These are wok dishes where technique beats the shopping list: a properly hot pan, dry ingredients, and everything prepped before you start.
All 4 recipes
Chinese
Egg Fried Rice
The benchmark of any home wok cook. Four everyday ingredients, cooked hot and fast, where technique matters far more than the shopping list.
Chinese
Beef and Broccoli
Takeout-style beef that stays genuinely tender, thanks to a cornstarch velveting step that takes two extra minutes and changes everything.
Chinese
Kung Pao Chicken
Sichuan chicken with peanuts, dried chillies and the numbing tingle of Sichuan pepper. Sharp, sweet and hot at once, and quick once everything is chopped.
Chinese
Beef Chow Fun
Cantonese wide rice noodles seared with beef and bean sprouts. The whole dish lives or dies on getting the pan hot enough to char the noodles without breaking them.