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.
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.
Black Star Pastry’s strawberry and watermelon cake
Dan Hong’s crisp eggplant with fish-fragrant sauce
Bar Alto’s mussels with chilli, garlic and white wine
Roasted cauliflower salad with yoghurt dressing and almonds
Ricotta-polenta cake with lemon-rosemary syrup
Quinoa salad with pomegranate, pumpkin and ashed goat’s cheese
How to master your Christmas ham glaze
Bourke Street Bakery’s guide to making the perfect meat pie
