Quick Chinese recipes
Celebrate Chinese New Year with one of our speedy recipes. Packed with authentic flavours but made with readily available ingredients and all ready in fewer than 30 minutes.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Andrew Wong’s black bean sauce
Andrew Wong shares his recipe for Chinese black bean sauce. Serve as relish, folded into fried rice or loosen to use as a stir-fry sauce.
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Homemade dressings and sauces
Andrew Wong’s ginger and spring onion relish
Andrew Wong shares his recipe for ginger and spring onion relish. This scallion sauce is a staple of Cantonese cooking. Try it with chicken.
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Peppers
Chinese chicken, prawn and lap cheong stuffed peppers
These Chinese stuffed peppers are packed with a bouncy, fragrant filling of chicken, prawns and nuggets of lap cheong (Cantonese sausage).
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Fried rice
Lap cheong (Chinese sausage) fried rice
Fried rice is the ultimate use-it-up dish. Frying lap cheong sausage before the rice goes in means every grain is coated in its aromatic oils.
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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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Chicken thighs
Three cup chicken (san bei ji)
Named so because it traditionally contains equal parts shaoxing wine, soy sauce and sesame oil, this is a super-speedy Chinese chicken dish.
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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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Celebrity chef recipes
Jeremy Pang’s naxi fried fish
Jeremy Pang's crispy fried fish with peanuts, chillies and ginger is inspired by traditional fish dishes cooked by the Naxi people in China.
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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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Fakeaways
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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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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Vegan dinners
Black bean tofu and baby pak choi
Ching-He Huang's healthy vegan recipe with black bean tofu and baby pak choi is a winner for vegan Chinese New Year celebrations.
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Healthy soups
Hot and sour soup
Ching-He Huang's comforting yet healthy vegan hot and sour soup recipe is a wonderful way to kick off Chinese New Year celebrations.
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