Every year, we take a look back at your favorite recipes to help you find new meals to add to weeknight rotations or baking projects.
In 2023, the most-clicked recipes included weeknight pastas, budget-friendly dinners that last for days, and a good amount of cake.
Scroll on to see what number one makes (it was originally billed as a ‘weird combo’ of ingredients).
It takes just 15 minutes to prepare this delicious and nostalgic pudding by Hetty Lui McKinnon. She combines two classic puddings — sticky date and butterscotch — into one delicious dessert.
This recipe has plenty going for it — it feeds a lot, uses an entire bag of pasta (no awkward amount left over), and is ready in 30 minutes. Hetty Lui McKinnon uses a handful of hardworking ingredients, including feta and a healthy amount of broccoli.
The brief was a delicious vegetarian alternative to a cottage (beef) or shepherd’s (lamb) pie, and Hetty Lui McKinnon delivered. It’s inspired by the flavors and spirit of the beloved North Indian dish aloo gobi matar: a potato, cauliflower and pea curry.
In this 15-minute meal that tastes like a holiday, Julia Busuttil Nishimura cleverly uses prawns in an economical way — the pasta is the hero and the prawns are chopped into bites, helping a little go a long way. The sauce comes together as the pasta cooks, and it’s a dish that could be a weeknight dinner and special enough to share with friends.
Lina Jebeile’s soup is made with a few simple pantry essentials, which are transformed into a delicious soup. It’s a comforting meal Lina makes often for her family, especially during Ramadan.
Enjoy the spice and decadence of a carrot cake without having to make a complicated layered cake. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s loaf version includes dates for a hint of caramel. The cream cheese icing is a must.
Spend five minutes mixing up this quick and nutritious breakfast and enjoy it all week. It’s a flexible recipe that can be made with your preferred milk. Julia Busuttil Nishimura loves to serve it with yoghurt, coconut flakes and fresh berries.
Published in November, this recipe by Heidi Sze became a fast favorite. It’s built-in pantry staples, like tinned tuna and pasta, with a simple sauce made from grated zucchini. Fresh basil and lemon juice bring this dish to life.
There are so many ways to remix Hetty Lui McKinnon’s tin-can bean chilli. Enjoy it as a soup with sour cream and cheese, over tortillas for nachos, or wrapped in burritos. The recipe uses cheap tinned ingredients and makes a large batch to enjoy throughout the week, or freeze for later.
Annabel Crabb has the most popular recipe from 2023, with her chocolate and zucchini cake, which was part of the most recent season of Kitchen Cabinet. She admits the combination sounds weird, but similar to a chocolate beetroot cake, zucchini makes a delicious and moist addition to a dark, rich chocolate cake.
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