Cream Cheese Wontons
Traditional dish with cream cheese, wrappers, sweet and sour sauce.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- intermediate
Ingredients
- 1 cup cream cheese
- 16 wonton wrappers
- to taste oil
- to taste sweet and sour sauce
Steps
- Heat oil in a deep-fat fryer or pour into a deep skillet on high temperature.
- While oil is heating, lay out as many wrappers as you plan to use.
- Have a small bowl of water nearby to wet your fingers.
- Put a small dab of cream cheese in one corner of each wrapper, about ½ inch from the edges.
- Use about 2 tsp for larger egg roll wrappers or 1 tsp for smaller wonton wrappers.
- Using your fingers, wet the two edges nearest the cream cheese.
- Fold the other half down.
- Seal the edges, making a triangle shape.
- Seal the edges tightly, but try to leave small gaps at the corners so the triangles will not expand so much that they burst.
- Drop several wontons into hot oil at a time.
- Turn over when the edges start to brown.
- Cook for another minute or two.
- Set on paper towels to drain.
- Serve hot with sweet-and-sour sauce.
Adapted from “Cream Cheese Wontons”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.