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Bean sprouts Recipes

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10 recipes

Gado-Gado with potato, peanuts and cabbage — Indonesia recipe

🇮🇩IndonesiaAdvanced

Salads

Gado-Gado

A warm Indonesian salad of blanched and fresh vegetables, potato, and egg, drizzled with a rich spiced peanut sauce. Indonesia's national dish — gado-gado means 'mix-mix', and you can use whatever vegetables you have on hand.

30 min230 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Curry Laksa with chicken, coconut milk and rice noodles — Malaysia recipe

🇲🇾MalaysiaMedium

Soups

Curry Laksa

Curry laksa is a Malaysian-Singaporean noodle soup: rice noodles sitting in a spiced coconut curry broth, topped with chicken or shrimp, bean sprouts, and half a boiled egg. The coconut milk gives the broth a rounded sweetness, the curry paste brings heat and color, and a squeeze of lime at the table cuts through the richness. Malaysia and Singapore each have dozens of regional versions, from mild to fiery.

30 min960 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Pho Bo (Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup) with beef, rice noodles and ginger — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Soups

Pho Bo (Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup)

Pho bo is a beef noodle soup from northern Vietnam, most closely associated with Hanoi, built around a clear, richly spiced beef broth — bones and spices simmer for hours with charred onion and ginger, while the bowl itself is finished with rice noodles, thin beef, fresh herbs, lime, and chili. Both cooked and raw beef go into the bowl: a well-done cut simmered in the broth, and paper-thin raw slices that turn from red to grey when boiling broth is poured over them.

225 min850 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Egg Fried Noodles with egg noodles, eggs and soy sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Egg Fried Noodles

Egg fried noodles are a Chinese stir-fry of wheat egg noodles with scrambled egg, carrot, bean sprouts and scallions in a soy-based sauce, an everyday home dish. It takes 20 minutes, a pot for the noodles and a wok. The noodles must be well drained and the wok properly hot; get those two right and the rest follows. The eggs set at the side of the wok and are broken into large pieces, and the sauce goes onto the hot wall of the wok so it caramelizes at once.

20 min710 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick

Pad Thai with rice noodles, eggs and bean sprouts — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Pad Thai

Stir-fried rice noodles with egg, bean sprouts, peanuts, and your choice of protein — shrimp, chicken, or tofu — in a sauce built on tamarind, fish sauce, and palm sugar. The three-part balance of sour, salty, and sweet is what makes Pad Thai distinct from any other noodle dish in the world. It is one of Thailand's most iconic street foods, eaten at vendors across Bangkok and virtually every Thai restaurant globally. The sauce is the whole recipe — get the sauce right and the rest is quick. Two rules matter most: cook in small batches so the wok stays hot enough to caramelize the sauce, and never overcook the noodles.

25 min580 kcal2 serves

🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Tofu Pad Thai with rice noodles, tofu and tamarind paste — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Tofu Pad Thai

Flat rice noodles stir-fried with pressed tofu, bean sprouts, and spring onions in a tamarind-fish sauce-palm sugar sauce, finished with crushed peanuts and lime. This is a vegetarian adaptation of the classic Thai street dish — not a compromise version, but a version that works because the sauce, technique, and noodle handling are treated correctly. The tamarind is non-negotiable. The wok needs to be genuinely hot. The tofu needs to be dry before it hits the pan. Get those three things right and the rest follows.

35 min480 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy

Bánh Xèo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crêpes) with rice flour, turmeric and coconut milk — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Bánh Xèo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crêpes)

Golden turmeric crêpes fried until shatteringly crisp, filled with pork belly, shrimp, mung bean, and bean sprouts — then folded and eaten wrapped in lettuce with mint and cilantro, dipped in nước chấm. The name means 'sizzling cake': the xèo is the sound the rice flour batter makes the instant it hits the smoking-hot oil. Without that sound, the pan is not hot enough. Getting the crêpe genuinely crisp rather than soft and chewy requires three things: a thin batter, very hot oil, and patience — the crêpe needs 4 to 5 minutes undisturbed before it is ready to fold.

50 min380 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Canh Chua (Vietnamese Sour Soup) with catfish steaks or firm white fish, tamarind concentrate and pineapple — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Soups

Canh Chua (Vietnamese Sour Soup)

A southern Vietnamese sour soup from the Mekong Delta: a tamarind-based broth balanced with pineapple sweetness and fish sauce umami, filled with fish steaks or shrimp, tomatoes, okra, and bean sprouts, finished with crispy fried garlic and a crown of fresh herbs. The soup's defining quality is the precise calibration of four tastes — sour (tamarind), sweet (pineapple), salty (fish sauce), and savoury (the fish) — in a broth that is light but deeply flavoured. Catfish is traditional; salmon, snapper, or tilapia all work.

40 min300 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Bibimbap (Korean Mixed Rice Bowl) with short grain white rice, beef and gochujang — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Bibimbap (Korean Mixed Rice Bowl)

Korea's most celebrated rice dish: a bowl of short-grain rice topped with individually seasoned and cooked vegetables (namul), thinly sliced marinated beef, a sunny-side-up egg, and gochujang sauce — then mixed together at the table before eating. The name says it exactly: bibim means 'mixing', bap means 'cooked rice'. Each vegetable component is prepared separately to preserve its own color, texture, and flavor. The dolsot version (stone bowl bibimbap) adds one more element: the rice touching the bowl's searing hot walls forms nurungji — a golden crispy crust at the bottom. The best-known regional version comes from Jeonju, in the south-west of South Korea, where it is made with soybean sprouts and often topped with raw beef.

60 min810 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Banh Cuon (Vietnamese Steamed Rice Rolls) with rice flour, tapioca starch and ground pork — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Breakfast and Brunch

Banh Cuon (Vietnamese Steamed Rice Rolls)

Banh cuon are the silkiest thing in Vietnamese cooking — sheets of rice batter steamed paper-thin, so soft they're almost translucent, wrapped around minced pork and wood ear mushrooms. A northern Vietnamese breakfast staple, they're piled with fried shallots, fresh herbs, bean sprouts, and slices of cha lua, then dipped in nuoc cham, the sweet-sour-salty fish sauce dressing. The tapioca starch in the batter is what gives the wrappers their gentle chew.

75 min430 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free

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rice noodles fish sauce peanuts eggs coconut milk beef rice flour potato chicken ginger star anise soy sauce