Fried Chicken Wontons
- 8 oz cream cheese softened (or room temp)
- 1 large cooked chicken breast chopped in small dice
- 1/2 red onion chopped finely
- 1 packages wonton wrappers
- 5 green onions chopped
- 1 bottle La Choy Teriyaki marinade sauce
- 1 vegetable oil for frying
- Cook your chicken breast in frying pan on low heat with about 1/4 cup of water.
- Cover.
- Turn chicken a couple times during cooking until cooked through.
- Take chicken from pan and place on your cutting board to cool.
- When chicken is cooled go ahead and chop into a small dice.
- Take a 1/2 of a red onion and chop finely
- In a medium bowl add your softened cream cheese, diced chicken and onion.
- Stir until mixed through.
- On a medium cutting board lay out about 8-10 wonton wrappers.
- Pointed edge up.
- (like a diamond shape)
- Drop about a teaspoon of filling mixture in the center of the wonton.
- (Be sure to not over stuff wonton because it may burst open during cooking)
- Take a small bowl and fill it will about 1/4 cup of water.
- Dip your index finger into water.
- You then run your wet finger down all sides of the wonton.
- Slowly fold up wonton to look like a triangle.
- Gently press sides down making sure they are tightly sealed.
- Repeat this until all cream cheese filling is gone.
- Preheat your deep fryer.
- Or you could use a large deep heavy pan filling it about half way with vegetable or canola oil.
- Heat oil to about 350-375degrees.
- With a fryer spoon slowly add 4 wontons at a time to fryer oil.
- Turn wontons frequently.
- Remove wontons from frying oil when they reach a rich golden brown.
- Lay wontons on a large plate lined with paper towel.
- When wontons are all cooked serve on a fresh plate with chopped green onion scallions and drizzle with La Choy Teriaki.
cream cheese, chicken, red onion, wonton wrappers, green onions, marinade sauce, vegetable oil
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/345388-fried-chicken-wontons (may not work)