Cream Cheese and Avocado Wontons Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is cream cheese wonton made of? ›

A Midwestern favorite: baked cream cheese wonton wrappers. The recipe ingredients are simple: 1 wonton wrapper plus 1 teaspoon cream cheese. You can add chives, crab, and other kinds of cheese — just decrease the amount of cream cheese accordingly.

These wontons can be made ahead and frozen for up to 1 month. You can also refrigerate them overnight and fry them the next day, but don't refrigerate them for longer than that.

Now wonton soup you get at a Chinese restaurant has the wontons, of course, but they are rather stiff. However, if you have leftovers, you can put them in the refrigerator, and they do not get mushy.

What is the difference between crab wonton and crab rangoon? Crab rangoon is a type of fried wonton, so they are really very similar. The difference is all in the filling. Traditional wontons are not ever filled with cream cheese (which is one of the main components in crab rangoon recipes).

Consuming fried or steamed wontons is not likely to impart any significant health benefits. The food does provide energy in the form of carbohydrates and fat. If meat, poultry, or seafood is added you'll also get a small benefit from protein which helps to build and maintain muscle mass.

To start, place your filling in the middle of your wrapper and then fold the wrapper closed in a triangle shape. Take care to remove the air as you close it and seal the edges with water. You could stop here, with a samosa style wonton, or fold the corner in horizontally to create an envelope shape. Seal with water.

I like to use either peanut oil or vegetable oil for deep frying. Both are neutral flavored and have a high smoke point. They can handle the amount of heat needed to make sure that your wonton strips fry up crispy without absorbing too much oil.

A little water acts as the “glue” to keep the wontons sealed tight so they don't fall apart as they cook. Remember to buy square wrappers (round wrappers don't work with this folding technique) and press as much air out of the wontons as you can while sealing them.

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The best way to keep fried foods crispy? Just place them on a cooling rack set over a baking sheet. If you're frying multiple batches, throw the whole setup into a low oven to keep everything warm as you keep frying and adding to the rack.

How to soften cream cheese? ›

To Make Ahead:

Bake the wonton cups and prepare the filling as directed, but cover them separately and refrigerate for 1 to 2 days. Assemble and bake the appetizers shortly before serving.

Cook the wontons in batches until they float to the surface, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon. Garnish with the chives and serve immediately with the chili dipping sauce.

Wontons pair deliciously with dipping sauces like soy sauce, ponzu, sweet chili sauce, or this simple wonton dipping sauce recipe. Other classic accompaniments are Chinese hot mustard, ginger scallion oil, or seasoned rice vinegar.

Wonton filling

There are many types of wonton fillings, but I'd say that pork and shrimp/prawns are the most common. Then there are all sorts of additions, including mushrooms, water chestnuts, chopped up Asian greens and even carrots.

Turns out Philadelphia Cream Cheese — the global brand of cream cheese made by Kraft — has been wrapped in tin foil for more than dozen decades. “We still use foil for our brick Philadelphia Cream Cheese,” said Lynne Galia, a Kraft spokeswoman told Marketplace.

Wontons are made by spreading a square wrapper (a dough skin made of flour, egg, water, and salt) flat in the palm of one's hand, placing a small amount of filling in the center and sealing the wonton into the desired shape by compressing the wrapper's edges together with the fingers.

Wonton meat filling is usually made of ground pork, sometimes combined with shrimp, chicken, or beef, seasoned with soy sauce, ginger, and other spices for flavor.