Skip to content

Get Your FREE Meal Plan →

  • Home
  • Recipes
    • By Course
      • Appetizers
      • Beverage
      • Breakfast
      • Desserts
      • Dressings & Condiments
      • Main Course
      • Salads
      • Side Dishes
      • Snacks
      • Soup
    • By Cuisine
      • American
      • Chinese
      • Chinese American
      • Japanese
      • Korean
      • Malaysian
      • Taiwanese
      • Thai
      • Vietnamese
    • By Cooking Method
      • Air Fryer
      • Grilling
      • Instant Pot
      • Meal Prep
      • Oven
      • Slow Cooker
      • Stir Fry
      • Stove Top
    • By Diet
      • AIP
      • Gluten-Free
      • Keto
      • Net Carbs
      • No Added Sugar
      • Paleo
      • Pescatarian
      • Vegan
      • Vegetarian
      • Whole30
    • By Holiday
      • Chinese New Year
      • Spring
      • Summer
      • Easter
      • Christmas
      • Thanksgiving
    • How To & Guides
  • About
  • Cookbook
  • Shop
  • Members

Home › Recipe Index › Holiday/Season

Chinese New Year Recipes

Celebrate Chinese New Year with dishes that bring joy, prosperity, and togetherness! Growing up in Taiwan with parents and grandparents from China, this has always been the biggest event of the year in my family.

Here, you’ll find my take on our Lunar New Year dishes—from savory wontons and long noodle soups to sweet Chinese almond cookies. These recipes are perfect for ringing in the Lunar New Year.

Whether you’re hosting a big family feast or a cozy dinner, you’ll discover both traditional and modern favorites to make your celebration unforgettable.

Soup

Feature image shows a big clay pot filled with daikon radish soup with clear chicken broth, sliced carrots and scallion garnish over.

Daikon soup (蘿蔔湯)

Main Course

Feature image shows Taiwanese lu rou fan served in a light blue color bowl with rice, lu dan, and blanched vegetable on the side.

Lu Rou Fan (Slow cooker Taiwanese braised pork rice)

Soup

An overhead feature image shows a bowl of delicious Creamy chicken and rice soup Taiwanese style with garlic chips, ginger, green onions, and a poached egg served in one bowl.

Taiwanese chicken rice soup

Soup

Feature image shows a big bowl of Taiwanese beef noodle soup served with bok choy and pickled mustard greens in the bowl with chopsticks.

Taiwanese beef noodle soup

Main Course

Feature image shows air fryer orange chicken with rice, broccoli, and orange sauce in a bowl.

Air fryer orange chicken

Condiments

Feature image shows orange sauce made simple at home in a glass bowl with a spoon.

Orange sauce

Soup

An overhead image shows simple chicken hot pot broth.

Hot pot broth

Soup

Feature overhead image shows spicy chicken noodle soup in a donabe soup pot with ramen noodles, cooked chicken, mushrooms, and vegetable, plus a fried egg on top.

Spicy chicken noodle soup

Desserts

Feature image shows delicious Chinese almond cookies baked to golden brown and nutty delicious.

Chinese almond cookies

Drinks

Feature image shows a cup of Japanese royal milk tea served in a teacup with extra glasses on the side.

Royal Milk Tea

How To & Guides

Feature image shows 5 different wonton filling recipes.

Wonton filling recipe ideas

Appetizers

An overhead feature image shows a plate of juicy chicken wontons with spicy sesame sauce served in a blue white color bowl.

Chicken wontons with spicy sesame sauce

Side Dishes

Feature image shows a bowl of Chinese sticky rice stuffing with sausage, shiitake, chestnuts served in a blue white color bowl.

Sticky rice stuffing

Soup

Feature image shows a bowl of shrimp wonton soup with northern Chinese style wonton broth served in a blue white color bowl.

Authentic Shrimp Wonton Soup

Main Course

Feature image shows a big plate of tender shrimp with velvety lobster sauce.

Shrimp with lobster sauce

Soup

Feature image shows a pot of Napa cabbage soup with egg ribbons in a claypot.

Napa cabbage egg drop soup

Main Course

Image shows a bowl of Chinese braised beef stew with daikon and carrots.

Chinese beef stew

Soup

Feature image shows a bowl of lotus root soup with baby pork ribs and broth served in a soup bowl.

Lotus root soup with pork ribs

Soup

Image shows a bowl of Chinese winter melon soup with chicken and shiitake in a soup bowl.

Winter melon chicken soup

How To & Guides

Image shows fluffy white rice made from a rice cooker and fluff with a rice paddle.

How to cook rice in a rice cooker

Posts navigation

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • …
  • 8
  • Go to Next Page

As Seen In:

Greatist
Huffpost
Women's Health
New York Post
PureWow
MindBodyGreen
NBC News
SheKnows
Back to top
I Heart Umami®

©2025 I Heart Umami®. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy • Terms and Conditions • Accessibility Statement • Powered by CultivateWP.