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20+ banquet recipes to celebrate Lunar New Year

Usher in the Year of the Tiger with these share-friendly recipes, many of which are symbols of prosperity and longevity.

22 recipes
This recipe also works well with fish fillets.

Steamed whole snapper with black beans and chilli

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Roasted, caramelised pork.

Roasted caramel pork with honey, ginger and five-spice

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Kylie Kwong's fried rice with plump king prawns.
EASY

Kylie Kwong's fried rice with king prawns

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Pork and chive dumplings with red vinegar sauce.

Pork and chive dumplings with red vinegar sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Toss the salad together for good luck.

Chinese New Year good luck salad (yee sang) recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Kylie Kwong
Red-braised lion's head

Red-braised lion's heads

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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Wontons with prawn and chilli oil.

Prawn wontons with chilli oil and soy sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's sticky barbecued pork.
EASY

Sweet barbecued pork recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Poached chicken

Kylie Kwong's master stock poached chicken

  • 2 hrs +
  • Kylie Kwong
Steamed Murray cod with red chilli oil.

Steamed Murray cod with red chilli oil

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Dragon and phoenix longevity noodles.

Dragon and phoenix longevity noodles

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Meera Freeman Tet recipe.

Thit heo kho (pork cooked in young coconut water)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Meera Freeman
Vietnamese cha gio. Jill Dupleix STREET FOOD recipes for Epicure and Good Living. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Food preparation by Karina Duncan. Styling by Paige Anderson (stylist's surname to be confirmed). Photographed Aug 9, 2012. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Vietnamese cha gio

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Kylie Kwong's spanner crab and ginger dumplings with chilli oil and Sichuan pepper and salt.

Spanner crab and ginger dumplings with Sichuan chilli oil recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Cantonese barbecue pork.
EASY

Char siu (Cantonese barbecue pork)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Tony Tan
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This noodle dish, using traditionally long noodle strands, represents longevity.

Chilled noodles with sesame dressing recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Andrew McConnell
Symbolic steamed snapper.

Steamed whole fish with soy, ginger and spring onion recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
New look roast chook.

Mumma Kwong's roast chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Kylie Kwong
Helen Goh's steamed Chinese New Year cake can be served hot or cold.

Steamed brown sugar and coconut milk cake (Ma Lai Gao)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
These sweet, sticky sesame rice balls often roll around on yum cha trolleys.

Helen Goh's jian dui (crispy sesame balls)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Crispy fried snapper with sweet and sour sauce.
EASY

Crispy fried snapper with sweet and sour sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Lime and pineapple tartlets for Lunar New Year.

Pineapple jam and lime tarts

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
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