Plan your Chinese new year dinner with this recipe collection from traditional CNY appetizer to dessert and anything in between.
These golden Steamed Money Bag Dumplings are a Chinese New Year specialty. Make them for the holiday, and they will help you ring in the lunar new year with abundance and good fortune!
A fresh whole fish steamed to a tender texture, seasoned with a delicious dressing, Chinese steamed fish requires little cooking skill but tastes incredible.
we enlisted my dad in the whole act and he grumbled his way through. To him grating was dull and boring and he wouldn't dare say it but we knew he thought it was "woman's work" but he ended up doing a pretty good job (although my mother had to fix it up afterwards as the carrot slices were too thick). The sauce is what transforms it and it's a sweet sauce with the surprising addition of apricot jam (yes really!). The proportions of course depend on how many people you are serving, Yee Sang salad is very easy to make for a large crowd and you may find yourself inadvertantly making a huge one as it's made up of small piles of grated vegetables.
Chinese Fa Gao (fāgāo - 发糕), also known as prosperity cake or fortune cake, is a common sight around Chinese New Year. It’s also served at other holidays, ceremonial events, and weddings. This fa gao recipe will walk you through how to make it.
This is the recipe in its simplest form. Use this recipe as your base. Feel free to add protein (cooked ground beef, pork or chicken), some heat (chili oil, sriracha) and sautéed vegetables (shiitake mushrooms, shallots) or tofu.
One of the traditional dishes eaten during the New Year for Chinese people is a New Year Cake. It's a very simple steamed cake, made with glutinous rice flour for a mochi-like chewy texture and sweetened with brown sugar.
This cookie seems to be a hot favourite item for the upcoming Chinese New Year. I have seen many bloggers featuring this item whilst i do my routinal rounds from blogs to blogs. I hopped into the b…
A classic Chinese vegetarian dish often eaten on the first day of lunar new year!
Ngoh Hiang (五香) has and will always have a special place in my heart. It may seem like an ordinary spiced pork roll wrapped in dried beancurd skin – something that is available commercially e…
A Big “Fat” Chinese New Year - A menu for every skill level
This is a baked version of the Chinese Gau, a dessert that is usually steamed and served for Chinese New Years.
Learn how to make boiled chicken wontons with chili sauce from Hsiao-Ching Chou's new cookbook, Chinese Soul Food—the perfect recipe for a Lunar New Year feast.
A complete guide to hot pot covering all aspects of preparing this iconic Chinese meal at home. It helps you to throw a stress-free hot pot party.
Food photographer and blogger Betty Liu is launching her debut cookbook, My Shanghai, dedicated to the culinary traditions of Shanghai.
Bring in the Chinese New Year with a prosperous and festive yee sang salad that is made with immense love and effort. A significant tradition, we take you step by step through the recipe and show you that it is much easier than you think!
Turnip cake is a traditional Chinese snack served at dim sum. Our family turnip cake lo bak go recipe uses Chinese sausage, dried shrimp, mushrooms and more.
Use a can of lychee to cook this chicken and lychee in sweet & sour sauce. This unique take on a familiar dish will instantly be your family's new favorite dish.
Cantonese Style Braised Pork Belly with Arrowhead Root (慈菇焖腩肉) is a traditional dish often served at Chinese New Year. Braised Pork Belly with Arrowhead is super easy to make with only 8 ingredients!
Daikon radish cake is a classic dish eaten at dimsum and during Chinese New Year. This version is a vegan take on my grandma’s recipe. I am overwhelmed and thrilled with the positive response we’ve received on my grandma’s cook-a-long stories earlier in the month. Ya’ll have been loving her sweet rice cake (nian gao) recipe as...Read More »
A classic Chinese salad combining century eggs, tofu and roasted pepper. The flavourful dressing can also be used in other dishes.
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Since the chinese follow the Lunar calendar, Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year on the Western calendar. This year, it is on February 3, 2011. In
A vibrant dish with multiple layers of flavour, mouth-watering chicken is a classic of Sichuan cuisine. It makes a great cold dish for a festive feast.
Ken Hom’s classic crispy pork takes time to prepare but demands no great skill. Egg fried rice is a great way to use up leftover rice.
Initially, I wanted prepared Mom's Radish Cake for the first few days of Lunar New Year but I couldn't find radish in the supermarket there and then. I remembered last year, it was abundant but this year, it just ran out of stock. Perhaps my timing was right for the restock. I missed mom's radish cake and since she isn't around to cook it for me, I have to do it myself. Luckily I have the recipe jotted down and had done this a few times in the past. This was another easy-to-do item and I can prepare a day in advance. No stress at all. Hubby actually helped me to slice into smaller pieces but he got mistaken this as another type of radish cake. The above is actually more dim sum style rather than those that are fried in dark soya sauce and turnips. What you need: 907g shredded white radish (strained) 750ml water 76g Chinese sausage, chopped finely 38g dried shrimps, soaked, roasted and chopped finely 3 tsp salt 1 tbsp sugar 2 tsp sesame oil Pepper For garnish: 6 shallots, sliced thinly and fried till crispy Spring onions Method: Mix together to make batter 340g rice flour 2 tbsp tapioca flour 600ml water Combine radish, fried shrimp, sausages, and water in a saucepan and simmer over low heat for 10 to 15 mins. Lower heat and add the batter, stir until mixture thickens Pour the thickened mixture to a tray and steam at high heat for ½ hour (smoothen the surface with either the back of the spoon or spatula. Test, if not cook, another further 10 mins. Cool thoroughly before cutting. Garnish with fried shallots and spring onions.
Stir-fried rice cakes are known in Chinese as “chao niángāo” (炒年糕). Our version uses pork (but you can substitute chicken) and leafy greens.
Fa Gao, or fortune cake, is a popular Chinese dessert typically eaten during the Lunar New Year to bring luck and money in the coming months. The chewy and lightly sweetened steamed cakes were traditionally leavened with yeast, which helps create the signature cracked flower-like design on top. However, nowadays bakeries often substitute double-acting baking powder; it yields the same effect in far less time. The key to the recipe is to make sure the water is at a rolling boil and generating lots of steam when you cook the cakes. That high heat works with the leavening agent to form the cracks.
Bring in the Chinese New Year with a prosperous and festive yee sang salad that is made with immense love and effort. A significant tradition, we take you step by step through the recipe and show you that it is much easier than you think!
An informative guide to homemade scallion pancakes, a layered Chinese flatbread loved for its super crispy, flaky texture and oniony, aromatic taste.
