add some imitation crab to the mix and you have crab puffs….these are so good and if you flash fry them you can freeze them….would not recommend freezing them if you dont fry them first or they will stick together. I love your recipes.
Exactly what I was thinking! I used to get Crab Puffs from a restaurant years ago!
Kristina
I just have to ask…what’s the coconut oil in the picture for?
Budget Savvy Diva
It is the oil I used to cook the wontons in
toni
Oh, I love these,,, try Salmon Cream cheese with a little Dill. Or any fruit flavored cream cheese and you can add a chunk of fruit! Dip in Chocolate too! Sundried tomato with basil… So many yummy things! 🙂
Can these be baked instead of fried? I dont fry food maybe a sautee here and there, but these look and sound AWESOME and I love the idea about using fruit!! a MUST TRY!
Budget Savvy Diva
I love the idea – I am sure they can be baked
Heather Reid
That’s what I do. I ALWAYS bake mine. I give them a little spritz of cooking spray and pop them in a 350 F oven until brown. The cooking spray helps them crisp up nicely. My family LOVES cream cheese won tons and I love that I can bake them and save some of the calories so I can have a couple extra ;).
1 8oz pkg cream cheese/1 tsp garlic salt /1/2 tsp lemon juice…combine add crab meat and combine…and you have crab rangoon…Ive made them for years and we will have them tonight with Chicken LoMein…delish ~
Kelly
Thanks! I usually buy those prepackaged ones at the commissary, and they’re over $2.00 for a 6 pack! I think these will be way better!
Laura S.
Can these be made ahead of time and reheated? (Or room temp?)
Annie
Flash freeze on a cookie sheet. They wont stick together. After frozen, they can be bagged and frozen for later use. I have done this for years.
I have been craving Chinese for along while now. So I decided to make a full dinner of take-out fake-outs tonight. This just made the list. I found a recipe for homemade wonton wrappers too so I don’t have to go to the store for anything. I am going to try baking them instead of frying them. Thank you again for another great DIY recipe.
I just recently found this website, and want to say I love this recipe and also also enjoy the posts as well with twists on the original recipe because I enjoy having multiple uses out of on recipe.
Watson
You are very sweet – thank you for the feedback 🙂
I’m so making these!!! :O I LOVE their cream cheese wantons! I bet it would be cheaper to make them yourself then to buy them. I am addicted to these so I need to make them.
theresa
:O im drooling
trina
do you know how this recipe would turn out if I substituted the wonton wrapper for rice paper wrappers for a gluten free option?
What Makes the Panda Express Cream Cheese Rangoon the Best? These crispy wonton apps are stuffed with a mixture of cream cheese, scallions, and a dash of garlic powder. They make satisfying finger food for game day, or you can try dolling them up to make casual co*cktail appetizers.
Wontons filled with cream cheese and imitation crab are named after the city – crab rangoons, whereas wontons just filled with cream cheese are often referred to as wontons – but they are used interchangeably. Wontons when not referred to as “cream cheese wontons” refer to dumplings like in my Wonton Soup.
PAGODA® Cream Cheese Wontons are the perfect combination of real cream cheese wrapped in a crispy wrapper. Add them to your favorite meal, or dip them in our tempting sweet chili sauce for the perfect snack.
Wontons and crab Rangoon are, on the surface, similar dishes: They're both a form of dumpling (essentially, a dough pocket) stuffed with some kind of filling. However, crab Rangoon has a specific type of filling, while wontons have a little more wiggle room when it comes to what they're stuffed with.
Oddly enough, they don't use crab or imitation crab in their original recipe. Feel free to add some though, it's delicious! My local Panda Express offers 3 for $2.35. Buying the ingredients myself, I have enough to make 50 Rangoons for just shy of $6.
Dishes like orange chicken, fortune cookies, and the dish she requested I make, cream cheese wantons also known as “Crab Rangoon”. The dish I'll describe is quite simple: a mixture of cream cheese and sugar stuffed inside a wonton wrapper and deep-fried.
What are crab rangoons? It's a mixture of seasoned crab meat (in my case, imitation crab), cream cheese, garlic and green onions that's wrapped up in dumpling or wonton wrappers, then fried to a beautiful golden brown.
It consists of cream cheese, sometimes sweetened, plus, usually, very small bits of imitation crab, stuffed into a wonton wrapper and deep-fried, served with a syrupy, neon sweet-and-sour dipping sauce. It is, essentially, deep-fried cheesecake with fake crab in it—as sweet as any dessert, but served as an appetizer.
Wonton skins (also called wonton wrappers) are thin sheets of dough made from flour, egg and water. That's basically the same formula as Asian egg noodles, and not all that far off from Italian pasta. Except wonton skins are cut into round and square sheets.
Yes, they are very similar to each other. Both cream cheese rangoons and fried wontons use fried wonton wrappers stuffed with cream cheese. The difference is what they are stuffed with. When they have crab, they are called crab rangoons.
Traditional Chinese wonton wrappers are made from wheat flour, eggs and water, and can be used to wrap around any number of fillings to be cooked in soups or fried.
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).
Bake the puff pastry squares with cherries for 13 minutes or until golden brown. Use a fork to gently remove puff pastry wontons from the muffin pan to a serving plate. (they will come right out, the fork is to keep from burning your fingers). Allow the puff pastry wontons to cool for 10 minutes.
Wontons are a type of dumplings, which by now you know I LOVE – these are made with pork and shrimp. If you prefer chicken, try my Chicken and Cilantro Wontons (a copycat recipe for the Trader Joe's kind) or my Vegetable Dumplings – you won't even miss not having any meat!
It's a crispy, star-shaped appetizer that has a creamy filling made of cream cheese and chopped scallions. I decided to recreate these famous cream cheese rangoons from Panda Express. It's a tasty and bite-sized snack that you can easily serve to a big crowd.
Panda Cheddar Cheese blocks come in a 450 gm block size. Ingredients: Cheddar cheese, hard cheese, natural & vegetable fats, Emulsifying salts, Skimmed powder milk.
They're common to find in Chinese restaurants in America. Panda Express cream cheese rangoons are very popular but it only has cream cheese instead of crab too.
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