Here are the ten most popular new recipes I have published so far in 2024. Some of these made me proud. Most were predictable! 😂
What about for you? Any surprises on this list? 🙂
10 most popular new recipes of 2024 (so far)
Note! This is a top 10 list for recipes I have published in 2024. Not an all-time most popular list!! So don’t be shocked if your all time favourite there. 🙂
10. Lamb Korma Curry
I’m thrilled to see a recipe that’s not a quick weeknight meal making it into the Top 10! It’s definitely List-Worthy. 😅 The korma curry sauce is truly amazing—it’s a flavour you won’t find in a jar, and even at a restaurant, you’d have to know where to go to find one that rivals this!
9. Smoky Roasted Tomato Soup
I was also really happy to see this make The List! I wasn’t sure if it would appeal, thought perhaps it wasn’t exciting enough for you.😅 But what I really like about this soup is that it’s a really great way to make something tasty out of lacklustre tomatoes, which is sadly all too common in grocery stores here in Australia. So imagine how great it is when tomatoes are season!
8. Crispy Oven Baked Quesadillas
Strong performer to make the top 10 list because I only published it last month! This is a really handy recipe because you can make multiple quesadillas at the same time in the oven rather than flipping them one by one on the stove. Who’s got time for that when you’ve got a hoard of hungry teenagers!
7. Sausage Ragu with Pappardelle Pasta
I feel like the word “ragu” always gets your attention. 😂 Though in all seriousness, this one’s pretty special because it gets a massive flavour leg-up by using sausages for the meat, and economical to make too. The richness and depth of flavour in it is really, really good!
6. One-pot Moussaka Beef Rice Pilaf
Hazarding a guess for why this made The List! Let’s see….convenience of a meal in one pot…. plus the name (everybody loves Moussaka!)…plus maybe the photo looks appealing, with the juicy looking tomato stained rice with the shiny balls of chickpeas?
5. My 14 favourite low-calorie dinners
It was early January when I published this, when New Years’ resolutions “to be healthier” were still fresh in everyone’s mind!
4. Tray bake lamb kofta meatballs and vegetables
I love a tray bake that’s a little different, like meatballs and vegetables! Works perfectly with the bonus that all your meatballs remain perfectly round, unlike when pan frying when one side always seems to flatten!
3. Singapore Chicken Vermicelli Noodles
Australia is mad for Singapore noodles! But they are kind of a pain to make – you need a little bit of Char Sui (Chinese BBQ Pork) and freshly peeled prawns. So I made a tonight version using using chicken instead. Instant hit! (I feel this might be happening for my own dinner tonight.)
2. One pot Chicken Risoni with Crispy Salami
Why I think you love it: Because we all love a one pot recipe! Oozy, creamy risotto vibes with a whole lot less work. Also, the crispy salami. It’s worth making this just to experience the crispy salami! #BetterThanBacon
1. Lemon Garlic Salmon Tray Bake
Why I think you love it: Because, everything you need for a meal cooked on one tray! Fast prep. Less washing up. And tasty! Love the lemon garlic flavour on the salmon.
And that rounds off the top 10 most popular recipes of 2024 (so far!). Even though it’s not a recipe, I’m still going to drop in an FAQ, mainly cause it’s a new website design toy and I’m still having fun playing with it. 😂
10 most popular recipes of 2024 FAQ
Because it would be too organised to have published this at around, say, the end of June at the halfway mark for 2024. I can’t think that far ahead when it comes to content I publish on my website! It’s very much in the now, what I’m thinking of right now, what’s happening in my life, what I’m cooking in the kitchen right now!
It does bring me to a topic that’s quite close to my heart. Some people find it hard to work in the “fly by the seat of your pants” style that I’ve adopted for my website. Magazines, for example, are shooting recipes months and months ahead of when they are published.
I can’t do that. Things go stale for me.
I publish what I’m making at the time. Well, more to the point, recipes I finish working on at that time! At any given moment, I usually have multiple recipes on the go, but it’s difficult to predict when I’ll finally be happy with it. Might be version 3 or 30!
While this creates a somewhat chaotic and hectic working style, it also means that recipes I publish are in real time and I think you sense that with the enthusiasm with which I describe the recipes and the stories that accompany them.
Or maybe, that’s just me trying to justify my disorganisation. 😂
It had to be a new recipe that I published during 2024.
Based on the number of page views for that recipe from the publish date through to today, Tuesday 27 August 2024.
It’s an analytical tool called Parse.ly that provides real time and historical data that I use to understand the performance of recipes I publish.
We got it when the old Google Analytics reporting tool was closed down and migrated to GA4. I find GA4 incredibly difficult to use and there’s some information that I can’t get at all to monitor how my website is performing!
So we had to find another solution and found Parse.ly which, as far as we know, is the only tool available that meets our needs and is easy to use, bearing in mind IT and I are not friends!
It’s a service provided by WordPress VIP which is an enterprise level WordPress hosting provider.
But it is a premium service and it comes with a hefty price tag. It hurts. But I can’t live without it!!
I know. I am as unhappy as you are. 😩 For example, I truly believe to my very core that if I had published Cheesymite Scrolls earlier in the year, it would easily be in the top 10. I have faith in Australia! 😃
I actually do monitor the page views of new recipes very closely for the first 48 hours, and that’s the real method by which I track the popularity of a particular recipe on a day to day basis.
There’s no report I can run to capture that exact data accurately for all the new recipes of 2024 to compare like-for-like. But I do know, for example, Pistachio Cake which I published a couple of weeks ago outperformed average with over 100,000 readers in the first 48 hours. However, it’s nowhere near in the top 10 because I only published it recently!
Tell me in the comments below what you thought of The List! Any surprises? Any disappointments? I personally was a little sad that Crispy Salt & Pepper Squid wasn’t on the list, because we worked so hard on that recipe. Hand on heart, between JB, my brother and I, I think we probably made over 30 versions before we cracked the code. And still, to this day, yet to have one as good, even at a restaurant!
Other notable “sad it didn’t make The Cut” mentions include: Chicken Cacciatore (Italian! Stewy! Easy!), Crispy Pork Belly Banh Mi (just missed out, coming in at number 12) and Cheesymite Scrolls (Australia! It’s a travesty.).
And my publisher is probably going to be gutted my new book announcement didn’t make The List.
But don’t worry about my publishers’ or my opinion! The most important one that matters is in the section below. ⬇️ 😂 – Nagi x
Life of Dozer
Dozer is not having a good day.
First, he found out he didn’t make the 2024 top 10, with 13 recipes ahead of his most popular post…..
Then he found out it’s toy washing day.
This is about as bad as Life of Dozer gets these days! 😂 (And I wouldn’t have it any other way ❤️).
