Ingredients for Crab Rangoon

Series Summary

Crab rangoon are a Chinese food restaurant appetizer made up of deep fried dumplings filled with cream cheese, crab meat, or imitation crab, scallions, garlic and other spices. The mixture is wrapped in wonton wrappers formed into a triangle or flower shape and deep fried in vegetable oil. Though served almost primarily in Chinese food restaurants, crab rangoon was actually developed in America, and has become an essential appetizer for most Chinese food restuarants.

In this free video series, our expert will show you how you can make crab rangoon at home. You will learn all the steps for creating a unique shrimp and crab rangoon, inlcuding how to chop the vegetables, saute the shrimp and make the filling. You will also learn how to prepare the wonton wrappers, fill the crab rangoon and fry the crab rangoon. If you've always loved this favortie appetizer but don't want to spend the money on expensive restaurants, let our expert chef show you how to make this deep fried crab rangoon.

Video Transcript

"This is Chef Micheal Halbe with Expert Village and today we are going to be making crab and shrimp rangoons. Today we are going to be making some garlic chili sauce for our crab and shrimp rangoon. We are going to use some soy sauce, some garlic chili paste, some fresh green onions, some fresh ginger root. We are going to have some 31-35 shrimp, a couple of teaspoons of butter, some fresh minced garlic, some salt, some pepper, some can crab it is nice and fresh it is actually real crab instead of intimation crab. Some cream cheese, a little bit of lemon, a little bit of cilantro, a little bit of white wine and some wong tong wrappers and we are going to make a paste with some egg so we can seal it all together. "