Easiest Way to Make Yummy Crab or beef wontons

Crab or beef wontons. Crab Rangoon, sometimes called crab puffs, crab rangoon puffs, or cheese wontons, are filled crisp dumpling appetizers served in American Chinese restaurants. The filling is made with a combination of cream cheese, crab meat or imitation crab meat, scallions or onion, garlic, and other flavorings. Ground beef filled wontons are great as a snack or meal, and always a hit as party finger food.

Fried wontons - Homemade, crispy and delicious wontons with simple everyday ingredients. You can also use chicken or turkey as the filling. You may add in some shrimp, scallop or crab if you like. You can cook Crab or beef wontons using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Crab or beef wontons

1. Prepare 2 packages of wonton wrappers.
2. You need 2 packages of cream cheese..softened.
3. It's 1 lb of fresh cooked crab..in pieces for the crab wontons.
4. Prepare 1 bunch of green onions.
5. Prepare 1 lb of if making beef ones than use stew meat or steak cut in small pieces.
6. Prepare 1 1/4 tsp of salt and pepper.
7. You need 1 of cooking oil...your choice.
8. It's 1 of cocktail sauce for dipping seafood wraps.
9. It's 1 of hot mustard or ranch for steak wraps.

Next, you need to learn the basic technique of how to wrap Chinese dumplings by watching the video. This crispy wontons appetizer recipe is filled with cream cheese and fresh crab. Great served with plum sauce for dipping. I have to talk about this crab meat for a minute.

Crab or beef wontons step by step

1. For beef. Cook in pan cut in small pieces.
2. Add meat to cream cheese and diced grn onions in bowl.
3. Add salt and pepper mix well.
4. Now for the fun part lay out wonton wrappers on counter add a small amount to middle of wrapper.
5. This should be step 6 After you have all wraps folded I recommend if doing layers on plate seperate with papertowels fry in oil in pan or deep fryer til golden brown.
6. This should be step 5 sorry new to this Now fold like an envelope sealing with fingers and water covering all edges so it sticks.
7. Set on papertowels to drain.
8. If using crab instead ( shrimp works too) its the same steps add all ingredients ...wrap....fry.
9. Use dipping sauces and enjoy....

I didn't think I really liked crab all that much. I doubled the recipe for these wontons, and I had some crab meat left over. Crab rangoon consists of wontons stuffed with a mixture of crab, cream cheese, garlic powder, green onions and Worcestershire sauce. The wontons are either baked or fried until golden brown and crispy and are often served with a dipping sauce. Wontons, dumplings and potstickers are the irresistible delicacies popular across China and various Some regions use beef as the fillings together with yellow chives.