🇨🇳 Cuisine

Chinese recipes

Wok heat, velveting and the balance of salt and sweet. 215 Chinese recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.

Stir-fries, braises, dumplings, noodles and rice dishes. A stir-fry moves fast once the wok is hot, so cut and measure everything before you start, and keep the sauce mixed in a bowl beside the hob.

The 215 recipes cover all ten of the site’s categories, among them 105 dinners, 34 appetisers and small plates, 34 quick meals, 17 lunches, 10 desserts and 5 bakes. Of these, 87 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Bok Choy with Garlic (10 min), Sichuan Cucumber Salad (10 min) and Cabbage Stir Fry with Garlic (13 min). For 87, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 123 easy, 75 medium and 17 hard.

As written, 62 are vegetarian, 42 vegan, 18 gluten-free and 188 dairy-free. Another 3 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.