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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

William Meppem (main)

It was a year of classics, with GT readers keeping our recipes for crowd-favourites such as rice paper rolls, tomato and burrata salad, egg-yolk pasta and boeuf bourguignon on high rotation.

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

Winter was a time for warmth and comfort, like those nostalgia-inducing lemon delicious puddings, curries and beef rendang. Plus, those classic soups can never be beaten, with the pea and ham soup ranking high on the list yet again. But it was the simple, summery Eton mess that took home the crown, which is a fitting way to see out the year.

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

Eton Mess
Photo: William Meppem

Eton mess

Eggplant parmigiana
Photo: William Meppem

Eggplant parmigiana

Pea and ham soup
Photo: William Meppem

Pea and ham soup

Photo: Mark Roper

Ham hock soup

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Strawberry and watermelon cake
Photo: Dieu Tan

Black Star Pastry’s strawberry and watermelon cake

Pumpkin ravioli with sage
Photo: William Meppem

Pumpkin ravioli with sage brown butter

Lemon dream
Photo: William Meppem

Flour and Stone’s lemon dream cake

Photo: Chris Chen

How to make a boiled Christmas pudding

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Bread and butter pudding in a white oval dish on a grey linen tablecloth.
Photo: Teny Aghamalian

GT’s best bread and butter pudding recipe

A whole lemon tart on a black wire rack being dusted with icing sugar.
Photo: Rob Shaw

How to make a lemon tart

Best winter recipes: Beef and potato Massaman curry
Photo: William Meppem

Beef and potato Massaman curry

Persian love cake
Photo: Chris Chen

Persian love cake

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Crisp eggplant with fish-fragrant sauce
Photo: Jason Loucas

Dan Hong’s crisp eggplant with fish-fragrant sauce

In the foreground, a grey dish holding a pile of steamed mussels with chopped tomatoes and basil, on a dark blue tablecloth. In the background, a copper pot holding more of said mussels.
Photo: William Meppem

Bar Alto’s mussels with chilli, garlic and white wine

Ultimate mac and cheese
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Ultimate mac and cheese

Photo: James Moffatt

Vietnamese rice paper rolls

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Roasted cauliflower salad with yoghurt dressing and almonds
Photo: William Meppem

Roasted cauliflower salad with yoghurt dressing and almonds

Photo: Dean Wilmot

How to make porchetta

Over-the-top shot of a round white dish with a baked lemon pudding, with a spoonful taken out of the crust to reveal the molten lemon curd inside.
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Bethany Finn’s lemon delicious pudding

Boeuf Bourguignon
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Boeuf Bourguignon

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Roti canai
Photo: Dean Wilmot

Tony Tan’s guide to making roti canai

Beef rendang
Photo: John Paul Urizar

How to make beef rendang

Photo: William Meppem

Ricotta-polenta cake with lemon-rosemary syrup

Photo: William Meppem

Egg-yolk pasta dough

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Quinoa salad with pomegranate, pumpkin and ashed goat’s cheese
Photo: John Paul Urizar

Quinoa salad with pomegranate, pumpkin and ashed goat’s cheese

Sri Lankan fish curry
Photo: William Meppem

Sri Lankan fish curry

How to master your Christmas ham glaze
Photo: John Paul Urizar

How to master your Christmas ham glaze

Shortcrust pastry
Photo: Ben Dearnley

How to make shortcrust pastry

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Mixed tomato salad with burrata
Photo: Prue Ruscoe

Mixed tomato salad with burrata

Photo: Alicia Taylor

Bourke Street Bakery’s guide to making the perfect meat pie

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