Fried wonton / Wantan frire

Wontons are a classic chinese dumpling, most commonly served as boiled dumplings. However, deep fry them and you’ve got yourself a great little snack!

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5 from 5 votes

fried wonton / wantan frire

Servings 40 wontons

Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 45 minutes mins

Ingredients

• 250 g chicken or pork minced
• 40 wonton wrappers
• 1 clove garlic chopped
• 2 g ginger chopped
• 1 sprig spring onion chopped
• 1 tsp fish sauce
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp black ground pepper
• oil for frying

Instructions

Dumpling mix

• In a large bowl, combine the minced, garlic, ginger, spring onion, fish sauce, salt and pepper. Mix all ingredients until well combined.

Fold the wontons — check out our video for more details.

• Place one wrapper flat on your palm.
• Put ½ tsp of the dumpling mixture in a corner of the wrapper.
• Starting with the corner that has the dumpling mix, pull the corner of the wrapper over the mixture and roll halfway. You should be left with a triangle shape with the mixture sitting in the middle of the flat base of the triangle.
• Use some water to wet the corner on one side of the dumpling mix.
• Grab the corner on the other side, roll it behind the mixture and join it on top of the wet corner.

Deep frying the wontons

• In a pot, heat up some oil to 180C/360F.
• Carefully drop the wontons one by one and fry for 4–5mins or until golden brown.
• Take out from the oil and let them cool for a couple minutes before serving.

Video

tips

Goes perfectly with our garlic mint dipping sauce!
Click here for the recipe!

Course: Entrée, Snack

Cuisine: Asian, Chinese, Mauritian

Keyword: Chicken, Pork