Chinese Rice Recipes

Chinese cooking balances texture, heat and the harmony of flavours — fast wok work and slow braises drawn from a vast regional repertoire. When Chinese cooks work with rice, they reach for soy sauce, ginger, garlic, spring onion, Shaoxing wine and sesame oil, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, steaming, boiling and frying.

The everyday grain for half the planet — a neutral base that soaks up the flavours around it, from pilafs to fried rice. In this collection it's most often cooked with soy sauce, garlic, scallions, fine sea salt, sesame oil and onion. The dishes here span chinese classics ready in as little as 15 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Peking Duck (北京烤鸭) is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 7,820 ratings.