Chinese Vegetarian Recipes

A vegetarian dish that is traditionally served on New Year's Day.

This recipe is made with dried mushrooms, dried fungus and water chestnuts.

This simple stir-fry, made with a hoisin-based sauce, comes from About's Guide to Vegetarian Cuisine. Though the recipe calls for seitan, you can substitute medium-firm or firm tofu.

My most popular vegetarian recipe, made with egg noodles, bamboo shoots and water chestnuts.

A flavorful stew made with tofu puffs and vegetables.

Deep-fried tofu served with an Asian dip.

The Chinese believe eight is a lucky number - what can be luckier than this healthy vegetarian dish filled with eight treasures.

A colorful vegetarian dish made with three types of fungus, dried mushrooms and lily flowers.

A recipe for Vegetarian Ham, a Chinese appetizer made with bean curd sheets.

In this Chinese dish potato based "crab claws" are dipped in batter and deep-fried.

A vegetarian dish made with chinese mushrooms, bamboo shoots, carrots and pak choi.

Bean curd and seaweed are shaped to resemble oysters in this tasty vegetarian recipe.

Vegetarian Meatballs - Beef flavored soy crumbles make a convenient substitute for ground beef in this party appetizer recipe from the Soyfoods.com web site.

Chinese garlic chives add flavor to this potsticker recipe made with mashed tofu.

Wontons wrappers are stuffed with mashed tofu and and Asian seasonings, deep-fried and served with a sweet and spicy hoisin sauce.

A quick and easy dish where bean curd sheets are boiled in seasoned water and fried with roasted seaweed.

As these recipes from my recipe file illustrate, Chinese vegetarian cooking relies on everything from tofu to seaweed as a handy protein source.