Easy Wonton Soup Recipe (With Frozen Wontons) - Beautiful Life and Home (2024)

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How do you use frozen wontons? ›

How to store our dumplings, wontons, and baos. Our dumplings, wontons, and baos arrive frozen and raw for maximum freshness. When you get them, put them promptly into your freezer. Do NOT thaw them before cooking; they go straight from the freezer into the pan or pot!

Making the broth with a combination of chicken backs, pork trotters, dry-cured ham, dried shrimp, and glutamate-rich seaweed results in an extra-savory and rich soup. Brining the shrimp that fill the wontons in a solution of salt and baking soda preserves their juiciness and makes them crisp.

A little water acts as the “glue” to keep the wontons sealed tight so they don't fall apart as they cook. Remember to buy square wrappers (round wrappers don't work with this folding technique) and press as much air out of the wontons as you can while sealing them.

Heat Oil: In a non-stick or well-seasoned skillet, heat a small amount of oil over medium-high heat. Add Wontons: Place the frozen wontons in the skillet, ensuring they're not overcrowded. Allow them to cook without moving them for a few minutes until the bottoms turn golden brown.

Air-frying frozen dumplings makes them super crispy and delicious, just like the deep-fried ones you'd get from a restaurant. So, if you prefer fried dumplings over steamed, this is an exceptional preparation method. Air-frying dumplings is also the easiest way to make them.

If you've been boiling the wontons for 6 minutes, you're on the right track! Fully cooked wontons will float to the top of the boiling water. If they have been floating for approximately 30-60 seconds, you can be sure they are fully cooked.

For Crispy Dumplings Use the Classic Steam-Fry

Essentially, you fry the frozen dumplings, then add water to the pan and cover them to steam through, then fry them again once the water evaporates. This double-frying creates an extra-crisp bottom crust.

The wontons are fully-cooked, easy to prepare, and easy to serve. They can be served in chicken or beef broth, heated up to make a bowl of warm and tasty wonton soup.

What is the crunchy stuff on wonton soup? ›

Fried Wonton Strips are wonton wrappers cut into strips and fried in oil to a crispy golden brown. So good! I love making these for my Egg Drop Soup.

For toppings, I like to add sliced scallions or cilantro. If you like spice, you can add some red chili oil or sambal oelek. This easy wonton soup is delicious on its own, or serve it with General Tso's chicken or chicken and broccoli stir fry for a full Chinese takeout meal at home.

If you add the dumplings too early and they cook much longer than 15 minutes (depending on the size of the dumpling), they will begin to break down.

Homemade dumplings can fall apart for a number of different reasons, or any combination of them. Often they burst during cooking because they have too much filling for the amount of dough. Some doughs are too dry, so the dumplings won't stay sealed. Others can be too wet and sticky and end up tearing.

If the filling is too wet, the wonton wrapper will soften and tear. Moreover, you should not overfill the wrapper with too much filling. Fill the center of the wrapper with about 1 tsp filling to prevent it from bursting because of overfilling.

Rather than rush the process, resist the urge to defrost them in the microwave. Even if you work in quick intervals, microwaving will usually lead to tough and brittle wrappers. Instead, remove them from the freezer well in advance, letting the wonton wrappers thaw evenly in the fridge for about 12 hours.