Crispy Air Fryer Wontons with Pork Filling
This air-fried pork wontons recipe is a healthier version of the popular Asian appetizer or snack! It's simply wonton wrappers stuffed with ground pork seasoned with soy sauce, loaded with the flavors of garlic, cilantro root, and white peppercorn, and cooked until crispy in the air fryer with so little oil.
Servings: 40 pieces
Ingredients
- 300 grams ground pork
- 5 cloves garlic peeled
- 1 cilantro root
- ½ teaspoon white peppercorns
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 pinch sugar
- olive oil to coat
Instructions
- Add the cilantro root and continue to pound.
- Add the white peppercorns, pound until fine and set the mixture aside.
- In a bowl, mix the ground pork with the pounded herb mixture, soy sauce and sugar with your hand.
- Take a wonton wrapper and put about a tablespoon of pork in the middle and fold one edge of the square to another to form a triangle, using water to stick edges together. Fold the left edge of the triangle to the middle and the right edge to the middle as well, on top of the left and stick with water. Do the same until you have 40 pieces. View step-by-step images.
- Use a cooking brush to coat each piece with olive oil so that they don’t stick to the air fryer. Turn each piece over and brush the other side with olive oil too.
- Lay the coated pork-filled wontons in the air fryer flat. You can put in as many as you can.
- Set your air fryer to 356°F or 180°C and fry for 20 minutes.
- Take the wontons out of the air fryer and serve.
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Notes
- If you don’t have a set of mortar and pestle, you can use a food processor for steps 1-3.
- Make sure none of the wontons sit on top of each other in the air fryer.
- This recipe can be scaled up and prepared a day in advance.