Taiwanese Chicken Recipes

Taiwanese cuisine — Beef noodle soup, scallion pancakes, stinky tofu — bold street food and comfort cooking — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Taiwanese cooks work with chicken, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are frying, simmering, braising and steaming.

The world's most-cooked protein — mild, lean and endlessly adaptable to almost any spice profile or cooking method. In this collection it's most often cooked with soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, fresh ginger, rice wine and fresh thai basil leaves. The dishes here span taiwanese classics ready in as little as 40 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.