Healthy Recipes
Delicious and healthy healthy dishes. Automatically curated for you from our central database!
Barley Water (Yi Mi Shui)
A comforting, slightly milky, nutty-flavored home remedy drink. Made by simmering Job's Tears (Chinese pearl barley) and winter melon, consumed to 'drain dampness' from the body.
Red Date and Longan Tea
A deeply nourishing, naturally sweet, 'warming' herbal tea consumed daily by many Chinese women for blood health and vitality, particularly during winter or postpartum.
Fresh Fruit Green Tea
A vibrant, visually stunning iced tea loaded with chunks of fresh fruit. A staple of modern Chinese boba shops, offering a lighter, healthier, and incredibly refreshing alternative to milk teas.
Chrysanthemum Tea (Ju Hua Cha)
A delicate, floral, incredibly soothing herbal tea made from dried yellow chrysanthemum flowers. Traditionally consumed for its 'cooling' properties to clear internal heat.
Sweet Soy Milk (Dou Jiang)
The indispensable cornerstone of a traditional Chinese breakfast. Freshly ground, rich, creamy soy milk served piping hot and lightly sweetened, perfect for dipping fried dough sticks (Youtiao).
Papaya Snow Fungus Soup
A nourishing, classic 'Tong Sui' (sweet soup) revered for its beauty benefits. Chunks of ripe papaya, gelatinous snow fungus, sweet red dates, and apricot kernels simmered in a light rock sugar syrup.
Black Sesame Soup (Zhi Ma Hu)
An incredibly fragrant, jet-black dessert soup. Toasted black sesame seeds and rice are blended and simmered into a smooth, thick, nutty, and highly nutritious sweet paste.
Tea Eggs (Cha Ye Dan)
The ubiquitous Chinese convenience store and street snack. Hard-boiled eggs with beautifully marbled whites, steeped in a savory, aromatic broth of black tea and whole spices.
Buddha's Delight (Luohan Zhai)
A traditional vegetarian dish traditionally enjoyed by Buddhist monks. A complex, savory stew of tofu, glass noodles, mushrooms, and exotic vegetables braised in a light soy sauce.
Cantonese Steamed Fish with Soy and Ginger
The hallmark of Cantonese seafood. A whole fish steamed to silken perfection, topped with julienned scallions and ginger, and finished with sizzling hot oil and seasoned soy sauce.
Chicken and Mushroom Congee
A deeply nourishing and comforting rice porridge simmered with ginger, tender sliced chicken, and earthy shiitake mushrooms.
Indian Badam Milk (Almond Milk)
A rich, traditional milk beverage flavored with a paste of soaked almonds, saffron, and cardamom. Served hot in winter or cold in summer.