Chinese New Year 2014: 12 recipes to celebrate

Recipe: Roasted duck with kumquat sauce.  (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)

You might never miss the meat with this hearty vegetarian dish. Recipe: Vegetarian Hunan-style tofu

Recipe: Beijing-style pork and cabbage dumplings.

A cold chicken preparation adapted from Robert A. Delfs’ “The Good Food of Szechwan” combines the ground aromatic peppercorns with that everyday Asian quartet of ginger, soy sauce, rice vinegar and sesame oil to make an enchantingly fragrant sauce that transmutes a simple poached chicken breast into a tantalizing and memorable delicacy. Recipe: Cold chicken slices with sesame and Sichuan pepper

Recipe: Tofu batons with hot sesame dressing.   (Richard Jung / For The Times)

Recipe: Shrimp and broccoli stir-fry

Recipe: Chicken in black bean garlic sauce.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)