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Cooking authentic Eastern-inspired food is easy with our simple Lunar New Year recipes and ideas. From stir-fried mains to dumpling sides, get the family together and make it a meal to remember with your own Lunar New Year food traditions.
Cure your takeaway cravings with Verna Gao's crispy honey garlic chicken. This Chinese-inspired recipe is perfect for your Lunar New Year celebrations. It's cooked in the air-fryer for extra crispiness!
You can’t go wrong with a classic chicken stir-fry. This simple recipe combines sticky soy sauce glazed chicken thighs, with plenty of veg, toasted cashews and noodles for dinner on the table in half an hour.
Chef Kwoklyn says: “Fish is a staple during New Year celebrations. The word for fish in Chinese sounds similar to the word for “surplus”, heralding a wish for good fortune in the coming year.”
Celebrate the Lunar New Year in style with this simple yet authentic, healthy yet delicious rice dish
Celebrate the Lunar New Year in style with this simple yet authentic side dish
These asian pork cakes are made from sausage meat and a host of fragrant ingredients including garlic, lime, coriander and ginger. Served on rice noodles dressed with lime and fish sauce, this dish is gloriously refreshing yet satisfying.
This classic Chinese recipe is super speedy and simply involves stir-frying chicken, shiitake mushrooms, pak choi and satisfyingly thick, stodgy udon noodles. Cooking in a wok on a high heat gets tender, soy-glazed ingredients singing with flavour
Celebrate the Lunar New Year in style with a flavour-packed feast of sweet and sour ribs
Celebrate Lunar New Year with these simple spring rolls filled with ham, noodles and raw veg. These are great for making with the kids – let everyone customise their own for a fun celebratory feast.
Kids will love to help make these giant meatballs, perfect for a Lunar New Year feast. The meatballs are flavoured with fresh ginger and spring onions before being baked with a sticky plum glaze.
Celebrity chef Ken Hom shares a delicious recipe, perfect for a traditional Chinese banquet
Sweet and sour chicken is a takeaway favourite, but actually very easy to make at home. With a sweet, sticky sauce, crunchy veg and juicy pineapple, this homemade version is great to rustle up for a Friday night in, or to celebrate Lunar New Year.
Celebrate Lunar New Year with this homemade version of that takeaway classic, sticky lemon chicken. Crisp golden chicken is coated in a glossy lemon sauce for a delicious sweet and sour dinner for all the family.
British-Chinese chef, Jeremy Pang chose this dish for Lunar New Year as noodles signify long life in Chinese traditions. 'It's also the type of dish that I often cook for my kids. It's super-easy to make and I know that they'll gobble it up without any fuss', says Jeremy.
Food writer, author and photographer, Uyen Luu shares her favourite dish for Lunar New Year – this rice congee. 'This light brothy rice porridge is a very humble dish', explains Uyen, 'made luxurious with the sweet, sour and spicy chicken salad; its cold and crunchy textures contrasting with the silky, hot and warming soup. Using a whole chicken symbolises togetherness.'
'Fish is commonly served during the Lunar New Year because of its association with prosperity and abundance', explains Malaysian-Australian chef and author, Helen Goh. Her sea bass recipe includes the hot oil 'treatment', which serves to firm up the flesh of the fish. This dish is great as part of a feast for Lunar New Year celebrations.
Make use of your slow-cooker with this succulent slow-cooked Chinese pork. Pork shoulder is braised slowly in a sticky soy, ginger and chilli sauce until meltingly tender – serve with noodles, fresh coriander and a sprinkling of extra red chillies.
For a speedy and delicious dinner ready in just 20 minutes, try this fragrant Chinese stir-fried beef with broccoli and cashew nuts
Get two of your 5-a-day in this quick and easy stir-fry recipe with broccoli, chillies and sesame seeds
Celebrate Lunar New Year with this zingy king prawns in ginger and garlic recipe from Kwan Ying
It's fast and easy to whip up this Chinese-style egg friend rice for a quick lunch or midweek meal. With flakes of salmon caramelised with honey and soy for a sweet taste, you can ramp-up the heat with slices of red chilli
This delicious Chinese chicken dish is flavoured with fresh ginger, garlic, chilli and peanuts, and drizzled in a soy-infused sauce. A classic Chinese recipe that can be made in just 20 minutes and a great dinner for two idea
Chef Kwoklyn says: "As New Year dawns, families gather to indulge in food symbolising hopes for the year ahead. Spring rolls are among the favourites."
Chef Kwoklyn says: “In the Chinese culture long noodles, often referred to as ‘long-life noodles’, represent a wish for a long prosperous life. Savour the rich flavour while embracing wishes for a year of health, happiness and prosperity.”
Chef Kwoklyn says: “As Chinese New Year unfolds, it’s customary to serve dumplings - symbols of wealth and prosperity. Their golden crescent shape resembles ancient Chinese gold ingots, promising fortune for the year ahead.”
Forget ordering in and make this easy beef chow mein at home in no time. Juicy rump steak is stir-fried with mushrooms and mangetout and served on crispy noodles for a takeaway classic ready in just 30 mins.
Try our riff on the classic Chinese sweet chilli chicken recipe; it's made with just five shortcut ingredients and ready in 15 minutes.
This is a protein-rich warming and comforting dish perfect for the colder weather
The best bit of a Chinese takeaway is always cracking open the fortune cookies at the end – but making your own is surprisingly simple. Have fun writing the fortunes to hide inside the cookies, which are dipped in chocolate and coconut for a tasty twist.
This spicy noodle soup could soon become a midweek staple. Finely sliced pork, shallots and basil in an aromatic broth base flavoured with ginger, garlic and aniseed. Add any cooked rice you may have leftover to thicken the soup and use fish sauce to adjust the seasoning.
Swap your stir-fry for a comforting chicken noodle broth, using all the same ingredients for a speedy winter-warmer filled with tender chicken, colourful veg and egg noodles.