Bacon Rangoon Ingredients
- 16 oz. lite cream cheese
- 2 tbsp chopped red onion or shallots
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 4 chopped green onions
- 10 strips bacon (Get Gourmet Bacon Delivered to Your Door!)
- 1 package wonton wrappers
- 3 cups vegetable oil
- optional: 16 oz. fresh or canned crab meat, drained & flaked
Bacon Rangoon Preparation
Cook the bacon until just crispy in a frying pan or by microwaving between sheets of paper towels for 4 – 5 minutes. After the bacon cools slightly, put it in a blender or food processor and blend into small pieces.
Dice green onions and red onions or shallots.
In a medium sized bowl, warm the cream cheese in the microwave for 30 seconds to soften. Add the green onions, red onions or shallots, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, pepper and bacon bits. If you opted to use crab add it at this time too. Mix thoroughly.
Fill a small bowl with a bit of water. On a flat dry surface, set out a layer of wonton wrappers. Put about 1.5 teaspoons of the cream cheese mixture in the center of each wonton wrapper. With your finger, wet two sides of the first wonton wrapper, fold the wrapper in half to make a triangle and seal the dry edges to the wet ones. Then fold all three corners up and pinch at the top, sealing with a bit of water. Repeat this process until you’ve used all of the cream cheese mixture.
If you have a Fry Daddy or other fryer, fry the wontons according to the directions supplied with your fryer. If you don’t, heat 3 cups of vegetable oil in a deep frying pan and fry batches of the wontons until golden brown. After fried, let the wontons rest on paper towels to soak up extra oil. Serve warm.
You can create an easy dipping sauce with 2 parts soy sauce and 1 part sesame oil if you’d like. Add Sriracha or chili oil for a spicier dipping sauce.
Makes: 30 pieces
Serving Size: 3 pieces
Approximate Nutritional Information Per Serving (does not include dipping sauce or crab)
- Calories: 182
- Fat Grams: 13
- Carbohydrate Grams: 7
- Protein Grams: 7
- Fiber Grams: 0
- Weight Watchers Points: 5