Taiwanese Garlic 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 garlic, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, frying, steaming and boiling.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with soy sauce, scallions, fresh ginger, fine sea salt, steamed rice and neutral oil. The dishes here span taiwanese classics ready in as little as 15 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Lu Rou Fan — Taiwanese Braised Pork Rice is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 5,432 ratings.