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)