Fried Wonton Recipe - Khin's Kitchen (2024)

Crispy Fried Wonton Recipe with juicy chicken fillings and crispy coating. In this recipe, you will learn how to make homemade crispy wonton with simple cupboard-friendly ingredients!

These crispy bites are super addictive and taste way better than regular takeout wontons! You can make prep-ahead and fry it just before serving. Perfect appetizer or finger food to serve at your parties, dinners, or gatherings!

Fried wonton is also one of the most popular Chinese restaurant appetizers, loved by many people across the world. You will need 3 basic key ingredients, wonton wrappers, minced meat, and simple seasoning ingredients.

You can deep fry these wontons or you can steam, boil, or add in soups and noodles. Here is more of our Wonton Soup, and Wonton in Chilli Oil Recipes you can try out!

Ingredients

• Wonton wrappers: Are made from wheat flour, egg, and water and are ideal for making wonton recipes. It has a delicate thin texture and comes in yellow colour square sheets. You can buy it at Chinese grocery stores or Oriental Asian supermarkets.
• Ground meat: I used ground chicken in this recipe. Add your choice of minced meat, such as chicken, turkey, pork, lamb, prawns/shrimp, etc. You can also add a combination of minced meat and minced seafood. Ground pork and shrimp is a popular wonton filling option.
• Vegetables: Spring onions, freshly grated garlic and ginger and essential filling ingredients. Grated carrots and cabbage can be also added.
• Seasonings: Simply season the fillings with soy sauce, sesame oil, and white pepper.
• Cornstarch: you can either add cornstarch or potato starch to the fillings. It helps to bind the ingredients and creates a thick sticky texture.
• Cooking oil: as this is a deep frying recipe, you will need a good quailty high smoke point oils like sunflower, peanut, avocado, vegetable oil, etc.

How To Make Fried Wontons

Prepare the Fillings

1. First, finely chop the spring onions and gather the rest of the ingredients.
2. In a large mixing bowl, add chicken mince, grated ginger, garlic, and spring onions. Season with soy sauce, sesame oil, salt, sugar, white pepper, and cornstarch.
3. Stir well to combine all ingredients evenly, until the fillings become a sticky paste.

How To Wrap Wonton

4. To wrap the wontons, place one wonton wrapper in your palm, add 1-2 teaspoon of fillings in the middle of the wrapper. Wet the edges of the wonton paper with water.
5. Fold the wonton into a triangle shape, press the edges to seal it.
6. Pull the corners of the triangle and wet one side and overlap the corners and press hard to seal it. ( Check out my step-by-step cooking video on how to make crispy wonton. )

How to Deep Fry Them

7. Pre-heat oil between 330-350°F, deep fry for 4-5 minutes or until the wontons are crispy golden brown.
8. Remove from oil and place them over a paper towel or cooling rack. Serve immediately with a choice of dipping sauce.

How To Make Chilli Dipping Sauce

To make the homemade soy-based chilli dipping sauce, combine light soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, and chilli oil. Mix everything well until sugar dissolved.

Instead of this sauce, you can also serve fried wontons with sweet and sour sauce, sweet chilli sauce, soy-base dipping sauce, chilli garlic sauce, Sriracha hot chilli sauce, etc. Dipping sauce enhance the flavour of fried wonton and brings extra savoury umami taste.

Frequently Asked Questions

Freezing Tips

• You can make the wontons ahead and store it for future use. To freeze them, place the folded wontons over the baking sheet ( parchment paper ) and make sure they are not sticking each other.
• Then place the tray in the freezer and freeze for 1-2 hours. Once the wontons are set and firm. Transfer them to the freezer-safe containers or bags.
• Properly sealed and stored wontons usually last in the freezer for up to 3 months. Do not need to defrost the frozen wontons. Fry them directly in the pre-heated oil and you might need to fry a few extra minutes to ensure the fillings are fully cooked.

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