If like us you LOVE a curry or a Chinese takeaway as a treat, we 've pulled together a collection of our favourite fakeaway recipes!
Whether you're craving a spicy curry, sticky stir-fry chicken or good ole' fish and chips, we've got some great recipes for you.
Indian Fakeaway Recipes:
Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken Tikka Masala - tender chunks of marinated chargrilled chicken in a creamy mild sauce with garlic, ginger and spices. Kids and adults alike love this dish.
Chicken Madras
A rich, fragrant and relatively hot curry, chicken madras is easy to make at home in one pan. A great Friday night curry!
Chicken Jalfrezi Recipe
Homemade Chicken Jalfrezi in a deliciously thick, spicy sauce. Served with quick and easy pilau rice – all ready in 40 minutes.
Chapati Recipe
A quick and easy recipe for warm, soft, lightly charred chapati. Ready in 40 minutes, I love to make these whilst my curry is bubbling away. The perfect vessel for mopping up that curry sauce.
Slow Cooked Lamb Curry Recipe
Slow cooked lamb curry with a rich and delicately spiced coconut curry sauce. Minimal effort with loads of flavour.
Healthier Slow Cooked Spicy Beef Curry
So tasty, this lighter slow-cooked spicy beef curry is amazing. Less than 500 calories including rice it's Slimming friendly too!
Healthier Slow Cooked Spicy Chicken Rogan Josh
Lighter Slow Cooked Spicy Chicken Rogan Josh, the perfect slimming-friendly curry.
Pilau Rice Recipe
This Indian restaurant style pilau rice, with a mild aromatic flavour, only takes 5 minutes longer to make than regular boiled rice.
Easy Chicken Curry
A quick and simple mild chicken curry with bags of flavour. Ready in 30 minutes, it makes a great mid-week meal. Freezer-friendly too!
Chinese Fakeaway Favourites:
Orange Chicken
My copycat Panda Express Orange Chicken is sticky, sweet and tangy. Succulent chicken pieces with a crispy coating and plenty of that delicious sauce. Ready in 20 minutes too!
Special Fried Rice
Step by steps instructions with lots of tips on making perfect fried rice. From boiling the rice and choosing your wok to preventing sticky rice and getting the temperature right.
Sweet and Sour Chicken
Homemade crispy sweet and sour chicken with a better-than-takeout sauce made from store cupboard ingredients! Ready in 25 minutes.
Oven Baked Asian Ribs with Crispy Onions
How about these Oven Baked Asian Ribs with Crispy Onions for Chinese New Year? Slow cooked in the oven until tender, then brushed with a sticky marinade and finished with crispy onions!
Crispy Sesame Chicken with a Sticky Asian Sauce
Crispy Sesame Chicken with a Sticky Asian Sauce - tastier than that naughty takeaway and super simple to make. Sweet, salty, crispy, sticky and a little bit spicy - it covers all the bases for one of these meals that everyone polishes off. Its a real family favourite!
Sesame Prawn Toast Recipe
Crispy prawn toast is infinitely better when it’s homemade. Top slices of bread with a simple whizzed up prawn mixture, coat in sesame seeds and fry to golden perfection. You can have these ready in less than 20 minutes!
Sticky Chinese Pork Belly
Sticky Chinese Belly Pork - Slow-cooked until meltingly tender and then finished with a sticky chilli glaze.
Kung Pao Chicken
My Copycat Panda Express Kung Pao Chicken is a deliciously spicy stir fry with lots of chunky veggies and chicken, coated in a rich, tasty homemade sauce!
Honey Garlic Chicken
Sticky tender boneless chicken thighs in a garlic, soy and honey sauce. Minimal ingredients, simple to prepare and ready in 20 minutes!
Chicken Fried Rice
A quick recipe for takeaway-style chicken fried rice with loads of flavour! Great for using up leftover cooked chicken!
Other Takeaway Favourites:
Thai Green Chicken Curry
My deliciously rich and aromatic Thai Green Chicken Curry with homemade curry paste. Make it mild or spicy with a vibrant creamy sauce.
Korean Fried Chicken
The best Korean Fried Chicken - Crispy buttermilk fried chicken smothered in a spicy, sticky Korean Gochujang sauce. INSANELY good!
How to cook rice
No rinsing, so soaking, no faffing. This is how to cook rice perfectly every time. The only way I cook rice.
Easy Chicken Satay with Peanut Chilli Sauce
Deliciously moist marinated chicken served with a spicy peanut and coconut sauce.
Pad Thai Recipe
Sweet and savoury Pad Thai with ALL the toppings is way easier than it looks. A fantastic street food dish you can make at home in 30 minutes.
30 minute Malaysian Mee Siam
This hot and spicy Mee Siam is a wonderful, quick meal to get your taste buds tingling. Plus it's ready from scratch in 30 minutes!
Peri Peri Chicken with Homemade Peri Peri Sauce
This Peri Peri Chicken is juicy, spicy and so flavourful! I'll show you how to make Peri Peri sauce from scratch too (better than Nandos!).
Crispy Pork Gyros
My favourite recipe for Crispy Pork Gyros - including how to get that perfect crispy-on-the-outside and tender-on-the-inside meat!
Baked Fish and Chips with Lemon Smashed Peas
They may be baked in the oven, but they’ve still got all the flavour and crunch of the fried version! Easily made gluten free too! A Healthier alternative to traditional British fish and chips.
Sticky AND Crispy Asian Chicken Wings
These Asian Chicken Wings are Sticky AND Crispy. The best party food ever!
Shirley says
Hi Christine
These recipes look fantastic, cant wait to try them.
I have a severe allergy to coconut, do you think that the chicken satay with peanut chilli sauce would work just as well using almond milk.
Kind regards Shirley
Nicky Corbishley says
Hi Shirley, I haven't tried it, but I think almond milk would work - or double/heavy cream.
Christine says
Do you do dhansak curry?
Chris Corbishley says
Hi Christine,
We do have a whole section on Currys https://www.kitchensanctuary.com/category/curries/ but we don't have a dhansak yet. We do have one in the works which will be coming out in August once we have had some more time to test and perfect it 🙂
Thanks
Chris
Lynne Corbett says
Thank you Nicky. We are day 11 in lockdown and meal ideas needed boosting. What is so good is I have all ingredients in my pantry/freezer. My daughter has groceries delivered to us so we have no need to go out. Wishing you and yours well and safe in this terrible time.
Chris Corbishley says
Thanks so much Lynne,
Nicky and I are so glad that you can get hold of ingredients and our site is giving you some recipe inspiration 🙂
Thanks again and stay safe,
Chris & Nicky