Thin & Chewy Homemade Wonton Wrappers (Using All-Purpose Flour)

If you love paper-thin chewy wontons, potstickers, or even those delicious crispy fried wonton strips in your favorite egg drop soup, you'll want to make this homemade wonton wrapper recipe. Not only is this recipe easy, but it's made using just flour, egg, salt, and water.

Seriously, when you see just how easy it is to make homemade wonton wrappers, you'll never again be disappointed when your local grocery store runs out (or just doesn't carry them). With just a few easy steps, you'll be filling these chewy, tender wrappers with anything you want.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I have two wonton wrapper recipes here on the site: the one in this post is made with all-purpose flour, and is actually my second favorite of the two:) I prefer my bread flour wonton wrapper recipe which is sturdier and easier to work with, but they both work great. I know not everyone keeps bread flour in their pantry, so I wanted to cover all the bases and provide both recipes!🤗

Jump to:

• What are Chinese Wontons?
• Why You'll Love This Homemade Wonton Wrapper Recipe
• Dumplings vs. Wontons -W hat's the Difference
• How are Wontons different from Dumplings?
• Homemade Chinese Wonton Wrapper Ingredients
• How to Make Homemade Wonton Wrappers from Scratch Step-by-Step
• How To Fill and Seal Homemade Wonton Wrappers
• Homemade Wonton Wrappers in Action (with Photos)
• Recipes to Use Homemade Wonton Wrappers Plus More Tasty Dim Sum Dishes
• 📖 Recipe
•  

They're so quick and convenient to use when you're in the mood for homemade Chinese food. I love these premade wrappers, but like most of you, I've been in a situation where the grocery store was out of stock or didn't sell them at all.

Which is a bummer when you're really craving Chinese food and have no good takeout options. Making homemade wonton wrappers is not only necessary sometimes, but they also taste really good. 

Why You'll Love This Homemade Wonton Wrapper Recipe

• Makes deliciously tender and silky wontons 
• You can make them as thin or as thick as you like
• The egg in the dough adds richness and flavor
• No special flour needed (this recipe uses regular all-purpose flour)
• Use them to make potstickers, beggar's purses, fried or boiled wontons, or as wonton chips for Sichuan chili crisp cream cheese dip
• Uses flour, egg, salt, and water (how easy is that?)
• Easy to make and roll out using a regular rolling pin (no pasta machine needed)

Dumplings vs. Wontons -W hat's the Difference

HINT: If you're looking for a wonton wrapper recipe that uses bread flour, you can find that over here. It's actually my favorite wonton wrapper recipe, but you can't go wrong using this all-purpose version when you don't have bread flour. 

The obvious difference is, of course, the shape. Dumplings are typically formed using round wrappers, and wontons using square wrappers. But there's a little more to it than that. Here are a few important factors that set these two styles of wrappers apart.

Our favorite wonton style is Sichuan spicy chili oil wontons which have a feather-light ginger pork filling and are covered in a spicy, delicious lightly sweet and sour sauce made with tahini (or peanut butter or both), toasted sesame seeds, a little crunchy sugar, soy sauce, black Chinese vinegar, homemade Sichuan chili oil, bird's eye chili, and Sichuan flower pepper oil.

That's a mouthful, I know, but it's authentic and incredibly delicious. If you love potstickers, you can use this dough or this traditional dumpling dough to make them.

HOMEMADE WONTON DOUGH

• all-purpose flour
• eggs
• kosher salt
• water 
• cornstarch (for rolling out and dusting)

Step 1. Make the wonton dough. In a large bowl (or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook attachment), add the flour and salt and stir to combine. Add the beaten egg and stir well to incorporate it (it'll be a shaggy mess at this point).

Slowly add the water 1 tablespoon at a time until the mixture just comes together and you can form it into a ball.

Step 2. Lightly knead the dough & rest it. If kneading the dough by hand, remove the stiff dough round from the mixing bowl and knead it for about 2 minutes, place it back into the bowl, cover it with sustainable cling film, and allow it to rest at room temperature for 10 minutes (this helps the gluten relax and makes it easier to knead by hand).

If using a stand mixer with the dough hook attachment, you can skip letting it rest and begin kneading it right away.

Step 3. Fully knead the dough & rest it.  Knead the dough in the mixer using the dough hook attachment on speed 2 for 10 minutes (or by hand for about 12 minutes) until the dough is smooth and pliable.

Step 4. Roll out the wonton wrappers. Divide the dough into 4 equal pieces. Starting with one piece, on a lightly cornstarch-dusted workspace, roll the dough out into a rectangle about ¼ inch thick.

Dust it with cornstarch and fold it like a business letter. Cover it with sustainable cling film while you roll the remaining three pieces of dough, repeating the same steps for each.

Once all four dough pieces have been rolled, dusted with cornstarch, folded, and covered, allow them to rest for 30 minutes.

Step 5. Cut the wonton wrappers. Remove one piece of rested dough onto a lightly dusted workspace and unfold it. Sprinkle it with a little flour and roll it out to ⅛ inch thick (paper-thin), dusting with more flour as you need to keep it from sticking.

Using a pizza wheel cutter or a knife, cut the dough into 3-inch (8cm) squares. Repeat with the remaining dough. Save the scrap pieces to be used as noodles in soup, or fry them to make delicious crispy wontons, and Enjoy!

For homemade wontons, the goal is to get a good dough-to-filling ratio that allows you to easily seal the edges, pressing out any trapped air bubbles inside the formed triangle (without having the filling seep out).

At this point, you may choose to either fold and form the triangles into a traditional Chinese wonton shape or make flat triangular potstickers instead.

If you are making potstickers, you can usually get away with adding a little more filling, but remember, a little filling goes a long way.

Homemade Wonton Wrappers in Action (with Photos)

 Let's get started!

Print

📖 Recipe