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Sesame oil Recipes

31 recipes with sesame oil for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

31 recipes

🇰🇷KoreaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Korean Fried Chicken

The crispiest fried chicken you will ever make — double-fried for a glass-thin shatteringly crispy crust, then glazed in a sticky sweet-spicy gochujang sauce with honey, garlic, and soy sauce. A Korean street food icon that became a global obsession.

40 min320 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Meat Dishes

Sichuan Spicy Chicken

A classic of Chinese cuisine with bold flavor and the signature numbing heat of Sichuan pepper — the mala effect. Velveted chicken stir-fried until crispy, finished in a spicy sauce with dried chili, garlic, and roasted peanuts. Serve immediately with jasmine rice.

35 min320 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Sweet and Sour Pork

A Cantonese classic — crispy cornstarch-coated pork pieces stir-fried with bell pepper, onion, carrot, and optional pineapple in a glossy tangy-sweet sauce of vinegar, ketchup, sugar, and soy sauce. The secret is high heat, small batches, and not overcrowding the wok.

65 min480 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Meat Dishes

Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork)

A jewel of Cantonese cuisine — pork neck marinated overnight in honey, soy sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin, and Chinese five-spice, then roasted until deeply caramelized with charred edges and a lacquered glaze. 'Char' means fork, 'Siu' means roast. Served with rice, noodles, or stuffed into steamed buns.

45 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Beef and Broccoli Stir-Fry

Thinly sliced flank steak velveted in cornstarch, seared at screaming-hot heat, then combined with crisp broccoli in a glossy oyster-soy brown sauce. The most popular Chinese-American stir-fry — ready in 30 minutes and better than takeout if you follow the technique.

30 min390 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Egg Roll in a Bowl

Ground pork with garlic, ginger and shredded cabbage in a soy-sesame sauce — all the filling of a Chinese egg roll, none of the wrapper, done in 20 minutes in one skillet. Low-carb, high protein, better than takeout.

20 min350 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌶️Spicy

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Shrimp Rice Bowls

Garlic butter shrimp glazed with soy sauce over jasmine rice with edamame, avocado and a drizzle of sesame-honey dressing. Shrimp cooks in 3 minutes. If the rice is already done, this is a 10-minute meal. Around 30g of protein per bowl.

20 min420 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Chicken Stir-Fry with Vegetables

Chicken thighs and whatever vegetables you have, cooked over maximum heat in a soy-sesame-ginger sauce. The fastest way to clear the fridge without the result tasting like leftovers. Done in 20 minutes if the prep is ready.

25 min350 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Fried Rice

Day-old cooked rice stir-fried over maximum heat with eggs, vegetables, and soy sauce until every grain is separate, lightly smoky, and coated in sauce. The technique is simple — but two things determine everything: the rice must be cold and dry, and the heat must be as high as your stove allows. Get those right and fried rice is one of the fastest, most satisfying things you can make.

20 min420 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Meat Dishes

Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry

Thin strips of chicken and broccoli florets cooked fast in a hot pan, then coated in a glossy brown sauce built on soy, oyster sauce, ginger, and garlic. Ready in 25 minutes, high in protein.

25 min320 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Egg Fried Noodles

Egg noodles, a hot pan, eggs, soy sauce, and whatever vegetables are in the fridge. This is Chinese weeknight food — fast, loud, done in 20 minutes. The noodles need to be dry before they go in and the pan needs to be properly hot. Get those two things right and the rest follows.

20 min390 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Mushroom, Spring Onion and Chilli Crisp Filo Bake

🇬🇧UKMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Mushroom, Spring Onion and Chilli Crisp Filo Bake

Layers of shattering filo pastry wrapped around a savory mushroom and spring onion filling, every sheet brushed with a mix of melted butter and chilli crisp. The result is somewhere between a Turkish börek and an Asian-inspired bake — deeply golden on top, fragrant with sesame and chilli oil, with the filling still juicy inside. One of those dishes where the technique is simple but the payoff looks and tastes unreasonably good.

55 min295 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy

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garlic soy sauce ginger chicken gochujang beef pork cucumber shrimp cornstarch peanuts cabbage