Taiwanese Rice 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 rice, 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, steaming and boiling.

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, neutral oil and dark soy sauce. The dishes here span taiwanese classics ready in as little as 30 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.