Easy Recipe for Making Ground Beef Wontons at Home (2024)

FAQs

What kind of meat is used in wontons? ›

Wontons are basically fried dumplings that are filled with a mix of vegetables and meat, typically ground beef or pork. Wontons wrappers are typically thinner and made with wheat flour, whereas dumplings can be made from potato or wheat flour. Both can be boiled, steamed, or fried.

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.

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.

Rangoon is actually a Burmese city. 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.

When comparing Chinese dumplings vs wontons, some key differences are: Wrappers: Wonton wrappers are thinner, are usually square, and may contain egg. Dumpling wrappers are thicker, are usually round, and don't require egg. Filling: Dumplings can be filled or unfilled.

Do You Cook Wonton Filling First? No, you will not want to cook your homemade pork wonton filling first. Since there is a small amount of meat filling in this wonton recipe, they cook very quickly.

The most common filling is ground pork or chicken and shrimp with a small amount of flour added as a binder. The mixture is seasoned with salt, spices, and often garlic or finely chopped green onion. Factory-made, frozen varieties are sold in supermarkets.

For dumplings made with wheat flour, all purpose or plain flour will suffice. If your recipe calls for leavening, you'll need to add baking powder and salt. Alternatively, you can use self-rising flour which has the leavening included. For a lot of dumplings, plain flour is all that is required with no baking powder.

Use tortillas if you can't find mini wonton wrappers.

You can cut a flour tortilla into smaller squares or smaller circles to make these chicken cups with them instead.

There are decent wonton skins at supermarkets. Dynasty, made by JFC (an Asian company), is actually quite good. Some grocers carry Azumaya but I've consistently found that they are dry, thick, and difficult to work with. Nasoya brand is thinner and more supple than Azumaya.

How do you stick wontons together? ›

For this simple fold, all you have to do is fold the filled wrapper in half to form a triangle, then bring the bottom corners together to finish the fold. A little water acts as the “glue” to keep the wontons sealed tight so they don't fall apart as they cook.

Wontons are a type of dumplings, which by now you know I LOVE – these are made with pork and shrimp.

If you've never had wontons, they're basically juicy, chewy balls of minced meat folded inside thin sheet of doughs. Wontons are a quintessential Chinese dish with a ton of variations, both in folding techniques and fillings, throughout the different regions of China.

Ground pork and shrimp are typical fillings, although as with all Chinese dumplings, traditional and nontraditional variations abound depending on the region. Boiled wontons are popular and are served in a rich broth or soup. Japanese ground beef wontons are fried.

Fillings. Common dumpling meat fillings include chicken, pork, beef, shrimp, and fish which are usually mixed with chopped vegetables. Popular vegetable fillings include napa cabbage, scallion (spring onions), celery, leek, spinach, mushroom, carrot, garlic chives, and edible black fungus.