Chinese Recipes
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Basic White Rice
How to use a fixed ratio of long-grain rice to water to make basic steamed white rice.
Scallion Oil Noodles (葱油拌面 / cōng yóu bàn miàn)
These scallion oil noodles are quintessential to Shanghainese cuisine, and they're very easy to make at home with just a few ingredients. Try the recipe today!
Tang Yuan
This Chinese dessert is a favorite for Lunar New Year, or really, any time. Rice flour rounds filled with black sesame are simmered in sweet ginger soup until bobbing and shiny like pearls. When you scoop a dumpling with a spoonful of soup, then take a bite, you first taste the subtly sweet wrapper, which yields like nougat to the soft, toasty, nutty center. Be sure to refill the spoon with soup before the second bite, because you want the ginger’s warmth to play sharp against the rich filling. Making tang yuan is as fun as eating them and nearly as easy. Soft and forgiving, the glutinous rice flour dough is simple to form and patch, no rolling pin needed.
Tang Yuan (Sweet Sesame Dumplings)
This Chinese dessert is a favorite for Lunar New Year, or really, any time. Rice flour rounds filled with black sesame are simmered in sweet ginger soup until bobbing and shiny like pearls. When you scoop a dumpling with a spoonful of soup, then take a bite, you first taste the subtly sweet wrapper, which yields like nougat to the soft, toasty, nutty center. Be sure to refill the spoon with soup before the second bite, because you want the ginger’s warmth to play sharp against the rich filling. Making tang yuan is as fun as eating them and nearly as easy. Soft and forgiving, the glutinous rice flour dough is simple to form and patch, no rolling pin needed.
Black Sesame Brittle
The flavor of the black sesame seeds comes through big and bold in this brittle, their slight bitterness tempered by the sweetness of the caramel. Best of all, this homemade candy is just a little nutty and a little funky—but always sweet.
Steamed Red Bean Buns
This classic Chinese steamed buns recipe is extremely easy and basically better than any store-bought version you can get! It takes patience but is very straightforward.
Ginger-Scallion Chicken
In this easy chicken stir-fry, adapted from Lan Hing Riggin, a home cook from Virginia who grew up cooking with her family in Hong Kong, slivers of ginger and scallions turn golden, adding their sweetness and pungency to the oil. A dash of soy sauce provides saltiness and depth, while a full cup of cilantro leaves, used as garnish, makes the dish a bit lighter and fresher. Fire seekers can add a sliced chile or two along with the ginger.
Crispy Chinese Roast Pork Belly
Known as siu yuk, this roast pork belly recipe is a classic Chinese dish. Its characteristically crispy skin is what separates the best siu yuk from the rest.
Maple Glazed Salmon with Chinese Five Spice
This maple syrup glaze salmon dish is not just easy to make but it is also incredibly, insanely, and supremely delicious.
XO Fried Rice
For this fried rice recipe, you need 5 ingredients and 10 minutes. XO sauce is a condiment of scallops, shrimp, and ham. Pricey for sure but well worth it.
2-Ingredient Duck Sauce
Having mastered many of my Chinese takeout favorites at home, it was time to try my hand at making homemade duck sauce. This easy recipe is just 2 ingredients.
Chinese sweet dumplings
Delicious Chinese sweet dumplings, filled with a tasty mix of sesame and ginger. Traditionally for lantern festival but good to enjoy any time.
Chinese Smashed Cucumbers With Sesame Oil and Garlic
In China, cucumbers are considered the ideal foil for hot weather and hot food. Versions of this salad, pai huang gua, are served all over the country, sometimes spiked with dried chiles and Sichuan peppercorns for more dimensions of flavor. In Beijing, people buy whole chilled cucumbers from street vendors and munch them on the go, much as Americans become attached to their cups of iced coffee in summer. The smashing process, a classic Chinese technique, cracks the skin, helps release the seeds and splits the flesh into appealing craggy pieces. Salting and chilling the cracked cucumbers give them the perfect cool, crunchy, watery mouth feel.
'Sichuan PaoCai' Sichuan Pickles
This sichuan paocai recipe for a naturally fermented pickle has no vinegar. The process is simple as vegetables soak in a jar with nothing but seasoned brine.
Inside Out Sweet Mochi Soup (紅豆湯小圓子)
Called Hong Dou Tang (red bean soup) xiao yuan zi, this recipe involves cooking adzuki beans until they fall apart, then adding sugar and glutinous rice balls.
Chinese Steam Chicken
This is a Steamed Chicken Drumsticks recipe that comes from my Grandma. A versatile dish that is delicious the day of, the next day, or to eat cold as a snack.
Stir-Fried Baby Turnips With Spring Onions, Green Garlic and Tofu
The fresh ginger I’m finding at springtime farmers’ markets is new and juicy, like the spring garlic and onions. I’m sure this is going to be just one of many springtime stir-fries, but right now it’s a favorite. It’s inspired by an irresistible bunch of baby turnips I bought at a Sunday farmers’ market. The turnips were no bigger than a small round radish, but their greens were lush – I had about 6 cups of leaves after I’d stripped them from the stems. Sweet spring onions and green garlic contrast beautifully with the bitter flavor of the turnip greens.
Chinese Egg and Tomato Soup
This is a tomato-based soup swirled with wispy scrambled egg, warming ginger and the satisfying umami of soy sauce. This recipe is a must try!
Pan Seared and Steamed Baby Bok Choy
I used the potsticker method to create a simple bok choy dish. I cannot say that this is a particularly unique or innovative recipe but I enjoyed the results and hope you do too.
Stir-Fried Chinese Broccoli and Chicken With Hoisin
The extra step to “velvet” the chicken is worth it for such tender, succulent chicken. I always look for sustainably raised chicken.
Easiest Chicken with Spring Onion Chinese Vinegar Sauce
This sweet dark Chinese vinegar Onion sauce is delicious on leftover fried Chicken, or can be used on poached, steamed, or grilled chicken. Try this recipe!
Baked Cod with Miso
The short ingredient list and almost-as-brief method betray the depth of flavor in this baked miso cod recipe. Marinate cod in a mirin-miso mixture, then bake!
Chinese five-spice bbq ribs
A relative from Burma gave me this Chinese Five-Spice Dry Rub Ribs recipe. It's simple and really tasty, with very few ingredients. Try it!
Quick Steamed Flounder With Ginger-Garlic Mustard Greens
This recipe, inspired by a Chinatown dinner, puts the bold tastes of sesame oil, ginger and soy sauce front and center. Here, a steamed piece of flounder sits on a bed of mustard greens, limp, tender and infused with garlic. The greens take the place of choy sum, a relative of bok cho, and give the dish a slightly mustardy flavor. It’s a quick, healthy weeknight dinner packed with flavor. Try it tonight.