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!
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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
- First, finely chop the spring onions and gather the rest of the ingredients.
- 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.
- Stir well to combine all ingredients evenly, until the fillings become a sticky paste.
How To Wrap Wonton
- 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.
- Fold the wonton into a triangle shape, press the edges to seal it.
- Pull the corners of the triangle and wet one side and overlap the corners and press hard to seal it.
How to Deep Fry Them
- Pre-heat oil between 330-350°F, deep fry for 4-5 minutes or until the wontons are crispy golden brown.
- 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
High smoke point oils, such as peanut, vegetable, sunflower, avocado oil are best for frying wontons. These oils are neutral in taste and can hold the high heat that is required for deep frying.
Deep frying is the best and traditional way for frying wonton but if you want to use less oil, you can also fry them in a frying pan. Fill the frying pan with cooking oil at least one inch and fry with medium heat. Fry for 2-3 minutes or until crispy golden brown, then flip and fry the other side.
To keep fried wontons crispy, fry with small batches and do not overcrowd the pan to maintain the oil temperature. Once the wontons are fried, place them over the wire rack to drain off excess oil. Make sure not to stack the wontons to prevent moisture buildup and serve immediately after cooked.
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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📖 Recipe
Crispy Fried Wonton
Ingredients
- 200 g Minced chicken Ground chicken, pork, turkey, lamb, prawns/shrimp, etc. ( About 7oz )
- 3-4 Spring Onion Green onion, finely chopped
- 20-25 sheets Wonton wrapper/skin
- 1 tsp Grated garlic
- ½ tsp Grated ginger
- Oil for frying Vegetable/peanut/sunflower/canola
Seasonings
- 1 tsp Light soy sauce Or all-purpose soy sauce
- 1 tsp Sesame oil
- 1 tsp Sugar
- ¼ tsp White pepper Or black pepper
- ½ tsp Salt
- 2 tsp Corn starch/flour or potato starch
Chilli Sauce
- 1 tbsp Rice vinegar or Shao Xing cooking rice wine
- 1 tbsp Light soy sauce or all-purpose soy sauce
- 1 tbsp Chilli oil
- 1-2 tsp Sugar
Instructions
- First of all finely chop the spring onions.
- In a large mixing bowl, add chicken mince, chopped spring onions, grated ginger, garlic, and seasoning ingredients.
- Stir well to combine all ingredients until the fillings become sticky paste.
- To wrap the wontons, place wonton wrapper in your palm, add 1 teaspoon of fillings in the middle of the wrapper. Wet the edges of the wonton paper with water. Fold the wonton into triangle shape, press the edges to seal it. Pull the corners of triangle and wet one side and overlap the corners and press hard to seal it. ( Check out my step by step cooking video how to wrap wonton. )
- Pre-heat oil to about 350°F, deep fry the wontons until crispy golden brown.
- Drain oil and place into paper towel or cooling rack first.
- To make the chilli dipping sauce, mix all the dipping sauce ingredients in a bowl.
- Transfer the wontons to servings plate. Serve with chilli dipping sauce or your choice of chilli dipping sauce.
Liza says
could these be used in wonton soup as well?
Khin says
Hi Liza, you can definitely add these wontons to soup. Boil them in the hot boiling water for 3-4 minutes then add them to your noodles or soups.
Andy says
Turned out very well. Used msg instead of salt, and used a full pound of meat so I doubled the seasonings. Did 1 test wonton and then adjusted spices from there. Might try adding some kind of chili pepper or maybe chili seeds to give it some heat.
Khin says
Sounds delicious! Haven't tried with fresh chillies in the wonton fillings. Thanks for trying out and sharing feedback with us.
Alex van Herk says
The sesame oil, light soya and sugar, pepper and salt are nog in the list of ingredients for the minced chicken. They are are in the video though 😉
Khin says
Hi Alex, please find at the recipe card seasonings ingredients list. Thank you so much for sharing comment. Hope you enjoy this recipe.
Pooja Vidhani says
How to make wonton wrappers like urs
Khin says
Hi Pooja, I used ready-made wonton wrappers from the Asian grocery store's freezer section. I will share my recipe for how to make wonton wrappers at home too! Thank you so much.
Ketutsuaryana says
Simple n wow