Bang bang chicken
Sichuan · 50 min · 224 kcal
National cuisine
Chinese recipes
A family of regional cuisines built on rice in the south and wheat in the north, soy fermentation, the wok and the steamer, and a habit of balancing contrasting flavours and textures in one meal.
FriendsPantry has 87 Chinese recipes, mostly main courses, soups and noodles, from China. Popular dishes include Mapo tofu, Kung pao chicken and Red-braised pork belly.
87 recipes · associated with China · Chinese cuisine: history, staples and spices
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Beef and broccoli stir-fry
Cantonese · 30 min · 309 kcal
Beef chow fun
Cantonese · 30 min · 772 kcalBlack bean sauce
Cantonese · 14 min · 113 kcal
Cantonese egg tarts
Cantonese · 1 h 27 min · 193 kcal · Contains egg
Cantonese soy sauce chicken
Cantonese · 1 h 5 min · 466 kcal
Cantonese steamed fish with ginger and spring onion
Cantonese · 22 min · 259 kcalCantonese sweet and sour sauce
Cantonese · 8 min · 65 kcal · VeganChar siu (Cantonese barbecue pork)
Cantonese · 1 h 10 min · 392 kcalChicken and ginger congee (jook)
Cantonese · 1 h 30 min · 335 kcal
Chicken chow mein
Cantonese · 27 min · 636 kcalChilli crisp
Chinese · 1 h 15 min · 136 kcal · VeganChinese broccoli with oyster sauce
Cantonese · 13 min · 72 kcalChinese dumpling dipping sauce
Chinese · 15 min · 56 kcal · VeganChinese plum sauce
Cantonese · 1 h 15 min · 40 kcal · Vegan
Chinese steamed egg custard
Chinese · 19 min · 179 kcal
Chinese tea eggs
Chinese · 50 min · 75 kcal · Contains egg
Chongqing chilli chicken
Sichuan · 45 min · 332 kcal
Claypot rice with chicken and Chinese sausage
Hong Kong · 1 h 15 min · 816 kcal
Crossing-the-bridge rice noodles
Chinese · 40 min · 758 kcal
Da pan ji (Xinjiang big plate chicken)
Chinese · 1 h 50 min · 697 kcal
Dan bing (Taiwanese egg crepe)
Taiwanese · 15 min · 265 kcal · Contains egg
Dan dan noodles
Sichuan · 25 min · 709 kcal
Di san xian (Dongbei eggplant, potato and pepper)
Chinese · 35 min · 312 kcal · Vegan
63 more
- Chinese five-spice powder · Chinese
- Egg drop soup · Chinese
- Egg fried rice · Chinese
- Fish-fragrant aubergine · Sichuan
- Garlic bok choy stir-fry · Chinese
- Ginger-scallion sauce · Cantonese
- Gua bao (Taiwanese pork belly buns) · Taiwanese
- Guo bao rou (Dongbei sweet and sour crispy pork) · Chinese
- Home-style tofu · Sichuan
- Homemade hoisin sauce · Cantonese
- Hong Kong milk tea · Hong Kong
- Hong Kong-style mango pudding · Cantonese
- Hot and sour shredded potatoes · Chinese
- Hot and sour soup · Chinese
- Hua juan (steamed scallion flower rolls) · Chinese
- Hunan farmhouse stir-fried pork with green chillies · Chinese
- Hunan steamed fish with chopped chillies · Chinese
- Indo-Chinese schezwan sauce · Indian
- Jian dui (sesame balls) · Cantonese
- Jianbing (Chinese breakfast crepe) · Chinese
- Kung pao chicken · Sichuan
- Lemon coriander soup · Indian
- Liangpi (cold skin noodles) · Chinese
- Manchow soup · Indian
- Mantou (steamed buns) · Chinese
- Mapo tofu · Sichuan
- Oyster omelette · Taiwanese
- Pineapple bun (bo lo bao) · Hong Kong
- Pork and cabbage jiaozi · Chinese
- Pork baozi (steamed pork buns) · Chinese
- Red-braised pork belly · Chinese
- Salt and pepper tofu · Cantonese
- Scallion pancakes · Chinese
- Shandong sweet and sour carp · Chinese
- Shanghai fried noodles · Chinese
- Sichuan boiled fish · Sichuan
- Sichuan chilli oil (hong you) · Sichuan
- Sichuan cold noodles · Sichuan
- Sichuan dry-fried green beans · Sichuan
- Smashed cucumber salad · Chinese
- Sweet and sour pork · Cantonese
- Sweet corn soup (Indo-Chinese) · Indian
- Sweetcorn and egg soup · Cantonese
- Taiwanese beef noodle soup · Taiwanese
- Talumein soup · Indian
- Tangyuan (black sesame rice balls in ginger syrup) · Chinese
- Three-cup chicken · Taiwanese
- Tiger salad · Chinese
- Tomato and egg stir-fry · Chinese
- Tomato beef noodle soup · Chinese
- Twice-cooked pork · Sichuan
- Uyghur polo (lamb and carrot pilaf) · Chinese
- Vinegar-glazed napa cabbage · Chinese
- West Lake beef soup · Cantonese
- White cut chicken with ginger-scallion sauce · Cantonese
- Winter melon soup with pork ribs · Cantonese
- Wonton soup · Cantonese
- Wood ear mushroom salad · Chinese
- Xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) · Chinese
- Xinjiang cumin lamb skewers · Chinese
- XO sauce · Cantonese
- Yangzhou fried rice · Chinese
- Zhajiangmian (Beijing fried sauce noodles) · Chinese