Copy Cat Recipe - Panda Express Cream Cheese Wonton (2024)

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What is Panda Express cream cheese Rangoon made of? ›

What Makes the Panda Express Cream Cheese Rangoon the Best? These crispy wonton apps are stuffed with a mixture of cream cheese, scallions, and a dash of garlic powder. They make satisfying finger food for game day, or you can try dolling them up to make casual co*cktail appetizers.

While wonton filling can vary from pork to shrimp with seasonings like ginger, garlic, scallions, and soy sauce, crab rangoon always has cream cheese and crab filling.

Crab Rangoon, sometimes called crab puffs, crab rangoon puffs, cheese wontons, or cream cheese rangoons, are filled crisp dumpling appetizers served primarily in American Chinese restaurants.

Oddly enough, they don't use crab or imitation crab in their original recipe. Feel free to add some though, it's delicious!

PAGODA^® Cream Cheese Wontons are the perfect combination of real cream cheese wrapped in a crispy wrapper. Add them to your favorite meal, or dip them in our tempting sweet chili sauce for the perfect snack.

Wontons are a type of dumplings, which by now you know I LOVE – these are made with pork and shrimp. If you prefer chicken, try my Chicken and Cilantro Wontons (a copycat recipe for the Trader Joe's kind) or my Vegetable Dumplings – you won't even miss not having any meat!

Traditional Chinese wonton wrappers are made from wheat flour, eggs and water, and can be used to wrap around any number of fillings to be cooked in soups or fried. That's obviously a no-go for anyone eating gluten free.

The name "Crab Rangoon" is believed to be a nod to the traditional Burmese dish, "ohn-no khauk swe" or "ohn-no kaukswe," which is a soup made with noodles and chicken. "Rangoon" was the former name of Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar (formerly Burma), where the dish is said to have originated.

It consists of cream cheese, sometimes sweetened, plus, usually, very small bits of imitation crab, stuffed into a wonton wrapper and deep-fried, served with a syrupy, neon sweet-and-sour dipping sauce. It is, essentially, deep-fried cheesecake with fake crab in it—as sweet as any dessert, but served as an appetizer.

What are Panda Express rangoons? ›

Cream Cheese Rangoon

Wonton wrappers filled with cream cheese and served with sweet and sour sauce.

Cheddar Cheese (Made From Cows Milk). Emulsifiers (E331. E339). Butter.

Panda Express Appetizers Cream Cheese Rangoon (3 pieces) contains 24g total carbs, 22g net carbs, 8g fat, 5g protein, and 190 calories.

Panda Express cream cheese rangoon (3 piece) contains 24g total carbs, 23g net carbs, 8g fat, 5.3g protein, and 190 calories.

Panda Cheddar Cheese blocks come in a 450 gm block size. Ingredients: Cheddar cheese, hard cheese, natural & vegetable fats, Emulsifying salts, Skimmed powder milk.

Cream Cheese Rangoon

Wonton wrappers filled with cream cheese and served with sweet and sour sauce.

Of all the wonders of the modern American Chinese menu, crab rangoon is one of the strangest. It consists of cream cheese, sometimes sweetened, plus, usually, very small bits of imitation crab, stuffed into a wonton wrapper and deep-fried, served with a syrupy, neon sweet-and-sour dipping sauce.

Panda uses ingredients that contain all the major FDA allergens (peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, fish, shellfish, milk, soy and wheat). Panda prepares its entrees fresh with shared cooking equipment and therefore allergens could be present in any entree. Panda Express does not have any vegetarian or gluten free dishes.