Wonton Appetizers

The Recipe

Courtesy of: Hidden Valley and Sarah's college roommate, Vanessa Styx

2 c (1 lb) cooked crumbled sausage
1-1/2 c grated sharp cheddar cheese
1-1/2 c grated monterey jack cheese
1 c prepared Hidden Valley Ranch Original Ranch salad dressing mix
1 (2.25 oz) can sliced ripe olives
1/2 c chopped red pepper
1 pkg (16 oz) package fresh or frozen wonton wrappers
Cooking spray

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a miniature muffin pan with cooking spray. Insert wonton wrapper into the muffin pan and press to form small cups.

Bake for 5 minutes. Allow the baked wrappers to cool. Remove the cups from the muffin tin and place on a cookie sheet.

In a medium bowl, mix the sausage, cheddar cheese, monterey jack cheese, black olives, peppers, and ranch dressing. Fill the baked wonton wrapper cups with the sausage mixture.

Bake the filled wonton wrappers 5 to 10 minutes, until the sausage mixture is bubbly and slightly brown. Watch closely so the wonton wrappers do not burn.

Tips/Tweaks

Keeping it Healthy

Instead of using sausage, we always use ground chicken as the meat. The chicken works extremely well with the creaminess of the ranch dressing. We also use reduced-fat ranch dressing, the cheese adds enough fat to the appetizer.

As a personal preference, we tend to keep the olives out and use fresh red pepper. We really like the sweet and little crunch the fresh red pepper adds.

Review

This is not an appetizer we make often because it does need to be served warm and needs to be made in a few batches, but it is one of our favorites. We highly recommend serving this if you are hosting a gathering!