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Gourmet Traveller’s most popular recipes of the year

What you clicked, and what you cooked, throughout the year.
Gourmet Traveller's most popular recipes for 2023

Flour and Stone's Lemon Dream cake

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Our most popular recipes of 2024 are here to recap a tasty year of home cooking. It was a year of classics, with GT readers keeping our recipes for crowd-favourites such as eggplant parmigiana, fragrant stir-fries and go-to European dishes on high rotation.

The desserts that wouldn’t quit included Flour and Stone’s Lemon Dream cake, Persian love cakes, reimagined Portuguese tarts and Black Star Pastry’s world-famous strawberry and watermelon cake.

During the warmer months, perennial favourites such as Eton mess, chicken souvlaki and Dan Hong’s towering crisp eggplant dish were a hit. While winter was a time for warmth and comfort, like those nostalgia-inducing lemon delicious puddings, curries and Bourke Street Bakery’s meat pie. Plus, those classic soups can never be beaten, with our ham hock soup ranking high on the list yet again. But it was our ever-impressive Massaman curry recipe that was the most clicked and cooked dish this year, which is one to bookmark for when the weather starts to dip come autumn next year.

Ready? It’s time to give these popular recipes an encore.

Most popular recipes of 2024

Best winter recipes: Beef and potato Massaman curry
Beef and potato Massaman curry (Credits: William Meppem)

Beef and potato Massaman curry

Have a few hours up your sleeve? There are worse ways to spend them than cooking a big pot of this curry.
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Eggplant parmigiana
(Credits: William Meppem)

Eggplant parmigiana

There’s a little labour involved in frying the eggplant slices before layering them, but the result is worth it.
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Ham hock soup
(Credits: Mark Roper)

Ham hock soup

The comfort bowl you need when the temperature starts to dip.
A plate of barbecued chicken thighs on a mint green background.
(Credits: Chris Court )

Hellenika’s chicken souvlaki

You’ve never had chicken souvlaki this good. This recipe, courtesy of Brisbane’s Hellenika, is sure to become your new go-to.
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Crisp eggplant with fish-fragrant sauce
Crisp eggplant with fish-fragrant sauce (Credits: Jason Loucas)

Dan Hong’s crisp eggplant with fish-fragrant sauce

Fish-fragrant sauce doesn’t actually have any fish in it, but its sweet, sour and spicy elements are traditionally used to cook Sichuan fish dishes and give this dish its name.
Pea and ham soup
Pea and ham soup (Credits: William Meppem)

Pea and ham soup

The appeal of this dish with humble origins is nothing new – and with these robust flavours, it’s little wonder.
Eton Mess
Eton mess (Credits: William Meppem)

Eton mess

Whether its creation was a happy accident or divine design, this thoroughly English dessert is heaven in a bowl.
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Best hot cross buns recipe - Seven hot cross buns with glazed tops and sticky fruit filling.
Some of the best hot cross buns to make this Easter – including a recipe for hot cross bun cannoli. (Credits: Will Horner)

What does it take to make the best hot cross buns?

We tested three hot cross bun versions from three cookbooks, and combined them to create the best hot cross buns recipe of all time.
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Classic bread and butter pudding, served with a cup of tea for traditional British comfort.
Bread and butter pudding (Credits: Teny Aghamalian)

Our best bread and butter pudding recipe

Just what you need on a cold winter’s night, a bowl of luscious bread and butter pudding. Make sure to leave room for seconds.
Stir-fried flat rice noodles
Char kway teow (Credits: Alicia Taylor)

Tony Tan’s char kway teow

Char kway teow is a perennial Malaysian favourite for a reason. Tony Tan shows us how it’s done.
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Beef rendang
Beef rendang (Credits: John Paul Urizar)

How to make beef rendang

When it comes to making the ever-popular rendang, patience is indeed a virtue. Persevere and you’ll be richly rewarded with a dish of delicious complexity.
Boeuf Bourguignon
Boeuf Bourguignon (Credits: Ben Dearnley)

Boeuf Bourguignon

The recipe for the traditional braise of Burgundy may have changed slightly, but one ingredient remains non-negotiable: a bottle of the region’s red wine.
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Torta Caprese
Torta Caprese (Credits: William Meppem)

Torta Caprese

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for torta Caprese.
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French onion soup
Photo: James Moffat (Credits: James Moffat)

French onion soup

French onion soup is a bistro classic for good reason. For this recipe, we’ve given an already rich soup some extra luxe touches, because you may as well go all in on decadence.

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