Chinese Recipes

Sweet soups, slow braises and clay pots from the Chinese home kitchen.

Mapo tofu in a white porcelain bowl with a blue band: soft cubes of tofu glazed in glossy red chili bean sauce with crumbles of beef, red oil at the edges, ground Sichuan pepper and thin slices of green onion on top, beside a bowl of steamed rice and a pair of chopsticks

Chinese

Mapo Tofu: Sichuan Tofu with Beef in Chili Bean Sauce

4 servings · 40 min

Black sesame soup in a pale celadon bowl on a matching saucer, smooth and jet black under a wisp of steam, a white porcelain soup spoon resting beside it, with a small dish of raw black sesame seeds in front and a steel saucepan of more soup behind

Chinese

Black Sesame Soup (Zhi Ma Hu), a Cantonese Sweet Soup

4 servings · 3 hr 35 min