Fried Recipes

Crispy, chewy, incredibly flaky pan-fried flatbreads packed with the savory aroma of fresh scallions and sesame oil.

A Dim Sum classic often eaten for breakfast. A savory, steamed cake made from daikon radish, rice flour, Chinese sausage, and dried shrimp, sliced and pan-fried to a crisp.

Shanghai's favorite breakfast. Pillowy soft buns filled with juicy pork and hot soup, pan-fried to give them an incredibly crispy, golden bottom.

Light, airy, and deeply golden Chinese fried dough sticks. The quintessential companion to a hot bowl of congee or fresh soy milk.

The ultimate Chinese street food breakfast. A thin, savory crepe coated with egg, sweet bean paste, chili sauce, cilantro, scallions, and a crispy wonton cracker inside.

A highly refreshing, intensely flavorful, tangy, and spicy chilled cumin water. A popular summer thirst quencher and appetizer.

Festive, bright orange spheres made from thousands of microscopic, deep-fried gram flour pearls bound together by sugar syrup.

A spectacular Rajasthani dessert. A disc-shaped, porous, honeycomb-like fried pastry soaked in sugar syrup and topped with creamy Rabdi.

Crispy-edged, soft-centered sweet fried pancakes soaked in a fragrant cardamom-saffron sugar syrup. Often served with Rabdi.

A decadent Mughlai dessert made of ghee-fried bread slices soaked in sugar syrup and smothered in thick, creamy, saffron rabdi.

A fast, comforting, and deeply aromatic pudding made from roasted semolina, ghee, and sugar, flavored with cardamom.

Crispy, neon-orange, deep-fried spirals of fermented batter soaked in a warm, saffron-laced sugar syrup.