These are the best easy Christmas Side Dishes for a crowd: these easy Asian sides ideas are ideal for potluck lunch or for an Asian dinner party menu. The list includes yummy potato recipes, cold dishes for the holidays, vegetables, make ahead, and no oven recipes.
Veggie Sides
Gochujang Aubergine (Oven Roasted)
Gochujang Aubergine (Baked)
This Easy Gochujang Aubergine is a tasty Asian aubergine recipe baked in the oven. A low carb Korean aubergine recipe that is full of flavor and super delicious as a side with rice!
Click here for the Korean aubergine side dish.
Recipe
If you're looking specifically for Chinese vegetarian recipes, click here.
Easy Spicy Chinese Eggplant Recipe (Vegan)
This Vegan Easy Spicy Chinese Eggplant Recipe is a delicious and easy way to use up your eggplant crop! A healthier version that the one you get Chinese restaurants, the sweet-and-salty savory sauce is full of umami and ever so good with just a bowl of white rice! (I use Doubanjiang as a base, but also show you what to do if you don't have it.)
Click here for the vegetarian Chinese recipe.
Make Ahead Potato Salad
One of the best Asian potato side dishes, I've never met anyone who didn't like Korean potato salad!
Korean Mashed Potato Salad with Egg
This easy Korean mashed potato salad with egg and apple is soft, savory with hints of sweetness, and so creamy and delicious, this homemade Korean side dish (banchan) is a staple in our weeknight dinner rotation. It's the perfect simple Asian side dish for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or a normal family dinner. (Corn and cucumber optional)
Click here for the Asian potato side dish.
Teriyaki Mushrooms (Stovetop)
Teriyaki Recipes are always a crowd pleaser, so click here for more easy teriyaki ideas.
Easy Teriyaki Mushrooms (10 Minutes)
These easy Teriyaki Mushrooms are coated in a sweet and savory sauce. On the dinner table in 10 minutes and perfect with a bowl of white rice!
Click here for the stir fried Japanese mushrooms.
Sautéed Mushrooms
Quick Eryngii Mushrooms (3-ingredients)
A 25-minute, easy to make and delicious eryngii mushroom recipe. These have a nice meaty texture which make them great meat substitutes for vegan meals.
Click here for the butter soy mushrooms.
Butternut Squash (Oven Baked)
Roasted Gochujang Butternut Squash recipe
This easy 5-ingredient Gochujang Butternut Squash recipe is 1 of my favorite savory roast butternut squash oven half recipes. Bursting with flavor, it's a sweet and spicy Korean squash side dish (banchan) perfect for everything from Christmas or Thanksgiving to family dinner. (The original recipe involved cutting the squash into fries, but who has time for that!? I updated it to using butternut halves but the original fried recipe is still in the notes if you want it.) (No added sugar.)
Click here for the Korean squash recipe.
Bread Rolls
Japanese Cheese Balls
Cheese Mochi Bread
This delicious Cheese Mochi Bread Recipe is crisp on the outside and soft and oozy on the inside! It's also a super easy recipe: you just mix everything and bake. Plus no sugar is used so you don't have to feel guilty about snacking! (Baked) (Air Fried)
Click here for the Asian cheese balls.
Pandan Bread Rolls
Spiral Pandan Mantou (Steamed Chinese Buns)
Click here for the easy mantou recipe.
Matcha Rolls
Easy Matcha Buns (1-rise Mantou)
An easy matcha bun (Chinese mantou bao) recipe which only requires 1 proof (1 rise), along with a mantou FAQ section on how to use a metal steamer (instead of the traditional bamboo steamer) and why your naturally vegan matcha buns aren't smooth.
Click here for the green tea bread recipe.
Meatballs
Pork Balls
Asian Pork Meatballs
This delicious Asian Pork Meatballs recipe makes it so easy to whip up a weekday dinner. The meatballs are so versatile, you can pan-fry them, cook them in soup, or add them to a tomato pasta sauce!
Click here for the Chinese meatballs recipe.
Japanese Meatballs
Teriyaki Meatballs 照り焼き豆腐ハンバーグ
This Easy Teriyaki Meatballs recipe 照り焼き豆腐ハンバーグ is a popular Japanese side dish. The juicy and fluffy chicken meatballs coated in the umamilicious savory sauce will taste just as good-or even better- than what you get at your favorite Japanese restaurant! (No breadcrumbs used.)
Click here for the Japanese chicken meatballs.
Carbs
Turmeric Rice (Rice Cooker Recipe)
Easy Turmeric Rice (One Pot, Rice Cooker)
This delicious and easy Turmeric Rice is a one-pot recipe that is made in the rice cooker. It has a tinge of sweetness from the raisins, crunch from the cashews and a gorgeous golden color from the turmeric! Plus all the main ingredients are from the pantry!
Click here for the golden rice recipe.
Thai Noodle Salad
Thai Vermicelli Noodle Salad with Abalone
Tangy, sweet, spicy, and savory, this light Thai Vermicelli with Abalone Salad is a great make-ahead recipe for your Chinese New Year 2023 celebration dinner. It can even be a no-cook recipe, and is the perfect dish for beginner home chefs!
Click here for the make ahead Thai side dish.
Singapore Chicken Rice (Rice Cooker Recipe)
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Hainanese Chicken Rice (Rice Cooker)
A super easy recipe for a fragrant and delicious Singapore Chicken Rice, made in the Rice Cooker. Made from easy-to-find ingredients (I tested without pandan leaves, but also show you how to use pandan leaves if you can get them.)
Click here for the Singaporean recipe.
Pumpkin Rice (Rice Cooker Recipe)
Chinese Pumpkin Rice
This Chinese Pumpkin rice is a super easy and flavorful rice cooker recipe: the soft pumpkin cubes melt in your mouth, contrasting with the firm bite of the white rice grains. Moreover, it only takes 10 minutes to prepare and the rest of the work is up to your rice cooker!
Click here for the rice cooker recipe.
Claypot Rice (Rice Cooker Recipe)
A popular Hong Kong street food that your family will love!
Chinese Claypot Rice (Rice Cooker)
This easy Chinese Claypot Rice is a restaurant quality Hong Kong dish made in a Rice Cooker with Chinese mushrooms and Chinese sausage- better than takeout! (For lazy days when you want to cook last-minute, I've included a no chicken version.)
Click here for the Cantonese street food recipe.
Cilantro Rice (Rice Cooker Recipe)
EASY Cilantro Lime Rice (Rice Cooker)
Click here for the cilantro rice recipe.
Kimchi Fried Rice
One of my favorite ways to use gochujang and leftover rice, this is a quintessential Korean side dish for anyone interested in Korean food.
Kimchi Bokkeumbap (Fried Rice)
Kimchi Bokkeumbap, or Korean fried rice with kimchi, is so easy and delicious, it's often whipped up as a hangover meal in a Korean household and can be made perfectly the first time. Plus, it's done in 15 minutes if you have leftover rice around!
Click here for the Korean fried rice recipe.
Tuna Fried Rice
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EASY Canned Tuna Fried rice (30 min)
This easy Canned Tuna Fried Rice recipe is simple, nutritious, and delicious. Done in 30 minutes, it's a great pantry meal for a quick weeknight dinner. (I also show you how to make it spicy, or non-spicy.)
Click here for the canned tuna recipe.
Shrimp Fried Rice
For more easy ways to use Thai basil, such as in yummy Pad Kra Pow Thai Basil Pork stir fry, click here.
Thai Basil Fried Rice with Shrimp (Khao Pad Goong)
This Thai Basil Fried Rice with Shrimp (Khao Pad Goong) is quick easy and delicious: it's on the table in under 30 minutes if you have leftover rice. Plus making it at home means you can save money and custmise it to your desired spice level!
Click here for the spicy Thai fried rice.
Spicy Vegetarian Fried Rice
Thai Basil Fried Rice (Vegetarian) (20 min)
This Vegan/ Vegetarian Thai Basil Fried Rice is a deliciously easy dish on the dinner table in under 20 minutes. It's the ultimate Asian comfort food: sweet, salty, savory, and budget-friendly! (Not including rice cooking time, if not using leftover rice.)
Click here for the vegetarian fried rice.
Any questions about this list of unique sides for a XMAS eve dinner party? Let me know in the comments!
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