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Creamy, crunchy wontons with a tangy, tart, and perfect lemon dipping sauce!
You may have noticed that I love Chinese food as I often share/talk about our family favorites like Orange Chicken, Asian Lemon Chicken, and Beef and Broccoli. I basically just try to recreate the things we like to order at Chinese restaurants. One thing we order every time we go out for Chinese is Fried Crab and Cream Cheese Wontons.
I love the creamy filling and the crunchy exterior, and I love the lemon dipping sauce!! I seriously can’t get enough of these babies, so I decided to do my wallet a favor and learn how to make them myself.
I am sharing the recipe for the wontons over on the Blendtec blog today. I used my fantastic Blendtec blender to make them, and it was so easy too! (You can find the recipe for the wontons here.)
But let’s talk about this dipping sauce for a minute!I truly think wontons are only half dressed if they don’t have a great sauce for dipping. And my personal favorite is a lemon sauce. But not just any lemon sauce…THIS lemon sauce.
It is the perfect lemony goodness, just the right tang, but enough sweet to keep me happy! And when it is paired with the creamy-crabby filling of the wontons it is blissful!
And want to know what else? Both the wontons and the sauce freeze really well. This means you can make up a batch, and freeze it, then pull them out whenever you want a great appetizer. I like to assemble the wontons, then freeze them on a cookie sheet, then stick them in a freezer bag. This way all I have to do is cook them, and defrost the sauce. Which can be done in a matter of minutes.
Company shows up last minute? No problem, pull these out and fry them up quick to tied everyone over until dinner is made!
Wontons & Lemon Dipping Sauce
Creamy, crunchy wontons with a tangy, tart, and perfect lemon dipping sauce!
5 from 1 vote
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Course: Sauce
Cuisine: American
Keyword: lemon dipping sauce, sauce, wontons
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 448kcal
Author: Rachael
Ingredients
Wontons
- Ingredientscrab and cream cheese wontons
- Wonton wrappers I just buy the premade ones, you can usually find them near the produce section of the grocery store
- Water
- Oil for frying
- Filling
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 3 green onions cut off the little hairy ends
- 1 lb imitation crab
- 1 tsp garlic salt
- 1½ tbsp milk
Lemon Dipping Sauce
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup lemon juice
- 1 tbs soy sauce
- 1/4 tsp ginger
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- zest of one lemon
- water for cooking
Instructions
Put the cream cheese, onions, garlic salt, milk, and half the crab in your blender and hit the “dips” button to blend.
Then add in the rest of the crab, and pulse it a few times so it blends and shreds the crab meat, but does not totally decimate it.
Note: This is a personal preference for texture. I like the inside to have a little bit of the meat in a “chunk” form, but if you do not care, you can just blend it all so it is a smooth, creamy texture.
Dip your finger into some water and wet the edges of your wonton wrapper. Place ½–1 tbsp of the filling in the center, and crimp the edges together.
Heat oil in a deep pan or fryer to about 375°F.
Fry at 375°F until the wonton wrapper is golden brown (2-3 minutes)
Lemon Dipping Sauce
Put eggs and sugar in blender and blend until eggs are fluffy and light yellow
Add in lemon juice and zest, seasonings, and soy sauce and blend for a few more seconds to incorporate
Fill a saucepan about 2-3 inches of water, and bring to a simmer
Pour lemon mixture into a heat safe bowl, and place over sauce pan
Cook, whisking intermittently, until the sauce thickens and is custard like (about 15 minutes)
Nutrition
Calories: 448kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 13g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 157mg | Sodium: 1687mg | Potassium: 163mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 31g | Vitamin A: 970IU | Vitamin C: 9.6mg | Calcium: 81mg | Iron: 0.8mg
Our recipe card software calculates these nutrition facts based on averages for the above ingredients, different brands, and quality of produce/meats may have different nutritional information, always calculate your own based on the specific products you use in order to achieve accurate macros for this recipe.
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This sauce is also really good over breaded chicken tenders, as it makes a nice Lemon Chicken Main dish!
Enjoy!
Want more amazing Asian themed foods?
Orange chicken is a family favorite over here:
Or how about this Asian Lemon Chicken?
Or maybe this Beef and Broccoli?
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Once again you have made me drool Rachael! I need to start wearing a bib when I come to your blog!
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Rachael says
Hahaha Bobbi! Thanks, you totally made my night. I feel the same way about your blog!
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This recipe looks perfect! I really love the dipping sauce!
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Rachael says
Thank you Sheena, me too!
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Mary Ellen says
Yum! these look amazing!
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Rachael says
Thank you Mary!
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Sarah Olson says
Seriously drooling. Crab and lemon dipping sauce? Yes please!
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Rachael says
Thanks Sara! We really love these, they are a frequent thing at our house!
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I love wontons! These look delicious, and I LOVE my Blendtec!
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Rachael says
Blendtec is the best!!
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Shelby says
We always order these also! I’ve made them before too but they are a time consuming work…but oh so yummy. Love the dipping sauce, that one is different to me!
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Rachael says
Shelby, these were easy. I made about 48 (the whole package of wonton wrappers, in about 10 minutes. Then I just used my fryer to fry them. And froze the ones I did not want to use at a later date!! Thank you!
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Jen says
Your wontons look amazing and what a fabulous lemon sauce! I can’t wait to try it with chicken too!
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Rachael says
Jen, I make a huge batch and keep it in a jar because then I can just make premade chicken tenders and smother them in it for a quick lunch. Haha. We love it!
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Cassie Korando says
That orange chicken looks delicious!
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shirley westhafer says
awesome dipping sauce
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5 from 1 vote (1 rating without comment)
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