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Sesame oil Recipes

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

48 recipes

Korean Spicy Squid Stir-Fry with squid, gochujang and garlic — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Korean Spicy Squid Stir-Fry

A bold Korean stir-fry of tender squid with carrot, bell pepper, and onion in a spicy-sweet gochujang sauce. Fast, fiery, and deeply savory — ready in under 10 minutes once the vegetables are prepped. Serve with rice and kimchi.

35 min240 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Beef Bulgogi with beef, garlic and ginger — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaMedium

Meat Dishes

Beef Bulgogi

Korea's most beloved BBQ dish — paper-thin slices of ribeye marinated in soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, garlic, and ginger, then seared on a blazing hot pan until caramelized at the edges. Sweet, savory, smoky, and intensely flavorful. Serve with rice, lettuce leaves, and kimchi.

25 min280 kcal2 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🥑Keto

Korean Fried Chicken with chicken, cornstarch and garlic — Korea recipe

🇰🇷KoreaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Korean Fried Chicken

Korean fried chicken, or yangnyeom chicken (양념치킨), is chicken fried twice — once to cook it, then again, hotter, to set a thin glassy crust — and tossed in a sticky sauce of gochujang, honey, garlic and soy. The double fry is the whole technique: it drives moisture out of the coating, so the crust stays crisp even under the glaze. In Korea it is the standard late-night takeaway, eaten with pickled radish and cold beer.

40 min320 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Sichuan Spicy Chicken with chicken, peanuts and chili — China recipe

🇨🇳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💪High protein

Sweet and Sour Pork with pork, pineapple and bell pepper — China recipe

🇨🇳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

Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork) with pork, honey and hoisin sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳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 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Beef and Broccoli Stir-Fry with beef, broccoli and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸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

Egg Roll in a Bowl with pork, cabbage and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸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

Shrimp Rice Bowls with shrimp, rice and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸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

Chicken Stir-Fry with Vegetables with chicken, soy sauce and garlic — China recipe

🇨🇳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

Fried Rice with rice, egg and garlic — China recipe

🇨🇳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

Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry with chicken breast, broccoli and soy sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳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

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