Steps to Prepare Award-winning 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 and, more recently, Thai restaurants. Ground beef filled wontons are great as a snack or meal, and always a hit as party finger food. They're also a popular Japanese obon festival food.

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. You can have Crab or beef wontons using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Crab or beef wontons

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

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. I didn't think I really liked crab all that much.

Crab or beef wontons instructions

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 doubled the recipe for these wontons, and I had some crab meat left over. Wonton just like dumplings are extremely popular in China. Common Chinese wonton is made with ground pork. However, in my hometown Sichuan, beef wonton is usually served with a hot and spicy broth. Wontons may differ in sizes and fillings from one area to another with different localized names.