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Home › Recipe Index › Holiday/Season › Asian Thanksgiving

Asian Thanksgiving

Bring bold Asian flavors to your holiday table! From roasted Cornish hens and Thai-spiced Dutch oven whole chicken to miso butter baked trout and festive veggie sides, these dishes add a cozy, flavor-packed twist to traditional Thanksgiving favorites.

Even though I grew up in Taiwan, I’ve spent most of my life in the U.S., and these are the kinds of dishes I love to cook for my family during the holidays. They’re my way of blending familiar Thanksgiving comfort with the flavors I grew up with — full of umami, color, and warmth. Each recipe is deeply personal, rooted in Asian ingredients and seasonings, but reimagined for the modern American table.

Main Course

Image shows a plate of ground beef and noodle stir fried with broccoli. Served with chopsticks on the side.

Asian ground beef noodles with broccoli

Side Dishes

A close shot image shows crisp rice grains air fried in an air fryer basket with chicken and vegetables.

Air fryer chicken fried rice

Side Dishes

A side shot image shows buttery soft eggplants stir fried with tofu puffs with basil, chili, and garlic sauce.

Eggplant tofu with garlic basil sauce

Main Course

A close shot image shows a bowl of crisp rice with spicy canned tuna and spicy bang bang sauce drizzled over.

Spicy tuna bowl

Main Course

An overhead image shows a plate of sweet corn kernels sauteed with chicken and served with rice on a plate.

Stir fry corn with chicken (玉米雞丁)

Main Course

A side close shot shows Braised Taiwanese minced pork rice bowl.

Taiwanese braised minced pork and rice (rou zao fan)

Side Dishes

Image shows Thai basil eggplant coated with sweet basil sauce, served with rice in a blue white color bowl.

Thai basil eggplant

Appetizers

Feature image shows tofu puffs with golden brown color outside and fluffy inside, served in a bamboo basket with dipping sauce and lettuce greens on the side.

Tofu puffs

Appetizers

Feature image shows a plate of crispy dumplings made with rice paper wrappers with garlic chive filling inside.

Rice paper chive dumplings

Main Course

An overhead close shot image shows a bowl of delicious ground pork stir fry with miso sauce and crisp lettuce served over rice.

Miso ground pork stir fry with lettuce

Drinks

Feature image shows 2 glasses of Strawberry lemonade vodka served with fresh strawberry, lemon and mint leaves.

Strawberry lemonade vodka

Desserts

Feature image shows delicious strawberry compote served chilled in a glass jar that's spoonable.

Strawberry Compote (stovetop, Instant Pot)

Salads

Feature image shows napa cabbage slaw served in a wood plate and tossed with dressing.

Napa cabbage slaw

Dressings

Feature image shows a bowl of creamy miso ginger dressing in a blue white color bowl.

Miso ginger dressing

Side Dishes

A close shot shows blanched yu choy stacked onto a serving plate and covered with minced garlic with garlic sauce.

Yu choy with garlic sauce

Main Course

A close overhead shot shows ground beef stir fried to perfectly browned with cabbage and shiitake and served with rice in a red bowl.

Chinese ground beef and cabbage stir fry

Main Course

A close shot shows bang bang chicken skewers brushed with bang bang sauce and served with salad on the side.

Bang bang chicken skewers

Main Course

A close shot shows juicy shrimp stir fried with cashew, ginger, garlic, scallions with shacha sauce and served on a white plate.

Sha cha shrimp

Salads

Image shows Thai beef larb cooked to perfectly seasoned with loads of herbs and lime juice. Served on a big red color plate with sticky rice.

Beef larb (Laab Neua)

Side Dishes

Feature image shows sticky rice made in a microwave.

Microwave sticky rice

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