The 10 most popular recipes of 2024
What has the nation been cooking this year? We’ve rounded up the 10 most-visited new recipes on goodfood.com in 2024
As the UK’s number one food brand, we get a unique insight into what the nation likes to eat. We act like a digital barometer of what’s hot and what’s not, as we see trends come and go. In recent years, social media has only accelerated the rate of recipe churn.
There are certain recipes that are top performers year in, year out, with favourites like lemon drizzle cake, chilli con carne and Yorkshire puddings being consistent top performers (reigning supreme even on Christmas Day).
However, we’re always adding to our bank of 17,000+ recipes, and use industry trends, social inspiration, insider info from our expert contacts, and global search trends to dictate which original recipes we create for you. Of the hundreds of recipes we published in 2024, here are the ones that were most-loved by goodfood.com visitors.
The most popular recipes of 2024
10. Chocolate chip muffins
Kicking off our top 10 is a super simple baking recipe. Cakes are the bread and butter of the Good Food archive, and our recipes are always thoroughly tested to avoid kitchen disasters. These beauties take only 15 minutes to prepare, making them an ideal midweek bake.
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9. Slow cooker beef stew & dumplings
A refreshingly everyday recipe comes in at number nine. It might not be the most glamorous meal but it’s guaranteed to satisfy. Appliance recipes are always a huge hit with our audience (as the rest of this list will attest) and slow cookers are the OG. They've provided midweek convenience for cooks for many years, long before the air fryer came along and stole the gadget crown, and will surely continue to do so.
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8. Tuscan chicken
Our team use audience data to create the recipe content we know you want, so when we saw that searches for Tuscan chicken were spiking, we acted accordingly. Despite a rise in plant-based cooking, chicken is a phenomenally popular ingredient with the Good Food community. It's not hard to see why this trattoria-style recipe was such a hit – chicken in a white wine sauce is a timeless classic.
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7. Beef enchiladas
Our mission and core offering as a brand is to provide inspiration to help you eat well everyday, so it’s no surprise that a midweek staple like enchiladas made our top 10. We design our recipes to be easy to follow, no matter what your skill level, and this simple oven-baked meal is super easy to prepare and assemble.
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6. Air fryer boiled eggs
The first entry on the list that's made using the mighty air fryer. The revolutionary gadget has entirely permeated the food scene, with at least 58 per cent of the nation owning one. This recipe is proof of how commonplace they’ve become in how we cook. If, as the old saying goes, you don’t even know how to boil an egg, you now have the thoroughly modern solution – use an air fryer.
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5. Creamy garlic pasta
Like cacio e pepe and puttanesca before it, this creamy garlic pasta is a masterclass in storecupboard simplicity. It elevates basic ingredients into something truly luxurious, with a deeply savoury flavour and silky texture. Using the cooking water in the sauce is the trick to achieving unctuous success.
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4. Air fryer gammon
Gammon has absolutely stormed it on all fronts on goodfood.com and our guide to cooking it is consistently our most popular article. Since the cost of living crisis, we’ve seen this thrifty joint come into its own thanks to its versatility as a roast centrepiece, provider of cold cuts or a midweek dinner (served with mandatory egg and chips). Cooking a gammon joint in an air fryer gives a succulent texture and perfectly burnished crust.
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3. Burnt Basque cheesecake
This Spanish dessert is a social media mainstay thanks to its photogenic presentation. Unlike a traditional British or American cheesecake, it has no biscuit base, and instead is baked in a tin with flour added to the soft cheese mix for structure. The desired effect is a deeply caramelised outer and creamy, light centre. Much like a Spanish tortilla, some people like it softer set than others.
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2. Air fryer roast chicken
Yet another air fryer recipe to make our top 10. The second most popular new recipe of the year was also one of the most simple. The beauty is in how the air fryer cooking mechanism creates juicy meat and extra crispy skin. It requires only a small handful of ingredients and minimal prep, so this top-rated recipe is one for air fryer devotees to save in their My Good Food.
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1. Marry me chicken
The recipe that takes the top spot in 2024 pays testament to the influence social media has on our eating habits. This viral dish – so-called due to its supposed powers of winning people over – is essentially a simple chicken one-pot with a creamy sundried tomato sauce. Despite being a zeitgeist dish, it’s actually quite retro at its heart, which makes sense given nostalgia is a big trend on social media.
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