These Cream Cheese Wontons are filled with cream cheese, chicken, Pepper Jack and a perfect blend of spices. These bite size crispy treats are a little more economical than crab rangoon and a cinch to make. Are you planning a party? We aslo love to serve these Sweet Bacon Wrapped Chicken Bites and Quick and Creamy Crab Stuffed Mushrooms.
Well the entertaining season is upon us and there are so many things to get done at one time. No worries!! With easy delicious recipes like this you can get it all done. As a matter of fact these Pepper Jack Chicken Cream Cheese Wontons are so simple your tween could help you with them. You can prepare the filling ahead of time and with a simple 30 second lesson your tween or teen would be an expert wonton stuffer. Then you can keep multitasking all the while congratulating them on hitting yet another accomplishment in their life.
You don’t even have to break out the deep fryer. These Pepper Jack Chicken Cream Cheese Wontons are petite enough that about one inch of oil in a heavy stockpot will suffice. You will need to devote your complete attention when frying them so they don’t burn because they fry up golden brown in less than a minute. You can serve them with my Asian Dipping Sauce or spicy mustard.
How do you make Cream Cheese Wontons with Chicken and Pepper Jack?
In a large food processor add the cream cheese, Pepper Jack, garlic powder, onion powder, green onions and cooked chicken. Pulse just a few times until it combines. Then place one heaping teaspoon in the center of each wonton and pull up the sides and pinch. Lightly moisten fingers with cold water and pinch again. Press down gently on a plate to get their bottoms flat so they will stand up properly. Keep the extra wontons skins covered with a lightly moistened paper towel while you work. Repeat until all of the wontons are full. Cover filled wontons with lightly moistened paper towels while you are working and while heating the oil.
Heat about one inch of vegetable oil to three hundred seventy five degrees in a dutch oven or heavy skillet. A cast iron skillet works as well. Working in small batches fry the wontons for about one minute or until golden brown. Use tongs to brown on both sides if they fall over. Drain on paper towels. In a small bowl mix soy sauce, water, mirin and sesame oil. Serve warm wontons with sauce.
Can Cream Cheese Wontons be made ahead of time?
For best result prep them and flash freeze them. Put them on parchment covered cookie sheets in a single layer not touching. Once they are frozen, you can safely put them into a freezer zip-lock bag and they will not stick together. Don’t forget to line the cookie sheet, or the they will stick to the metal pan. This can be a done from a day to a few weeks in advance. Drop them into the oil frozen.
What are wontons and where can I purchase them?
Wonton skins are small square sheets of dough made from flour egg and water. Egg roll skins and potstickers skins are made out of the same dough. However egg roll skins are larger and potsticker skins are almost the same size as wontons skins except they are round.
Both wontons skins and egg roll skins can be purchased at most grocery stores including some Walmarts. Potstickers skins are more difficult to find. For this recipe you are in search of wonton skins.
Put these easy Cream Cheese Wontons with Chicken and Pepper Jack on your to try list. They are perfect for movie night, game day, neighborhood parties and holidays. Don’t fret my friends entertaining can be done in a jiffy and you will be so glad that you got to see your friends and family!!
Other appetizer recipes you will love!
- Crab Rangoon Egg Rolls
- Quick Southern Pimento Cheese
- Mini Bacon Cheeseburger Bites
- Cajun Butter Steak Bites
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This post was originally published Dec 8, 2016 and was republished March 27, 2019 with new content and photos.
PrintPepper Jack Chicken Cream Cheese Wontons
These bite size crispy Pepper Jack Chicken Cream Cheese Wontons are a fabulous party appetizer and are so simple that even your tween can help.
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 5
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 36 wontons 1x
- Category: appetizer
- Method: stove top
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese (1 box)
- 1 1/2 cups Pepper Jack cheese grated
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 4 green onions sliced
- 1 cup finely diced COOKED chicken
- 1 package wonton wrappers (12 ounce)
- Vegetable oil
- 3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon water
- 2 tablespoons mirin
- 1/8 teaspoon sesame oil
Instructions
- In large food processor add cream cheese, Pepper Jack, garlic powder, onion powder, green onions and cooked chicken. Pulse just a few times; just enough to combine.
- Place heaping teaspoon in the center of each wonton and pull up sides and pinch. Lightly moisten fingers with cold water and pinch again. Press down gently on plate to get their bottoms flat (so they will stand up). Keep extra wontons skins covered with lightly moistened paper towel while you work. Repeat until all wontons are full. Cover filled wontons with lightly moistened paper towel while you are working and heating the oil.
- Heat about 1 inch of vegetable oil to 350 – 375 degrees in a heavy skillet. Working in small batches fry until golden brown; less than 1 minute. Use tongs to brown on both sides if they fall over. Drain on paper towels.
- In small bowl mix soy sauce, water, mirin and sesame oil. Serve warm wontons with sauce.
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We belong to an RV group and I know these will disappear on appetizer night.
Awesome. Thanks so much! Enjoy!!
Do you think these would work well in the air fryer?
You know I am not very familiar with an air fryer so I am not sure. However I do hear from my readers that a lot of my fried recipes work great in air fryers especially those containing cream cheese. Please let me know if you try and how it works out and I will get the word out.
I can say they do not work well in the airfryer. I have never had any luck anyway. They spew open and the cheese gets everywhere except for in the wonton. I adjusted time and heat pinching techniques and unless I’m missing something major it never ended up salvageable.
Thanks for the heads up Eri! Always good to know these kinds of things.
Do you have a recipe for the sauce?
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It is right there in the recipe. The last four ingredients…DELICIOUS!
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e made these with just the cream cheese and pineapple n them. M husband loves pineapple so he really went for them. I have to try these now!!
That does sound delicious! I love pineapple too so this is a must try!
What is marin? I have never heard of it.
Mirin is sweetened sake sometimes it is available in the Asian section of your grocery store. You can substitute 3 parts sherry to one part sugar.
I’m thinking these would be AMAZING with chopped cooked shrimp & some crumbled bacon in place of the chicken! Kind of like cheese & jalapeno stuffed shrimp brochettes.
Yes that would be delicious. Have fun with it!!
Very nice page?
Thanks so much!!
Can you make without a food processor
Yes you can. Just cut your cooked chicken real fine and beat with mixer or well with spoon.
I am not much on frying foods. Do you know if they would work by cooking them in the oven?
I have never tried with these but have done with other similar recipes. I would spray with a little nonstick vegetable cooking spray and bake at 400 for maybe 7 minutes. Do one as a test run.
Thanks for sharing! How far ahead of time can I make them?
You can make them and flash freeze them. Put them on parchment covered cookie sheets in a single layer not touching. Once they are frozen, you can safely put them into a freezer zip-lock bag and they will not stick together. Don’t forget to line the cookie sheet, or the they will stick to the metal pan. This can be a done from a day to a few weeks in advance. Drop into the oil frozen.
How much longer do they take to cook if dropped in frozen from making them ahead?
Believe it or not it is about the same amount of time…might be 20 seconds longer.
Do you think the canned chicken breast would work well?
Some are better than others. Costco sells a canned chicken breast that tastes pretty darn good and is real chicken breast.
Where do you find wonton wrappers? I can not find them anywhere.
All my local grocery stores have them. I have also purchased them at Walmart. They will be in the refrigerated produce section.
At my Walmart they are by the lettuce
How many does this make?
Thanks for this recipe, sounds delicious.
You are most welcome! About 36 wontons.
These were such a fun twist on a classic appetizer and I am obsessed! I loved that there was zero crab involved in these tasty morsels!
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SO good — thanks for finally helping me find a substitute for crab rangoon!
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These look so delicious! I’m sure it hard not to eat them all!
A truly original and tasty way to present the cream cheese. Yummy!
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These look delicious, and seem like a perfect recipe for a buffet, for lunch or for picnics! Thanks for sharing this recipe with us 😉
These wontons look ever so delicious! What a great idea for an appetizer at a party!
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I love wontan so much and we usually eat them in the soup and not deep fried. But I love to try out once to have a change. Your recipe is brilliant as it has included cheese.
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These look delicious, thanks for the recipe, it would be good to try something new for a change
Awesome! I hope that you like them!
This looks so yummy. I am definitely going to be making this one asap
That sounds so delicious!! I love cream cheese wontons yummmm! Thank you for the recipe!
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Oh yum! These sounds REALLY delicious. I’ll have to try them.
I’ve never tried a wonton but i hear so many great things about them. Your pictures looks so great!
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These sound like little bites of wonderful! I have only had wontons with crab; I bet the chicken with the cream cheese is delicious!
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My kids would absolutely love these. This would disappear in no time at our house! This is my kind of weekend treat.
Wow, I have never tried this recipe looks really delicious and easy. I will try to make this for my kids, thanks for sharing!
My pleasure! I hope you enjoy them!!
Is it a good sign that I’m drooling right now?! I love crispy wontons but have never had it with cream cheese. A really cool recipe idea.
These wontons looks fabulous. Nice reading on how to prepare them so easily with little effort.
Wonderful recipe to cook creamy wontons. Great for weekend treat or could be on any special occasion.
We love cheese filled wontons. They are so good. Ive been wanting to make these for so long. Yummy
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Oh we live wontons and all Asian food! This is perfect for the whole family, thanks!
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Great imaginative appetizer . Can’t wait to try your recipe ?
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Thanks so much Beverly!
Also another one of my favorites for this is rotessarie chicken, cream cheese and buffalo sauce. I put them in air fryer. Or use blue cheese crumbles instead of cream cheese.
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Fantastic ideas! Thanks for sharing them!
Yummy! I love cheese wontons!
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Cream cheese wontons are my favorite! I am dying over how good these were with the pepper jack cheese! Yum!
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I just wish I had a plate of those crispy wontons in front of me right now but they disappear quickly, don’t they?!
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These will be a big hit at Bunco!! Thanks
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These are so easy and yummy! This is one to keep in the recipe box!
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Do you happen to have nutritional information? They sound amazing.
The nutritional information on this recipe is out there.
I made the recipe tonight and it was a big hit …..everyone loved it thank you for sharing the recipe. ???
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Thanks so much Christina! So glad that you and your family liked them!
Any idea how long and at what temp for an air fryer?
Make sure they are well sealed with water when you fold them. I would first lightly brush with a little bit of vegetable or canola oil. In an air-fryer at 390 degrees, single layer with a little bit of space between them. 8 minutes, then turn and 4 more minutes. I would put the first 1 in by itself and run it as a test run just in case you need to increase or decrease those times by a minute.
Can these be baked instead of fried?
Yes you can but they are not going to get as crunchy. Do you have an air fryer? They get them crispier than the oven.
Will they stay crispy warming in a Nesco after fried for a couple of hours? I’d like to serve them at an event in which I would have to make them at least 4 hours ahead of time. Thanks!
I am not familiar with a Nesco enough to answer this! Maybe one of the readers will know the answer!