The Best Chinese Takeaway Recipes
As our go-to meals when in doubt, we love having Chinese takeaway anytime of the week. In this post, we list the most popular Chinese takeaway dishes that you can actually make at home!
Save money and take control of the quality and contents of your dishes. These recipes will be perfect for a busy weeknight or even for a friend's get together party.
Sweet and Sour Chicken
With its punch flavours combining a perfect mix of flavours, Sweet and Sour Chicken is one of our favourite dishes to order. We love its sticky sauce that hugs each battered and fried chicken pieces.
Most of the time, takeaway shops would scrimp on quality by reducing the amount of chicken meat and increasing the amount of batter. With this recipe, you can adjust the batter quantity as you please and use the right amount of chicken chunks as you wish.
You can also modify the types of vegetables based on your preference. Most takeaway shops would use bell peppers, however broccoli and mushrooms would work well here too!
Chicken Chow Mein
This dish is a favourite for those who love noodles and chicken. It's made with egg-noodles, chunks of chicken and stir-fried vegetables coated in a savoury soy-based sauce.
This dish is actually very easy to make at home and is actually trending on TikTok recently. Once you have prepared all the ingredients, it doesn't take long to cook, which is perfect for busy weeknights.
Beef with Broccoli
For beef and rice lovers, we have our Beef and Broccoli Recipe. It's a combination of tender beef slices with crisp broccoli in a savoury garlic sauce.
Another easy dish to make at home and popular for the kids as well (I loved broccoli as a child) and is a great way to add some vegetables into your diet.
Crispy Lemon Chicken Recipe
The preparation for this dish takes a bit more effort because of the batter and deep frying process, however this can be batch-cooked and then frozen and reheated for some future date.
We love the sticky and sour lemon sauce that come along with crispy battered chicken pieces. Pair them with rice and some steamed vegetables and I am in Chinese takeaway heaven!
Cashew Chicken
Featuring chunks of tender chicken breast tossed in a savoury sauce topped with toasted cashews. This dish is perfect served with rice and usually comes with bell peppers and green onions.
Traditional Cashew Chicken recipes could be quite complex, however we have simplified the ingredients in this recipe to make it more accessible to more people.
General Tso's Chicken Recipe
A total Chinese takeaway classic. This dish combines spicy and sweet sauce with crispy chicken chunks and lots of garlic, ginger and chillies.
This will need a bit of cleaning up after battering and frying the chicken chunks, but the result will surely be worth the effort. For a more crispy batter, be sure to use cornstarch and potato starch instead of just regular flour.
Chicken Fried Rice
A roundup of Chinese takeaway dishes will never be complete without fried rice! Our recipe takes fried rice to the next level and makes it a meal all its own, combining marinated chicken chunks with a mix of vegetables like carrots and sting beans.
This dish is best with day-old rice that is already dry since you will want to be able to coat each piece of rice with the sauce. Definitely avoid using sticky rice for this recipe for the best results.
Kung Pao Chicken
This is one of the more popular dishes in takeaways and is surprisingly easy to make at home. It is a mix of sweet, salty and spicy flavours coating shallow fried chicken mixed with bell peppers.
The use of Szechuan peppercorns brings the distinct spicy and numbing flavour effect to this dish that brings tingles straight to your tongue. Serve with white rice for a hearty dinner that's perfect for a busy weeknight.