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Chinese recipes

Chinese food needn't be difficult and limited to a stir-fry. All you need is a wok (or a big non-stick frying pan); essential ingredients like soy sauce and sesame oil and lots of fresh produce. Recreate your favourites at home, from chicken fried rice to crisp fortune cookies.

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This sizzling dairy-free Chinese stir-fry with beef and black beans is packed with fiery chilli and garlic.
Chilli beef and bean stir-fry
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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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Flavoured with spring onion and garlic, this cauliflower rice is a great addition to Chinese takeaway meals.
Egg-fried cauliflower rice
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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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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 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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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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This fast midweek meal doesn't scrimp on flavour. Packed with chilli, lemongrass and ginger, this healthy chicken fried rice dinner can be on the table in just 15 minutes
Chicken, ginger and lemongrass fried rice
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Popular Chinese 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
Chinese chicken and sweetcorn soup
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The chicken comes before the egg in this Chinese-inspired chicken and sweetcorn soup recipe. Perfect as a starter before a proper feast, this deceptively simple soup is as moreish as it gets. Dropping in beaten eggs towards the finish is a great kitchen hack.
  • Serves 4
  • 20 mins
  • 231 calories
Baked crispy kale
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When baked in the oven, kale goes gloriously crispy as this Chinese-inspired recipe shows. Here the leaves are coated in oil then baked with sesame seeds and five-spice sprinkled over the top. Don't be tempted to add salt as kale, cooked this way doesn't need it.
  • Serves 6
  • 3 mins to prepare and 12 mins to cook
  • 60 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
Stir-fried pork with noodles
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Ready in just 20 minutes, this easy pork stir-fry recipe is great for those busy weeknights when you need to get a tasty dinner on the table – fast!
  • Serves 4
  • 20 mins
  • 469 calories
One-pot prawn and noodle stir-fry
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A stir-fry supper packed with flavour but made with just six ingredients. Prawns, pak choy and straight-to-wok noodles are cooked in olive oil then lifted with soy sauce and wonderfully spicy and garlicky sriracha chilli sauce. Easy and fuss-free.
  • Serves 4
  • 15 mins
  • 271 calories

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