Chinese New Year—35+ Best Recipes

This recipe for plump Har Gow, Chinese shrimp dim sum dumplings, are the perfect dish to usher in a joyful and prosperous new year.

These crispy fried wontons are filled with a ground pork and shrimp filling that's seasoned with soy sauce, ginger, garlic, sesame oil, and other seasonings. They're easy to make and fry and totally irresistible.

I cannot get enough of this savory broth studded with juicy, flavorful homemade wontons. It’s a massively comforting, crazy delicious meal that can be on the table in under 30 minutes.

This spicy, garlicky shrimp is quick and easy to make but full of flavor. It uses both spicy bean paste and chili oil with fermented black beans, both of which can be found in Chinese or Asian markets or the international foods aisle of many supermarkets.

Serve this sweet, succulent pork thinly sliced over white rice or use it to fill steamed buns or make pork fried rice.

Pillowy steamed buns are stuffed with succulent, sweet-savory char siu pork.

Pork Fried Rice is a quick, easy, and delicious one-pot meal. It’s also the best way to use up leftover cooked rice.

These flaky, golden brown pancakes make a great side dish for saucy dishes, a perfect base for sunnyside up fried eggs with runny yolks, or an addictive snack.

Seasoned with curry powder and studded with sliced Char Siu or Chinese Roast Pork, prawns, julienned carrots, thinly sliced onions, and scrambled egg, this quick noodle dish is a delicious one-skillet meal.

Sesame noodles are quick and easy to make. Flavored with toasted sesame paste, sesame oil, garlic, and ginger, they are a real crowd-pleaser.

This kung pao chicken is just like what you get at your favorite Chinese takeout restaurant. Tender bits of chicken, crunchy peanuts, a salty-sweet sauce, and a hit of spice all come together to make one delicious dish.

Tender noodles are tossed in a savory sesame sauce and topped with tofu and shiitake mushrooms. The dish is fiery, filling, and fantastically addictive.

Pieces of tender chicken are coated in egg and cornstarch and then fried to a crispy crunch and tossed in a savory-sweet, sticky sauce that is so good I could eat it with a spoon. Add a bowl of sticky white rice and some steamed vegetables and for a perfect easy meal.

Chinese Salt and Pepper Chicken is a restaurant takeout favorite and it’s easy to make at home. I love this spicy version with Szechuan peppercorns and stir-fried hot chile peppers and garlic.

Air Fryer Salt and Pepper Tofu is so delicious, it will make even non-believers into tofu lovers! It’s crispy on the outside, tender inside, and tossed with spicy chile peppers, garlic, green onions, and a mix of flavorful seasonings.

Air Fryer Salt and Pepper Chicken is easy to make without the mess—or extra calories!—of deep frying. This version gets a hit of mouth-tingling spice from Szechuan peppercorns and a topping of white pepper and stir-fried hot chiles and sliced garlic.

I love the Chinese Dry Fried Green Beans I get at my local Sichuan restaurant. They are super garlicky and studded with bits of ground pork. When I make this dish at home, though, I like to use bacon.

These Chinese steamed buns are what dreams are made of. They're light and fluffy and filled with the most delicious fillings, from Char Siu or Chinese Roast Pork to vegetables sautéed in hoisin sauce.

Chinese Five-Spice Powder is a blend made of warm spices like cinnamon, cloves, star anise, fennel, and Szechuan peppercorns. These peanuts seasoned with Five Spice make a great party snack.

Made with hearty brown rice and healing turmeric, this satisfying rice porridge is full of flavor and nutrition. It's the perfect way to start your day and your year.

Egg rolls represent good fortune for the new year because they are similar in shape to gold bars. They're also super delicious!

These dumplings are filled with savory meat and vegetables and then cooked by a combination of pan frying and steaming.

Egg Drop soup combines green onions, ginger, chicken broth and eggs together in perfect harmony for an ultra tasty yet simple soup. 

These sweet fried or steamed Pork Dumplings are filled with ground pork, cabbage, and ginger. 

The popular restaurant dish Hot and Sour Soup is quick and easy to make at home!

Peking Chicken is a nice alternative to the classic Peking Duck. It’s tender, flavorful and cooked to perfection in the slow cooker.

This roast duck recipe is jam packed with flavor. Firs the duck is braised in a Master Stock, then it's roasted to crisp up the skin.

Chicken drumsticks are marinated in a sweet sticky sauce made with soy sauce, honey, and fresh ginger and garnished with sesame seeds and chopped green onion.

Slurpable noodles and stir-fried veggies make this a flavor-packed noodle meal. 

With crispy noodles, stir-fried veggies, and a savory sauce, there’s plenty to love about this vegan version of a Chinese classic.

These Chinese omelettes are made with only 5 basic ingredients. But you can also top them off with a simple 4-ingredient egg foo young sauce.

This is the cutest thing! Fluffy tear-and-share 'tangzhong' bread rolls are shaped and decorated to look like cute little cats. Adorable, right?!

Vegetable Lo Mein recipe is a delicious, one-pan meal that can be on the table in 30 minutes or less.

These braised and then stir-fried Chicken Feet rival any dim sum restaurant. The umami-packed sauce really makes the dish.

A whole steamed fish is an auspicious dish to celebrate Chinese New Year because it symbolizes wealth and prosperity.

Chinese style vegan minced "pork" is made from tofu! It's super flavorful and can be made in just 15 minutes.

Mongolian Beef is a popular dish that's perf for family dinners, gatherings and holiday feasts.

These Red Dot Almond Cookies are the perfect sweet treat to make to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.

Made with brown sugar syrup and sweet rice flour, this cake symbolize prosperity or promotion or children growing taller.

For celebrating Chinese New Year, or just for enjoying with a cup of tea, Pineapple Cookies are an international treat to be savored.

These crisp, dragon-shaped cookies melt in your mouth.