Chinese New Year Recipes
Chinese New Year is a major festive celebration, marking the celebration of Lunar New Year.
It is a time for families to reunite and enjoy delicious snacks and foods such as dumplings, whole fish, noodles and sticky rice cakes, which symbolize abundance and prosperity.
Dumplings
From savory pork dumplings to sweet glutinous rice dumplings, these filled morsels represent good luck.
- Chinese Pork Dumplings (餃子)
- Savory Tang Yuan Soup
- Peanut Tang Yuan (Glutinous Rice Balls)
- Vegetable and Turkey Dumplings with Black Vinegar Dipping Sauce
Main Dishes
It's customary to include a major protein at the celebratory dinner table, whether that be Lion's Head Meatballs, braised pork belly, Peking duck, steamed whole fish or whole chicken.
Snacks
Any Chinese New Year's celebration needs snacks, and these savory hand-held treats, such as Prawn Crackers (keropok) or Pork Jerky will have you coming back for more!
Sweets
As with any festival, sweet treats are a must! Tickle your fancy with delicious confections ranging from steamed cakes, deep fried glutinous rice balls, to crunchy peanut candy and almond cookies.
More Chinese New Year Recipes
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Lamb Dumplings
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Chili Oil Wontons
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Homemade Wontons
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Chinese Spring Rolls
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Chinese Dan Dan Noodles
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Sesame Biang Biang Noodles (Kudai Mian)
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Homemade Chinese Sausages (Cantonese Lap Cheong)
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Chinese Turnip Cake (Lo Bak Go)
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Chinese Almond Cookies
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Chinese Red Date Candy
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Homemade Fresh Spring Roll Wrappers
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Chinese Macau-Style Almond Mung Bean Cookies
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Matcha Red Bean Mochi
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Strawberry Red Bean Mochi
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Bubur Cha Cha (Malaysian Coconut Milk Dessert)
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Oozy Matcha Tang Yuan
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Rose Siu Mai 燒賣 (Steamed Pork and Shrimp Dumplings)
