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
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.
How to make Portuguese tarts with burnt honey
Crisp pastry, sunshine-yellow custard and a caramelised top make Portuguese tarts a global hit.
Flour and Stone’s lemon dream cake
Recipe for lemon dream cake by Nadine Ingram from Sydney bakery Flour & Stone.
Eggplant parmigiana
There’s a little labour involved in frying the eggplant slices before layering them, but the result is worth it.
Gerard Yaxley’s Persian love cake
With a kiss of nutmeg.
Ham hock soup
The comfort bowl you need when the temperature starts to dip.
Black Star Pastry’s strawberry and watermelon cake
The iconic cake from Black Star Pastry with layers of dacquoise, watermelon and rose-scented cream.
Ricotta-polenta cake with lemon-rosemary syrup
Enjoy a slice of this fragrant, versatile cake at any time of day. And you can make the whole thing in just over an hour.
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.
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.
Pumpkin ravioli with sage brown butter
A combination that’s a classic for good reason.
Pea and ham soup recipe
The appeal of this classic soup recipe with humble origins is nothing new – and with these robust flavours, it’s little wonder.
Eton mess
Whether its creation was a happy accident or divine design, this thoroughly English dessert is heaven in a bowl.
Vietnamese chilli and lime caramel pork stir-fry
A winning midweek meal to have on rotation.
Ultimate mac and cheese
This is comfort food at its best.
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.
Flour and Stone’s chocolate Manjari cake
The famous signature chocolate Manjari cake by Nadine Ingram from Sydney bakery Flour & Stone.
Fragrant chicken noodle soup with ginger and turmeric
Turmeric, ginger, chilli and broth — this chicken noodle soup is just what the doctor ordered.
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.
Greek lamb meatballs with orzo, tomato-garlic sauce and fried oregano
A quick and easy lamb meatballs recipe primed for weeknight dinners.
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.
Louis Tikaram’s stir-fried snake beans with pork
It’s one of the Stanley chef’s all-time favourite Chinese dishes, for good reason.
Bourke Street Bakery’s guide to making the perfect meat pie
From the filling to the pastry, the founders of the Australian and New York bakery powerhouse show how to make the classic pie, step by step.
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
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.
Flourless chocolate cake with hazelnut and buttermilk
Every great baker needs a great flourless chocolate cake recipe. Here’s the one we swear by.
Okonomiyaki with sticky soy pork belly
The best pancake ever.
Torta Caprese
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for torta Caprese.
Bethany Finn’s lemon delicious pudding
Don’t forget the cream.
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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