3 recipes using potatoes — Dim sum, Peking duck, kung pao chicken and the world's richest culinary heritage.
These 3 chinese potatoes recipes are ready in about 57 minutes on average, with 506–620 kcal per serving, and 0% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
Chinese cooking balances texture, heat and the harmony of flavours — fast wok work and slow braises drawn from a vast regional repertoire. When Chinese cooks work with potatoes, they reach for soy sauce, ginger, garlic, spring onion, Shaoxing wine and sesame oil, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, steaming, braising and caramelising.
The comforting carbohydrate that roasts, mashes, fries and bakes its way into cuisines worldwide. In this collection it's most often cooked with onion, garlic, soy sauce, fine sea salt, steamed rice and scallions. The dishes here span chinese classics ready in as little as 51 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Fujian Smoky Tomato Traybake is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.5★ from 5,456 ratings.
Fujian Smoky Tomato Traybake turns chinese pantry flavors into a complete traybake with sweet potatoes, soy sauce, ginger, garlic and Shaoxing wine, and a fresh scallions finish.
Chinese Homestyle Smoky Tomato Traybake brings chinese flavor to a practical traybake built with sweet potatoes, soy sauce, ginger, garlic and Shaoxing wine, and a fresh scallions finish.
Chicken braised with potato and peppers in a cumin-spiced sauce, served over wide hand-pulled noodles, a hearty Xinjiang specialty.
Match the type to the dish: floury/starchy potatoes (Maris Piper, russet) for fluffy mash and crisp roasts; waxy ones for salads and gratins that need to hold their shape. Avoid green or sprouting tubers.
Store cool and dark, never in the fridge. Parboiling then roughing up the edges gives the crunchiest roast potatoes; soaking cut chips removes surface starch for crisper frying.
A filling source of potassium, vitamin C and resistant starch — most of the fibre and nutrients sit just under the skin.
Most of these 3 Chinese potatoes recipes are ready in around 57 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Fujian Smoky Tomato Traybake, takes about 51 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 65 minutes.
Across this collection they range from about 506 to 620 kcal per serving, averaging 546 kcal — Fujian Smoky Tomato Traybake is the lightest option at 506 kcal.
Fujian Smoky Tomato Traybake is a great place to start — it's rated hard and comes together in about 51 minutes. 0% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
In these recipes, potatoes is most often paired with onion, garlic, soy sauce, fine sea salt, steamed rice and scallions. Chinese kitchens also lean on soy sauce, ginger, garlic, spring onion, Shaoxing wine and sesame oil.
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