2024 has been a wonderful year for us at My Chinese Home Kitchen. Jing graduated from culinary school and received her diploma. Our site traffic has more than doubled over last year thanks to our growing base of loyal readers. That traffic growth gives us real insight into what you, our fans, like to cook at home. So, we are happy to present our most popular recipes of 2024.
In 2024 we added a new category for healthy, authentic, delicious Chinese recipes. Most authentic Chinese home cooking is very healthy and economical. For those counting carbohydrates, we have over 60 recipes that are low in carbohydrates, and more are added regularly.
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Most Popular Recipes of 2024
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Chinese Deep-fried Garlic Pork Ribs
This recipe is our all time most popular recipe. Easy to make, and delicious, it will change the way you eat pork ribs.
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Sautéed Mushrooms with Broccoli
You'll find it easy to "eat your veggies" with this quick and nutritious side dish. A few simple steps and a couple common seasonings are all that's required.
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Stir-fried Pork with Snow Peas
A simple, savory pork dish, with a healthy contrast of textures and good nutrition.
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Fried Pork Tenderloin
A guilty-pleasure snack, this simple recipe yields finger food your party guests will find difficult to resist.
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Chinese Chicken Stock
Chinese chicken stock uses different aromatic vegetables than Western-style stocks. This stock is easy to make, and helps you stretch your food dollar by using every part of the chicken. Chinese style chicken stock provides the base for other popular dishes, such as wonton soup, and adds flavor to specialty dishes like our Fujian Salty Rice.
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Chinese Spicy Clams with Black Bean Sauce
If you like steamed clams, this delicious and savory dish adds a wonderfully tasty sauce with a simple extra step.
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Chinese Hot Spicy Chicken Wings
Another party favorite, these fried wings are seasoned with a mix of Chinese chili powder, hot chilies, green onion, Shaoxing wine, soy sauce and oyster sauce. Savory and spicy in perfect combination. For a hotter spice, add an extra teaspoon of chili powder or a couple extra xiaomi la peppers.
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Authentic Mapo Tofu
Mapo Tofu is a classic Sichuan dish, popular around the world. Jing's authentic version is easy to make at home, and always a popular favorite with guests.
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Cumin Squid Tentacles with Chili
A savory, spicy Chinese-style calamari. If you don't want to use the tentacles of the squid, just pick up a package of frozen (un-breaded) calamari rings and thaw. This is also one of the quickest recipes on My Chinese Home Kitchen. Chop the garlic, hot peppers, and cilantro, cut the calamari rings into quarters, and cook in your hot wok for 2 minutes. The sauce goes great over rice, or you can serve it on sliced cucumber as shown.
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Tomato, Beef, and Potato Soup
This is actually a simple family recipe. It's not really a soup, but vegetables and beef in a broth. A true Chinese soup is mostly liquid. In this case, the broth and ingredients are almost 1:1. This dish is eaten a bit like curry, paired with rice. Jing made this dish for her friend, Yun. She likes to pour broth into the rice and mix it together to coat and flavor the rice.
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Chicken Fried Rice
Fried rice is one of my favorite comfort foods, and it's a great way to use up leftovers, including rice left from last night's dinner. The rice should be on the dry side. Moist rice will turn mushy and sticky.
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Pork Fried Rice
For a really delicious pork-fried rice, use Chinese barbecued pork, called char siu (叉燒). Our recipe for char siu is easy to make, and we offer three different methods from charcoal roasted to toaster oven broiler. You can use pork loin, pork belly, or pork shoulder. Loin will yield drier meat due to lower fat content, whereas pork belly will be the juiciest due to the higher fat content.
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Braised Chicken Breast
A delicious, tender, red-braised chicken dish that's easy to make.
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Boneless Chicken Feet
We Chinese use the whole chicken in the kitchen. In addition to feathers and bones, Chinese can cook a chicken from head to toe, from skin to viscera, and then serve it to the table. I know Americans don't eat chicken feet, but I still want to introduce today's dish, Boneless Chicken Feet. This dish is very popular in China, it is a favorite of all ages. It's more like a delicious snack, like Buffalo-style Chicken Wings.
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Jing’s Steamed Chicken Drumsticks
This recipe is Jing's own creation: steamed chicken legs in a spicy and savory broth with Napa cabbage. This recipe does not use any oil. This has two advantages: it avoids the unhealthy fats in some cooking oils, and it is more economical than cooking with oil. This dish takes its flavor from natural ingredients like garlic, chili pepper, salt, and white pepper, light and dark soy sauces, oyster sauce, and cooking wine. You can add your favorite vegetables to this dish if you want. Carrots, potatoes, or other vegetables make good additions. Jing used Napa cabbage, but you can add or substitute as you prefer. You can also substitute other parts of the chicken, such as breasts or thighs.
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Jing’s Dry Pot Braised Shrimp
One of my personal favorites, this recipe gives the flavor of spicy Sichuan hot pot without all the bother of making a steaming pot of broth. Perfect for two to three people, the potatoes absorb the flavor of the spicy broth and the celery adds a satisfying crunchy texture. The shell keeps the shrimp from drying out in the cooking process, but if you prefer, you can peel the shrimp and brown them directly in the wok–just be sure to sprinkle them with a little salt, Shaoxing wine, and a light coating of corn starch before you brown them.
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Chinese-style Spicy Crayfish
Try this simple recipe for your next crayfish boil. Spicy and delicious!
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Shrimp Fried Rice
Fried rice is a snack dish in China: it is an easy way to use leftover rice. There are many fried rice recipes. They all share two things in common: left over, firm, cold rice, and a very hot wok or skillet to heat the rice evenly through rapid stirring and turning. The secret to successful fried rice is in how you prepare the rice beforehand. If you follow the instructions on a bag of rice sold in an American grocery, you will get sticky, gummy fried rice. See the Notes below for guidance in preparing your rice.
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Cold Shredded Chicken Salad
On My Chinese Home Kitchen, we have many recipes that use chicken breast as the main ingredient, such as Kung Pao chicken (restaurant- and home-style) and Easy Fried Chicken cutlets. Today we will use chicken breast as the main ingredient again, and present it to you in a new way of cooking, which is the best cold mix cooking for summer. We have a lot of recipes for cold mixed vegetables, and today we have a delicious cold shredded chicken recipe!
Taste: salty and spicy
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Jing’s Fried Pork Belly with Chili
Another of my personal favorites, this recipe combines the influence of Jing's mother's cooking with her family's Hakka roots. This spicy and savory dish produces a delicious broth that pairs well with rice. When I entertain, this is one of my most requested recipes.
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