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Chinese New Year recipes

Kung Hei Fat Choy! Cooking authentic Chinese food for the new year celebrations is a voyage of discovery. Prepare to feast on your favourites, but don’t forget to master your chopstick technique – a knife and fork just won’t do on this occasion!

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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.
Chocolate-dipped fortune cookies
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This delicious fish dish uses Asian-spices to create a flavoursome burger, made with fresh salmon fillets, zesty lime and fiery red chilli.
Asian-spiced salmon burgers with pickled cucumber
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Kids will love to help make these giant meatballs, perfect for a Chinese New Year feast. The meatballs are flavoured with fresh ginger and spring onions before being baked with a sticky plum glaze.
Chinese lion's head pork meatballs
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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
Gong bao chicken
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Celebrate Chinese 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.
Pancake spring rolls
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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
Shanghai noodles
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Revamp this popular Chinese takeaway dish with a turkey, mixed with pineapple veggies and sweet and sour sauce.
Sweet and sour turkey balls
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Swap your Friday night takeaway for a speedy homemade version. This pork noodle stir-fry is ready in just twenty minutes – quicker than a delivery! Using Chinese five-spice means you don’t have to juggle lots of individual herbs and spices.
Five-spice pork stir-fry
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Popular Chinese New Year recipes

Chicken noodle stir-fry
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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.
  • Serves 4
  • 30 mins
  • 478 calories
Gong bao chicken
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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
  • Serves 2
  • 10 mins to prepare and 10 mins to cook
  • 273 calories
Beef and black bean chow mein
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Make this beef and black bean chow mein for an easy Chinese dinner. Crispy soy-marinated beef, fresh spring onions and egg noodles in a glossy black bean sauce combine for an speedy 30-min meal.
  • Serves 4
  • 30 mins
  • 469 calories
Salmon egg-fried rice
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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
  • Serves 4
  • 20 mins
  • 363 calories
Ken Hom vegetable chow mein
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Celebrity chef Ken Hom shares a delicious recipe, perfect for a traditional Chinese banquet
  • Serves 4
  • 15 mins
  • 292 calories
Noodle, rice & pork soup
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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.
  • Serves 4
  • 45 mins
  • 320 calories
Ken Hom beef and black bean stir fry
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Who needs a takeaway, when you can make this delicious Ken Hom recipe at home? The subtle, savoury taste of black bean paste is a great match with beef; the peppers add a tasty crunch, the orange zest adds some pep, while the chillies add some fire.
  • Serves 2
  • 20 mins
  • 395 calories
King prawns in ginger and garlic
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Celebrate Lunar New Year with this zingy king prawns in ginger and garlic recipe from Kwan Ying
  • Serves 2
  • 25 mins
  • 125 calories

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