Making wonton wrappers at home is funny and easy. This version is Elaine’s handmade wonton wrapper recipe. Here is the video showing the detailed process.
I have received several requests about how to make wonton wrapper at home. So here is Elaine’s 100% handmade version with a video for a better description of the process.
In totally, homemade wonton wrappers are easy! However there are lots of the small tips to make the process no failure.
When I search the wonton wrappers, I got lots of dumpling wrappers (Elaine’s version) from Google. Previously, when I was not the operator in my family kitchen (my mom was), I was always wondering about the difference between dumplings, pot-stickers and wonton. Then my first impression was about the shape. Dumpling wrapper was around while wonton wrapper was square. However after making them at home for several times, I find out more difference. For example dumpling wrappers are much thicker while good wonton wrappers needs to be thinner. Most of the dumpling wrappers are egg free while most of the wonton wrappers call for eggs. You may find lots of recipes introducing how to making dumpling wrappers at home but little information about how to make wonton wrapper at home.
I guess the most difficult part lays in the thickness-how to make wonton wrappers paper-thin. The answer is enough kneading and enough rest time. The gluten can relax during the rest time and thus making the rolling out process easier.
Want to lean how to wrap wonton beautifully, check how to wrap wonton with picture tutorials and video.
Wonton Wrappers
Ingredients
- 4 cups of plain flour
- 3 middle size eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup water +1/4 cup more if needed
- Starch for dusting , cornstarch or wheat starch recommended
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix flour with salt and then add egg in. Stir well.
- Slowly add water and keep stirring the mixture. Then grasp with hand to form a ball. Adjust the amount of water based on the water absorbing capacity of your brand of flour. Stop adding water when there is no dry flour in your bowl.
- Place the dough in a large bowl, cover with plastic wrap and rest for 10 minutes.
- And then knead the dough again for around 8-15 minutes until smooth. Rest for around 30 minutes.
- Divide dough in half. Press on half down and roll out to a larger wrapper around 3mm in thickness. Fold up and cover with plastic wrap again for the next resting process.
- Finish the other half and reset both for another 30 minutes.
- Take one larger wrapper out and divide in half. Roll each of the halves into paper-thin wrapper or as thin as possible. Keep dusting. Then cut the large wrappers into small squares around 8cm.
- Repeat to finish all.
Video
Notes
- Dust the wrappers and then store in plastic bags; they can be store for couple of days in fridge.
- Vegan friendly solution: Skip eggs and add around around 2g dietary alkali powder in the water. If you do not have dietary alkali powder, you can use baked soda as a substitute (bake baking soda on a lined baking tray at 120 degree C). Do not touch it during the process to prevent skin irritation.
- You can surely use stand mixer or bread-maker to knead the dough and use a noodle machine to flatten the dough firstly.
Nutrition
Assembled!
Cooked! To make the filling and the red oil broth, check red oil wonton.
I’ve been looking for recipes of wonton wrappers for such a long time! I always buy these at the market and what I got were very yellow wrappers which I am not comfortable eating. Thank you so much for the tutorial. I will try this out very soon!
You are the most welcome! Thida! Homemade wonton wrappers are really much much better than store bought ones. So go ahead and try it.
Would a pasta machine work at all ? I have a hand injury that makes putting even pressure on a rolling pin difficult.
Hi there,
Yes, a pasta machine may work but you need to work the dough with pasta machine several times than make normal noodles. Just make sure that the wrappers are thin enough.
This is embarrassing but I’m going to share you this. I actually tried this out, and I made the fillings, The dough looked great before steaming. After steaming, the wonton got hard and cannot be eaten. my family said I put little water that seemed to make sense.
Hi: This is a simple recipe. I can’t believe how many people are amazed by this recipe. They must not know how to cook at all. The one thing I would suggest is that you should use more egg yolks than whole eggs. It’s makes for a richer dough. What recipe of yours would you consider to be the most secret of your recipes. I’m talking about something authentic I.e. the real Chinese version, not some Americanized version. I keep hearing about Chinese recipes that use Black Mushroom soy sauce. What would be the perfect dish for using that?
Thx Mark
Thanks for your suggestion Mark. I am devote to make authentic Chinese dishes. As for the black mushroom soy sauce, I guess you are referring to oyster sauce. It is an excellent sauce to make stir fries like this one https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/oyster-beef-with-chinese-broccoli/, salad etc.
Hi Elaine,
How is this different from that paper thin wraps that we see in Japanese and Vietnamese cuisines?
I have that with me and was wondering if I can use those for this recipe?
Would appreciate your help.
Thanks
Hi Sarah,
The wrappers are almost the same. So I guess you can use it in other dishes.
The Japanese and Vietnamese wraps you’re referring to are probably rice-papers, which have a different character to these wonton-skins, made of flour. You’d get much less bite from the rice-paper and they’re used to make different dishes, but both taste good.
Hi, thank you for your recipe.I have a question, could I use flour instead of starch?(I am intolerant to it).
Thank you
Sure, you can use flour for dusting.
Please clarify what do you mean, “plain flour”?
It is all purpose flour.
Thank you for this delightful and informative post and video!
You are welcome! I hope they are helpful.
Does This recipe work well if I plan on steaming my dumplings?
Hi,
I believe this https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/how-to-make-dumplings/ will help for steamed dumplings.
Hi—I was wondering if rice flour can be used?
Thank you
Rice flour cannot work for wonton wrappers.