Chinese New Year’s Recipes

These Easy Chinese New Year’s Recipes are all you need for making a Delicious Meal. Find the best Chinese New Year’s Recipes for sharing with family and friends. Browse our Chinese New Year’s Recipes collection to find the comfort foods and the classic dishes you love to make.

Coconut Lamb Curry

Cooking Time: 2h

If you are looking for a hearty and easy meal, add this Coconut Lamb Curry to your rotation ASAP. It’s an effortless one-pot meal loaded with bright flavors. Packed with tender lamb, hearty veggies and warming spices, it is doused in coconut milk and cooked low and slow until aromatic...

January 25, 2024

Char Siu (Chinese BBQ) Chicken

Cooking Time: 1h 35m

This easy Char Siu (Chinese BBQ) Chicken is a mouthwatering dish loaded with classic Asian flavors. It’s sticky-sweet and umami-packed. After a quick sit in a hoisin honey marinade, the chicken roasts at a high temperature on a wire rack to yield juicy and tender meat. Basting the chicken while...

January 23, 2024

Mapo Tofu

Cooking Time: 20m

Get a ton of flavor with this easy Mapo Tofu recipe! In this traditional Sichuan dish, tender tofu and ground beef or pork are cooked in a spicy chili oil sauce. A great meal to make when you need a speedy and delicious dinner. It’s also packed with protein and...

January 17, 2024

Chinese-Style Glazed Pork Belly

Cooking Time: 1h

Discover this amazing Chinese-Style Glazed Pork Belly recipe! It is sweet, salty, flavorful, and perfect. And if you enjoy Asian flavors and love anything with soy sauce, this recipe fills the bill perfectly. Plus, it’s easy to make. The recipe yields two hefty servings though you can easily multiply to...

January 31, 2022

Lion’s Head Meatball Shiitake Soup

Cooking Time: 45m

Lion’s Head Meatball Shiitake Soup is a traditional Chinese New Year dish. It’s called lion’s head because of the large size of the meatballs and the wavy Napa cabbage that resembles the lion’s mane. These homemade pork meatballs are juicy and melt-in-your-mouth delicious. The recipe yields 6 large meatballs or...

January 28, 2022

Chinese Tea Eggs

Cooking Time: 2h 25m

Serve these marbled Chinese Tea Eggs for breakfast during the Lunar New Year holiday and enjoy the most flavorful eggs you have ever tasted! Bonus, they are super easy and fun to make. To make this dish gluten-free, feel free to sub tamari for the soy sauce the recipe asks...

January 20, 2022

Top 10 Chinese New Year’s Recipes

1. Sichuan Boiled Fish Sichuan Boiled Fish is just what its name suggests – fish poached in a spicy, rich, and extra aromatic broth. You can make this recipe with just about any firm white fish you prefer. Think catfish, cod, sea bass, pangasius, or snapper. However, it’s crucial to...

January 20, 2022

Soft Fluffy Chinese Steamed Buns

Cooking Time: 1h 50m

Experience love at first bite with these Soft Fluffy Chinese Steamed Buns! The dough for these buns is soft but not too cakey, perfectly smooth, tender with a nice chew and a lightly sweetened taste. These Chinese mantou buns pair so well with almost anything. Long ago, like most traditional...

January 19, 2022

Chinese Pork and Shrimp Dumplings

Cooking Time: 1h 25m

These homemade Chinese Pork and Shrimp Dumplings are best for nights when you’re craving comforting food to warm you up. Savory dumplings with pork, shrimp, and napa cabbage made with homemade dumpling dough are just that much better than ordering takeout. These are fun to make and perfect for a...

January 18, 2022

White Fish Fillets with Ginger and Soy

Cooking Time: 15m

White Fish Fillets with Ginger and Soy recipe makes for a delicious and healthy weeknight dinner. And if you need a quick and inexpensive dish, this one fills the bill. This simple dish takes just 10 minutes of active work but gets tons of flavor from ginger, soy sauce, and...

January 17, 2022

Forbidden Black Rice

Cooking Time: 35m

Make this Forbidden Black Rice for a healthy and delicious side dish full of flavor and nutrients! They call it forbidden because it was reserved exclusively for the emperor in China thousands of years ago. Now it is available for everyone and represents good health and longevity. Cooking black rice...

January 14, 2022

Chinese Fa Gao

Cooking Time: 35m

This Chinese Fa Gao, aka Fortune Cake or Prosperity Cake, is a delicious traditional Chinese steamed cake. Fa is a Chinese word for “leavened”, and gao means “cake”. However, fa also sounds like “prosperity” or “wealth” – hence the name Prosperity Cake. This sweet cake is usually served during Chinese...

January 13, 2022

Sichuan Boiled Fish

Sichuan Boiled Fish is just what its name suggests – fish poached in a spicy, rich, and extra aromatic broth. You can make this recipe with just about any firm white fish you prefer. Think catfish, cod, sea bass, pangasius, or snapper. However, it’s crucial to use the freshest fish...

January 11, 2022

Shanghainese Lion’s Head Meatballs

Cooking Time: 45m

Shanghainese Lion’s Head Meatballs are a traditional Chinese New Year dish. These homemade pork meatballs are baked in the oven and then coated with a flavorful sauce. Think juicy, saucy, sweet, and packed with Asian seasonings. The recipe yields 6 large meatballs, but it’s easy to scale up and double...

December 23, 2021

Perfect Peanut Noodles

Cooking Time: 12m

Noodles dressed with peanut butter are a Chinese-American staple that is easy to make at home with this Perfect Peanut Noodles recipe. It is a simple yet delicious dish to prepare in just 20 minutes. Apart from the noodles, there’s no cooking involved. Just mix the sauce ingredients together and...

December 23, 2021

Bok Choy Soup

Cooking Time: 29m

This Bok Choy Soup is scrumptious and flavorful and doesn’t take much time to put together. Besides, this simple recipe proves that leafy greens really can be delicious. Inspired by the flavors of Asian cuisine, this noodle soup is subtly spiced with ginger, garlic, and star anise. And what I...

July 15, 2021

Long-Life Chinese Noodles with Beef & Broccoli

Cooking Time: 10m

This recipe for Long-Life Chinese Noodles with Beef & Broccoli is a quick, easy and healthy dinner to prepare. I love the combination of beef and broccoli in this dish and the best thing about it is how quick and easy it is to assemble and cook. It is much...

March 30, 2021

Chinese Hot Pot of Beef and Vegetables

Cooking Time: 2h

This Chinese Hot Pot of Beef and Vegetables is a nourishing, delicious Chinese stew that will brighten up the darkest days of winter. It is full of delicious spices like ginger, cinnamon, and chili to heat you up inside. If you don’t want to use sherry in this recipe, simply...

February 10, 2021

Chinese Chicken Mandarin Salad

Cooking Time: 5m

This Chinese Chicken Mandarin Salad is a delicious salad with crisp lettuce and red cabbage and the added crunch of uncooked ramen noodles. It might sound weird to add uncooked noodles to this Chinese mandarin chicken salad but when they are broken up and crushed, the noodles act like croutons....

July 24, 2020

Easy Wonton Soup

Cooking Time: 30m

This Easy Wonton Soup is a favorite in my house. We love the salty hearty broth with the delicious pork wonton parcels. Wonton soup is one of my favorite things to order from the local Chinese takeout but since we are cooking at home more often now, I have been...

May 8, 2020

Spicy Tangerine Beef

Cooking Time: 30m

This hot and Spicy Tangerine Beef is quite moreish and definitely one of my personal favorite beef dishes. I don’t even need to have guests for this recipe, I enjoy it on my own as part of most popular weekly dinners. With the addition of tangerine brings this dish a...

November 28, 2019

Chinese Fried Chicken Wings

Cooking Time: 24h 30m

These Chinese Fried Chicken Wings are all about the seasoning! Soy sauce, oyster sauce, fresh ginger, garlic, salt, and pepper combine to deliver these crunchy and delicious wings for your next game night snack. They are so authentic, you’ll think they came from your local Chinese restaurant. To make these...

November 4, 2019

Chinese Orange Chicken

Cooking Time: 30m

Citrussy and syrupy, this Chinese Orange Chicken is absolutely delicious, one of my favorite chicken recipes! The star player in this dish is the sauce. Don’t be put off by the number of ingredients – you will more than likely have most of them in your store cupboard at home....

March 6, 2019

Chinese Fried Rice

Cooking Time: 35m

This is my version of the takeout classic Chinese Fried Rice. Except you know when you make it at home it’s so much tastier PLUS you know exactly what’s going inside it! The basic ingredients for my version are rice, carrots, peas, and eggs. That’s what gives the rice its...

February 21, 2019

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