Panda Express Cream Cheese Rangoon made with a creamy center and crispy exterior, these are the perfect appetizer for your next Chinese takeout meal.
Cream Cheese Wontons Vs. Cream Cheese Rangoon
Panda Express Cream Cheese Rangoon may seem like a Chinese restaurant favorite, but it is actually not the crab (or Krab) wontons you’re used to. In this version, the flavor is mostly made up of cream cheese and crispy delicious wontons.
The hardest part of making cream cheese wontons really just lies in making the same shape. If you remember playing the fortune teller paper game as a kid, that’s what your hand looks like when making these. You have to fold into the center from the center of each side so you make little wings that you can seal together. While it isn’t necessary or add to the flavor, it is definitely cute and adds to the copycat nature of the recipe. You can also just fold the wonton in half into a triangle and fry them up!
Panda Express Copycats E-Cookbook
Also, I am shooting for the Panda Express E-Cookbook to be released in the next month, so you guys will just be able to download the whole set of recipes instead of having to collect all the links together.
Keeping track of all the Panda Express copycat recipes here on the blog?
- Panda Express Orange Chicken
- Panda Express Mushroom Chicken
- Panda Express Firecracker Chicken Breast
- Panda Express Chow Mein
- Panda Express Fried Rice
- Panda Express Black Pepper Chicken
- Panda Express Kung Pao Chicken
- Panda Express Beijing Beef
- Panda Express Mandarin Teriyaki Chicken
- Panda Express Sweet and Sour Sauce
- Panda Express String Bean Chicken Breast
- Panda Express Honey Walnut Shrimp
- Panda Express Cream Cheese Rangoon (you’re here!)
- Panda Express Beef and Broccoli
- Panda Express Sweetfire Chicken Breast
WONTON STRIPS ARE GREAT TOO!
You’re also going to want to serve the Panda Express Cream Cheese Wontons with some sweet and sour sauce. If you don’t want to have dairy, or you have friends coming over who may not tolerate/like cream cheese, you can also cut the wontons into strips and fry them up to dip into some sweet and sour sauce too.
Panda Express Cream Cheese Rangoon
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese , softened
- 2 tablespoons scallions , minced
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 24 wonton wrappers
- Oil
Instructions
- In a small bowl mix the cream cheese, scallions and garlic powder together.
- Preheat oil in a heavy bottomed pot, a couple inches high to 350 degrees.
- Put 1 tablespoon in a middle of a wonton wrapper and with your finger add water to the edges.
- Push the four centers of each side into the middle and press them together.
- Once the middle is connected from all four sides connect the little wings coming out from the middle
- Let sit while you make all the wontons and when you start to fry, begin with the wontons you made first, they'll be the driest.
- You aren't cooking anything to a specific temperature for food safety reasons, so just cook until golden brown
Gonna try and make it tonight along with your cream cheese wontons
Hi your recipe says to heat oil to 350 then put 1 tablespoon inside every wonton wrapper, I guess I’m just wondering what’s the purpose of that? Does it cook the inside of the wrap?
The mixture goes inside of the wrapper and gets fried. Enjoy!
Consider updating the recipe to clarify this (“Put 1 tablespoon of the cream cheese mixture in the middle…”). I too read it at first as putting a tablespoon of oil in the wonton wrapper, because the step immediately before this talks about oil, not the cream cheese mixture. I got more context from reading the next steps, but someone following the recipe without looking ahead might also think they need to drop a bunch of hot oil in their wonton!
Wow. If you’re going to have a jump to recipe button make sure it actually jumps to recipe. When I have to scroll and scroll just to find the recipe it is extremely frustrating.
I just tested it and it takes me right to the recipe. Sorry if you were having issues with it. Were you on desktop or mobile?
These were perfect. Spot on in flavor to those from Panda. Thanks!
A good start for a simple recipe! The filling is simple but it needs a kick. I would reccomend only 1 Teaspoon for the filling because even 1/2 Tablespoon was exploding out of them in the fryer no matter how careful I tried to be. Could also depend on the size of the wrappers! Will add less green onion and something with a bit of spice next time I make it!
Thanks for the suggestions.