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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.

easy Asian dinners
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rice and noodles

24 recipes in this collection

Filtered by Asian country profiles and Easy difficulty.

Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry

Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry

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

20 minutesEasy3
Garlic Fried Rice with Egg

Garlic Fried Rice with Egg

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

25 minutesEasy4
Green Papaya Salad

Green Papaya Salad

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

25 minutesEasy4
Kimchi Fried Rice

Kimchi Fried Rice

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

25 minutesEasy3
Nasi Goreng

Nasi Goreng

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

25 minutesEasy3
Scallion Oil Noodles

Scallion Oil Noodles

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

28 minutesEasy3
Singapore Chili Shrimp

Singapore Chili Shrimp

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

30 minutesEasy4
Thai Basil Chicken

Thai Basil Chicken

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

30 minutesEasy4
Yakisoba

Yakisoba

Saucy stir-fried noodles with cabbage, carrots, pork, and a tangy-sweet yakisoba sauce.

30 minutesEasy4
Chicken Teriyaki Donburi

Chicken Teriyaki Donburi

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

33 minutesEasy4
Banh Mi Bowl

Banh Mi Bowl

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

35 minutesEasy4
Bulgogi Lettuce Bowls

Bulgogi Lettuce Bowls

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

35 minutesEasy4
Kung Pao Chicken

Kung Pao Chicken

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

35 minutesEasy4
Soondubu Jjigae

Soondubu Jjigae

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

35 minutesEasy3
Vegetable Miso Ramen

Vegetable Miso Ramen

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

35 minutesEasy2
Chana Masala

Chana Masala

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

40 minutesEasy4
Red Lentil Dal

Red Lentil Dal

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

40 minutesEasy4
Salmon Onigiri

Salmon Onigiri

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

40 minutesEasy6
Thai Green Curry

Thai Green Curry

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

40 minutesEasy4
Tom Kha Gai

Tom Kha Gai

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

40 minutesEasy4
Lemongrass Chicken Rice Bowl

Lemongrass Chicken Rice Bowl

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

43 minutesEasy4
Gado Gado

Gado Gado

A colorful vegetable plate with tofu, eggs, potatoes, greens, and peanut sauce.

45 minutesEasy4
Mango Sticky Rice

Mango Sticky Rice

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

45 minutesEasy4
Chicken Adobo

Chicken Adobo

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

55 minutesEasy4

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