wrapper in their pantry, you just need to go out and buy. You can try this recipe if you want to make it from scratch: https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-make-chinese-wonton-wrappers-4066655
Great recipe, Pete maybe you should use your brain cell and search the internet for wonton wrapper.
No need to be mean and nasty. It is a simple question. It’s sad to see how people cannot even interact on a cooking website without resorting to this behavior. There used to be a saying “If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all.”
Did you read Pete’s uncalled for comment?
Go to the store lol and buy some
I apologize for the harsh remark. For most of us, won ton wrapper is something easily accessible by purchasing them ready made from supermarkets or Chinese grocery stores. They did not realize that for some people, it is not a known thing. Nevermind, let me explain. Wonton wrapper is like spaghetti where most are bought off-shelf. No need to waste time making your own.
What an incredibly rude comment. You should be thanking the author for the recipe rather than complaining like an entitled, spoiled person.
There was a link in receipe to make ur own wontons..
These look so crispy and addicting! That may be the best kind of party. mmm ?
Can these Valentines be frozen and heat it up later also is it possible to bake them?
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Can I use an air fryer instead? If can, what do I need to do differently in order to get crispy wanton?
It *might* work in an air fryer if they have a light coating of oil or nonstick spray to try to get them to brown and crisp. If you don’t want to deep fry because the oil content, then brushing them with oil will still defeat the purpose… but will retain far less oil than the deep fried version.
I personally would try a couple lightly brushed with oil, and a couple sprayed with nonstick spray and see how it goes in the air fryer. Plan on pan fry/steam the rest if you don’t get good results.
I usually make a large batch and pan fry/steam half, and deep fry the other. I like them both ways but the fried version makes better left overs.
Hope that helps.
I can confirm they turn out really well in the air fryer! A quick spray with oil on both sides and they will be nice and crispy. I had them on for approx. 8 minutes at 180 deg celsius.
Ooh, I have tried airfying wontons before and the crisp just wasn’t right. I might’ve messed up by not spraying some oil. Important step.
I think air fryer food will never be crispy like hot oil deep-fried. It just doesn’t work that way.
yeh its more crispier