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crab rangoon

Don’t pay for an expensive appetizer at a restaurant when you can make these delicious Crab Rangoon delicacies in a snap. This simple but savory dish is usually served with soy sauce, plum sauce, duck sauce, sweet and sour sauce, or mustard for dipping.

Crab Rangoon


Course Appetizer
Cuisine Chinese
Servings 4

Ingredients

  • 1 pkg. Won Ton skins
  • 1 can crabmeat
  • 8-12 oz. cream cheese
  • Dash of MSG popular brand names for MSG are Ac’cent® and Ajinomoto®
  • Salt to taste
  • Cooking oil

Instructions

  1. Soften cream cheese and mix with crabmeat and seasonings.
  2. Drop a teaspoon full of mixture into center of a Won Ton skin. Slightly moisten the edges of the skin with water, fold skin in half to form a triangle. Press edges to seal.
  3. Pull bottom corner of triangle down and overlap slightly.
  4. Hold Won Ton skin together with a toothpick.
  5. Deep fry in preheated cooking oil until golden brown on both sides.
  6. Drain on a paper towel. When slightly cooled, remove toothpick.
  7. Keep warm in the oven on a cookie sheet until ready to serve with the sauce of your choice.

Recipe Notes

Recipe courtesy of Cooks.com

 

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