Chinese New Year recipes
Discover all the starters, mains and side recipes you need for the ultimate Chinese New Year feast. From spring rolls to char siu pork, China is home to a vast variety of incredible dishes and cuisines – so dig in!
We’ve got a range of Chinese-style favourites beloved in the UK, including spicy prawn toasts, vegetable spring rolls, hot and sour soup, crispy duck pancakes and Chinese-style spare ribs.
Fish is essential to serve on Chinese New Year for luck and Amy Poon’s home-style Chinese steamed sea bass is flavoured with ginger, spring onions, sesame oil and a sprinkling of other special ingredients for a dish worthy of the occasion.
Looking to broaden horizons with alternative picks for your feast? Try Ching-He Huang’s sweet and smoky red-cooked cod or finish with caramelised apples with sesame. And if you’d like the choosing done for you, where better to look than legendary chef Ken Hom’s Chinese New Year menu.
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Tofu
Air fryer salt and pepper tofu
Recreate a classic takeaway dish at home. Cooking salt and pepper tofu in an air fryer gives a crisp coating without using lots of oil.
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Best-ever side dishes
Steamed aubergine in a peanut and chilli dressing
Steaming delivers silky soft aubergine batons, dressed in a Chinese-inspired combo of crispy chilli oil, vinegar and peanut butter.
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Fakeaways
Mushroom jiaozi dumplings
Jiaozi are a versatile Chinese dumpling, served steamed, boiled or fried These vegan jiaozi are packed with three kinds of mushroom.
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Quick chicken
Chinese chicken with shiitake and wood ear mushrooms
This recipe proves why wood ear mushrooms are so good: beautifully plump and flavourful, they soak up all the wonderful marinade.
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Quick Chinese
Stir-fried potato slivers with wind-dried bacon
These stir-fried potato slivers have bite and are dressed with sesame oil, white pepper and Chinese wind-dried bacon for a flavour punch.
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Home-style Chinese steamed sea bass
If you like classic whole steamed fish with spring onion and ginger, try Amy Poon's home-style sea bass – ideal for Chinese New Year feasts.
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Chinese New Year
Lion’s head meatballs
Amy Poon's recipe for these large pork meatballs served with Chinese cabbage is a great celebration dish – perfect for Chinese New Year.
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San choy bau (Chinese pork lettuce wraps)
Crispy, cold lettuce leaves embrace piping hot pork with bold Chinese seasonings in this lettuce wraps recipe from chef Lara Lee.
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30-minute meals
Sichuan-style asparagus with pork mince
Asparagus in stir-fried with ginger, garlic, pork mince and sichuan peppercorns in this easy and delicious Sichuan pork dish.
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Fakeaways
Steamed lap cheong with five treasure fried rice
Lap cheong, Chinese sausages, are the jewel in these steaming bowls of five-treasure fried rice, packed with prawns, egg and vegetables.
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Jeremy Pang’s General Tso’s chicken
Learn how to make General Tso's chicken with Jeremy Pang. The wok-fried dish is the perfect balance of sweet, sour, spicy, savoury and salty.
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Recipes from restaurants
MiMi Mei Fair’s ‘Hokkien’ noodles
Peter Ho of London restaurant Mimi Mei Fair has created a next-level Hokkien noodle dish, which is great for Chinese New Year.
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Friday night dinners
Giant prawn toast
Giant prawn toast is a great sharing dish for Friday nights. Our mega prawn toast with dipping sauce is a fun riff on a takeaway favourite.
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Chicken thighs
Wun’s kung pao chicken
Discover how to make the perfect kung pao chicken with this step-by-step recipe from Wun's Tea Room in London.
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Chinese New Year
Crispy pork potsticker dumplings
Rumour has it potstickers came about when a chef let his dumplings boil dry, stick to the pan and crisp up. These beauties won’t stick around.
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Healthy salads
Hunan-style crispy mushroom noodle salad
Ching-He Huang's vegan Chinese salad combines panko-fried shimeji mushrooms, rice noodles and loads of veg for a tasty, healthy meal.
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