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Easy Asian Dinner Recipes
These Asian dinner ideas keep the cooking flow approachable while still giving you bright sauces, rice, noodles, vegetables, and satisfying proteins.
24 recipes in this collection
Filtered by Asian country profiles and Easy difficulty.

Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry
Soft scrambled eggs folded with juicy tomatoes, scallions, and a light savory sauce for a fast rice-friendly meal.

Garlic Fried Rice with Egg
A simple Filipino-style breakfast rice with crisp garlic, day-old rice, scallions, and a sunny egg.

Green Papaya Salad
A crunchy sweet-sour salad with shredded green papaya, tomatoes, green beans, peanuts, lime, and chile.

Kimchi Fried Rice
A fast skillet fried rice with kimchi, gochujang, scallions, sesame, and egg.

Nasi Goreng
Indonesian fried rice with kecap manis, garlic, shallots, egg, chile, and cucumber.

Scallion Oil Noodles
Springy noodles tossed in fragrant scallion oil with soy sauce and a touch of sugar.

Singapore Chili Shrimp
A home-friendly take on chili crab flavors with shrimp, tomato-chile sauce, ginger, garlic, and soft ribbons of egg.

Thai Basil Chicken
A fast skillet version of pad krapow with ground chicken, garlic, chiles, basil, and a salty-sweet sauce.

Chicken Teriyaki Donburi
A glossy chicken rice bowl with quick teriyaki sauce, cucumber, scallions, and sesame.

Banh Mi Bowl
A rice bowl inspired by banh mi with pork, pickled vegetables, cucumber, herbs, and spicy mayo.

Bulgogi Lettuce Bowls
Sweet-savory marinated beef served with rice, crisp lettuce, cucumber, and a quick gochujang sauce.

Kung Pao Chicken
A quick wok-style chicken dinner with tender bites, peanuts, bell pepper, scallions, and a glossy sweet-savory sauce.

Soondubu Jjigae
A bubbling soft tofu stew with kimchi, zucchini, mushrooms, gochugaru, and an egg cracked in at the end.

Vegetable Miso Ramen
A cozy vegetarian ramen with miso broth, noodles, greens, mushrooms, and jammy eggs.

Chana Masala
A tangy chickpea curry with tomato, onion, ginger, garam masala, and cilantro.

Red Lentil Dal
A creamy, pantry-friendly lentil dish simmered with ginger, garlic, turmeric, cumin, tomato, and a warm spiced oil.

Salmon Onigiri
Hand-shaped rice balls filled with flaky salmon and wrapped in crisp nori.

Thai Green Curry
A coconut green curry with chicken, eggplant, bamboo shoots, basil, and fragrant paste.

Tom Kha Gai
A fragrant coconut chicken soup with lemongrass, ginger, mushrooms, lime, and a gentle chile finish.

Lemongrass Chicken Rice Bowl
Juicy lemongrass chicken over rice with quick pickles, cucumber, herbs, and a bright fish sauce dressing.

Mango Sticky Rice
Sweet coconut sticky rice served with ripe mango and toasted sesame.

Chicken Adobo
Tender chicken simmered in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, bay leaves, and pepper until glossy and deeply savory.
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