Dinner
Orange Chicken
The most ordered dish in American Chinese restaurants: craggy fried chicken tossed in a bright, sticky sauce built…
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Chinese dinner recipes
103 Chinese dinner recipes, in a suggested order.
These are the 103 Chinese recipes filed under dinner: 103 of the 2,108 dinners on the site, and 103 of its 211 Chinese recipes. Of these, 37 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Stir-Fried Water Spinach (15 min), Shrimp and Pepper Stir-Fry (18 min) and Choy Sum in Oyster Sauce (20 min). For 40, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 57 easy, 39 medium and 7 hard.
As written, 14 are vegetarian, 13 vegan, 7 gluten-free and 94 dairy-free.
Chinese main dishes
Dinner
Kung Pao Chicken
Sichuan's most travelled dish, done properly: velveted chicken, blistered dried chillies, the numbing buzz of…
Dinner
Beef and Broccoli
The most useful stir-fry in the repertoire: velveted beef, crisp-tender broccoli and a savoury oyster sauce gravy…
Dinner
General Tso's Chicken
The Chinese-American classic: crackling battered chicken in a sticky, tangy, faintly sweet sauce with a lick of…
Dinner
Sweet and Sour Pork
Cantonese gu lou yuk with a genuinely crisp coating and a sauce balanced by real pineapple and rice vinegar rather…
Dinner
Sesame Chicken
Orange chicken's darker, nuttier sibling: the same shattering fried crust in a soy and honey glaze thickened with…
Dinner
Chicken Chow Mein
Springy egg noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables in a savoury brown sauce, with a few noodles crisped against…
Dinner
Mapo Tofu
Silken tofu in a fierce, oily red sauce of fermented broad bean paste, minced pork and Sichuan peppercorn. Fifteen…
Dinner
Red-Braised Pork Belly
Red-braised pork belly: cubes of belly caramelised in melted rock sugar, then braised in soy and Shaoxing wine until…
Dinner
Char Siu Pork
Cantonese barbecue pork with a sticky, deeply burnished glaze and rings of red at the edge. It takes forty minutes…
Dinner
Singapore Noodles
Thin rice vermicelli stained yellow with curry powder, tossed with prawns, char siu and egg. Despite the name it is…
Dinner
Dan Dan Noodles
Chengdu street noodles: a pool of chilli oil, sesame paste and black vinegar at the bottom of the bowl, topped with…
Dinner
Beef Chow Fun
Wide rice noodles seared in a smoking wok with velveted beef, beansprouts and chives. Judged on wok hei and on…
Dinner
Xinjiang Cumin Lamb
Xinjiang's signature: lamb seared hard in a smoking wok with whole cumin seed, chilli flakes and nothing much else…
Dinner
Twice-Cooked Pork
Sichuan's huiguorou: pork belly simmered whole, cooled, sliced paper-thin and returned to a searing wok with…
Dinner
Shui Zhu Fish
White fish poached in a chilli and Sichuan pepper broth, buried under dried chillies and garlic, and finished by…
Dinner
Lion's Head Meatballs
Enormous pork meatballs braised in a light broth with cabbage, so tender they barely hold together. From Huaiyang…
Dinner
Baked Tofu with Garlic and Ginger
Slabs of pressed tofu baked crisp with a sticky glaze of garlic, ginger, rice vinegar and maple syrup, scattered…
Dinner
Beef and Green Bean Stir-Fry
Sliced sirloin and green beans stir-fried with garlic and ginger in a light soy sauce, with no added sugar. Four…
Dinner
Beef Fried Rice
Thin slices of sirloin seared and tossed with cold rice, egg whites, peas, carrot and spring onions, seasoned with…
Dinner
Beef in Black Bean Sauce
Thin slices of steak stir-fried with green pepper, onion, garlic and fermented black beans in a glossy savoury…
Dinner
Beef in Oyster Sauce
Thin slices of beef tenderised with bicarbonate of soda and stir-fried fast with ginger, spring onion and oyster…
Dinner
Beggar's Chicken
A whole chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, sealed in clay and baked for three hours, then broken open at the table…
Dinner
Beijing Beef
Crisp strips of beef tossed in a sticky sweet, tangy and mildly hot sauce with peppers and onion. The…
Dinner
Braised Beef Brisket
Brisket and daikon braised for three hours in a chu hou and bean paste sauce until the tendon has gone to jelly. The…
Dinner
Chicken Cauliflower Fried Rice
Cauliflower blitzed to rice grains and fried hard with chicken thigh, egg and spring onion — the wok dish with…
Dinner
Chicken and Cabbage Stir-Fry
Chicken and shredded cabbage stir-fried with carrot, spring onion, garlic and ginger in a light low-sodium soy…
Dinner
Chicken and Green Bean Stir-Fry
Chicken and crisp green beans stir-fried with garlic and ginger in a light sauce of low-sodium soy sauce and rice…
Dinner
Chicken and Pepper Stir-Fry
Thin strips of chicken stir-fried with red, yellow and green peppers, onion, garlic and ginger in a light sauce of…
Dinner
Chicken Congee
Rice simmered for an hour in plenty of water with a piece of chicken breast and ginger, until it becomes a silky…
Dinner
Chicken Fried Rice
Diced chicken and cold rice stir-fried with egg whites, peas, carrot and spring onions, seasoned with a tablespoon…
Dinner
Chicken Rice Noodle Stir-Fry
Thin chicken, cabbage and carrot tossed with rice noodles, lime juice, garlic, ginger and chilli, with no soy sauce…
Dinner
Chinese Lemon Chicken
Crisp, golden strips of chicken deep-fried in a light cornflour coating and tossed in a glossy, sharp-sweet lemon…
Dinner
Chongqing Chicken
Small pieces of crisp chicken buried in a pile of dried red chillies and Sichuan peppercorns, tossed in a hot wok…
Dinner
Claypot Rice
Rice cooked in a clay pot with sausage and chicken laid on top, until a crisp golden crust forms on the base that…
Dinner
Ginger and Scallion Crab
Whole crab chopped through the shell, dusted in cornflour, flash-fried and tossed with a mountain of ginger and…
Dinner
Crispy Aromatic Duck
Duck legs cooked slowly with five-spice, ginger and star anise until they fall off the bone, then crisped in a hot…
Dinner
Da Pan Ji
Chicken, potatoes and peppers stewed with beer and chilli in one enormous plate, with wide hand-pulled noodles slid…
Dinner
Dongpo Rou
Squares of pork belly tied with string and braised in Shaoxing wine and soy for three hours, until the fat is…
Dinner
Duo Jiao Yu Tou
A split fish head steamed under a mound of chopped salted red chillies. Hunan's signature, and it uses fresh pickled…
Dinner
Freezer Dumplings
Pork and cabbage dumplings pleated by hand, frozen on a tray and kept in bags, steamed from frozen in 10 minutes.
Dinner
Garlic Beef Stir-Fry
Thin slices of flank steak stir-fried with six sliced garlic cloves, ginger and green beans in a light low-sodium…
Dinner
Garlic Pork Stir-Fry
Thin slices of pork loin stir-fried with six sliced garlic cloves, ginger, shredded cabbage and spring onions in a…
Dinner
Ginger Scallion Chicken
Gently poached chicken breasts, sliced and spooned with a sizzling ginger and spring onion oil, rice vinegar and…
Dinner
Home-Style Tofu
Tofu triangles fried until golden and puffed, then braised with pork and doubanjiang. What Sichuan households cook…
Dinner
Honey Chilli Chicken
Crisp chicken strips tossed in a sticky honey, chilli and soy glaze with garlic and sesame seeds.
Dinner
Honey Prawns
Crisp battered king prawns tossed in a sticky honey and lemon glaze softened with a spoonful of mayonnaise and…
Dinner
Hong Kong Chow Mein
Thin egg noodles cooked in a hot wok with soy sauce, bean sprouts and spring onions until golden and crisp at the…
42 more chinese main dishes, A–Z
- Instant Pot Beef and Broccoli
- Instant Pot General Tso Chicken
- Instant Pot Mongolian Beef
- Instant Pot Orange Chicken
- La Zi Ji
- Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup
- Low-Carb Stir Fry
- Mei Cai Kou Rou
- Mongolian Beef
- Mongolian Lamb
- Pork and Cabbage Dumplings
- Pork Belly Bao
- Pork Chop Suey
- Pork Fried Rice
- Pork Meatball Soup
- Prawn Noodle Soup
- Salt Baked Chicken
- Salted Egg Prawns
- Salted Egg Yolk Chicken
- Sesame Greens with Tofu
- Shrimp and Pepper Stir-Fry
- Shrimp Fried Rice
- Sichuan Boiled Beef
- Siu Yuk
- Soy Sauce Chicken
- Steamed Fish with Ginger
- Steamed Ribs with Black Bean
- Steamed Whole Fish
- Sweet and Sour Chicken
- Sweet and Sour Prawns
- Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs
- Sweet Corn Soup
- Tea Smoked Duck
- Tofu and Cabbage Stir-Fry
- Tofu and Edamame Stir-Fry
- Tofu Pineapple Stir-Fry
- Turkey Stir-Fry with Peppers
- White Cut Chicken
- Yangzhou Fried Rice
- Yong Tau Foo
- Yuxiang Rousi
- Zhajiangmian
Starters and snacks 1
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- Chicken with Cashew Nuts 35 min
Side dishes 12
Filed under Dinner but not a main dish on its own: side dish. Filter these.
- Choy Sum in Oyster Sauce 20 min
- Di San Xian 60 min
- Dry-Fried Green Beans 35 min
- Eggplant with Garlic Sauce 25 min
- Hot and Sour Potato Slivers 23 min
- Mapo Eggplant 35 min
- One Pot Fried Rice 25 min
- Stir-Fried Lotus Root 25 min
- Stir-Fried Water Spinach 15 min
- Vegan Fried Rice 25 min
- Vinegar Cabbage 20 min
- Yuxiang Aubergine 50 min