Baked Crab Rangoon Appetizer Recipe

This baked Crab Rangoon appetizer recipe will get you loads of compliments because it is reeeeeally tasty and easy to make, too.  I took it to both family Christmas gatherings and I’m also making it for New Year’s Eve, only this time I’m making a bigger batch because they go fast.

By the way, if you love Asian food, here are more of my favorite Chinese/Asian recipes.  (Egg rolls, chicken lettuce wraps, sweet and sour chicken and more…)

Baked Crab Rangoon Appetizer Recipe

• 2 Crab legs, boiled (I tried to buy a can of crab meat, really I did, but just couldn’t bring myself to serve all those preservatives to my family!  If you can get past it, and I suppose it’s rare that you’ll make this, it is easier and cheaper.  So if you use the canned, use one can, drained and flaked.)
• 12 oz. cream cheese, softened (I use organic)
• 3 green onions, chopped small (More adds extra flavor, but some don’t like a stronger onion taste)
• 1/3 c. mayonnaise (Here’s my homemade mayo recipe that is very good!)
• Dash of sea salt
• 24 wonton wrappers (In the refrigerated section at the grocery store – the ingredient label on these wasn’t bad at all.)

Preheat oven to 350*.  Flake the crab meat out of each crab leg.  Mix the crab meat, cream cheese, onions, salt and mayo together well.

Butter 24 mini muffin cups and gently push a wonton wrapper down into each.  The edges will stand up out of the cups.  Fill evenly with crab meat mixture, not quite to the top of the cup.

Bake 12-15 minutes until filling is hot and wrappers are golden brown and crispy.  Watch them or they can get too brown quickly, like mine did in the picture above, but they’re good extra crispy anyway.  Serve warm.

These can easily be made ahead and then baked right before serving.

This recipe makes 24, but 48 wonton wrappers come in a package, so I suggest doubling it if you have 2 mini muffin pans or if you don’t mind baking them in two different batches.  Or you could easily use a regular muffin pan, but I don’t think it will be quite as good with less of the crispy wonton wrapper sticking up from the sides of the muffin cup.

What appetizers are you taking for New Years Eve?

• Here are more appetizer recipes.  (The picture at that post is so bad, does anyone have a better ‘appetizer’ picture that you’d be willing to share with me???)
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