15 Recipes for the Chinese New Year
The lunar new year is less than a week away, though I tend to think of it as the Chinese new year, and that is the perfect excuse to pull out my favourite Chinese recipes! Chinese cuisine is extremely varied with many tasty dishes and my favourites include a lot of dishes from the Sichuan province for their use of spicy hot chili peppers and mouth numbing Sichuan peppercorns with their amazing aroma! On the Chinese New Year come foods are considered lucky including things like long noodles, spring rolls, lettuce, oranges, whole fish, whole chicken, sticky rice cakes and more. No matter what you choose to go for for the Chinese New Year you really can't go wrong and here are a few of my favourites!
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15 comments:
Really great post, I think I'll be cooking up a Chinese feast this weekend! Sharon
I love tofu and oh, I so incredibly muchly please dear goodness want some now.
I just love your recipes and your blog. Always very creative. I too will be posting about the Chinese New Year this weekend. Thanks for sharing!
I love your recipes and your blog. I am a subcriber and always get excited to see what you do next. I too will be blogging about the New Year this weekend. Thanks for sharing!
I'm definitely going to try the honey lemon chicken! It looks delicious and it seems simple enough. I'm new to your site, but I'm officially addicted! Kevin, you're awesome!
Mapo eggplant deceived me! It looks so scrumptious like some meat thing slathered in thick oyster sauce, but wait! It's eggplant in homemade mapo sauce!? I gotta try this out.
You got me extra excited for Chinese New Year!
I don't think I've tried any of these! Need to change that.
As usual, Kevin - you ROCK!! The photos just keep getting better and better and the dishes... well I'm drooling. This Chinese New Year could keep on going until the next one.
I am truly hungry now and don't know where to start!
thank you for this! i can't wait for chinese new year...
I LOVE chinese food, esp. Sichuanese. Given that we are vegetarians most of these listed here would be with tofu. Kung Pao and Mapo are like eternal favs. Can't wait to try the Mapo Eggplant (never heard of that one before!) and the dumplings. Yum!
love this recipe roundup...we are loving asian foods right now so i am getting lots of ideas!
Pauline: The eggplant make a wonderful substitution for the tofu in mapo eggplant!
I'm looking forward to cooking some of these deliciously looking dishes.I cook most of my meals at home and any new ideas are always appreciated. Could you bring from time to time some info about new or interesting grocery stores where one can get the ingredients mentioned in the recipes? I live in the greater Toronto area and when I'm to cook a Chinese or Asian dish I tend to turn to usual suspects in the city. It would be nice to know about other places, too.
Pat Nayar: Nice list of stores! For my Japanese groceries I normally head down to Sanko on Queen West. I like this small grocery store opposite PatMart and west a few blocks that is on the lower level for Korean grocery needs.
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