I’m again and this time it’s with MY favourite recipes from 2024! These are the recipes that I completely couldn’t get sufficient of this previous yr and ones that I’ve come again to time and again as a result of they’re simply THAT good.
So scroll the checklist under… you may discover recipes that you simply personally liked this yr or maybe some new to you recipes that you simply’re planning to place in your must-make checklist so you’ll be able to see what the fuss is all about.
1. Sesame Roasted Greens and Chickpeas with Garlic Tahini Yogurt Sauce
That is a type of recipes that I merely couldn’t cease consuming. The candy and tangy stunning roasted veggies and chickpeas in a sesame ginger sauce paired completely over a tahini yogurt sauce. And let’s not overlook about the entire recent herbs that make this style recent. I scooped it up with pita, however placing it on high of a mattress of jasmine rice or pearl couscous can be a dreamy, wholesome dinner.
2. Really Distinctive Salted Banana Chocolate Chunk Cookies
I used to be extremely stunned that I liked these as a lot as I did. The primary chew drew me in with it’s deep, wealthy, caramelized banana taste. The dough hints of brown butter and cinnamon, and with every chew you get puddles of darkish chocolate with that flaky salt. Severely the most effective bites I’ve had in a very long time.
3. Gradual Cooker Gochujang Rooster Sandwiches
Please don’t skip out on these sandwiches! OMG I liked how spicy and barely candy and are tremendous straightforward to pop within the sluggish cooker for an easy dinner. Belief me once I say that these are one of many best, tastiest dinners that you may serve quite a lot of methods. Strive serving the rooster over rice for a wonderful high-protein meal prep!
4. Scoop It Up Kale Couscous Salad
Top-of-the-line salads I’ve ever had in my life. Severely. It’s one among tangy and zesty flavors due to a phenomenal lemon French dressing and the crunchy, candy pickled purple onions, tangy feta, vibrant inexperienced olives and tons of recent herbs. This is able to be unimaginable served with my sizzling honey salmon from my cookbook. Please make it asap! You gained’t remorse it.
5. Strawberry ‘Almond Croissant’ Puff Pastry Tarts
Are you completely obsessive about almond croissants like me? Do you like something and every thing almond flavored? Then you want to attempt these stunning, straightforward strawberry almond croissant puff pastry tarts. They’re essentially the most good spring brunch (or actually anytime you’re feeling such as you need one thing stunning for brunch!) The puff pastry will get golden and crispy and there’s an scrumptious almond filling plus the crunch of sliced almonds that get fantastically toasted and golden within the oven. Make asap and put together to fall in love!
6. Sheet Pan Herby Lemon Garlic Rooster and Potatoes
A go-to dinner for our household! I completely LOVE how scrumptious and EASY this sheet pan meal is. The tangy lemon dressing and marinade creates tender rooster plus golden, tender potatoes. Serve it throughout that zippy, peppery arugula after which high with feta and plenty of recent herbs. So good, so easy. A must-make dinner!
7. Gradual Cooker Italian Rooster Sandwiches
UTTERLY OBSESSED with this recipe!! I really like making it once I’m entertaining as a result of it’s a recipe that everybody loves and it’s straightforward to throw collectively. For this one, I primarily took the flavors of Italian beef (a Chicago-staple!) and used rooster as a substitute, as a result of frankly, I simply love rooster greater than beef. The rooster comes out tender, there’s a bit warmth from the giardiniera and there’s essentially the most unimaginable tang from pepperoncini. Throw it in a sandwich and name it a day!
8. Grilled Turmeric Lime Rooster Bowls
I really like this recipe as a result of it jogs my memory of rising cucumbers in my backyard. I used to be so proud they grew so stunning and I used to be impressed to make a crunchy cucumber avocado salad, then determined to whip up a candy and savory marinade for some grilled rooster and serve it over spicy, gingery garlic ramen noodles. Really a dinner I couldn’t cease consuming.
9. Peanut Butter Protein Cookie Dough Bites
I really like peanut butter and I really like cookie dough, so alas, this recipe was born out of my love for candy little treats and my ardour for getting in optimum vitamin. This was a recipe I couldn’t cease making. To me, they felt like the right little candy chew once I was in the midst of writing my cookbook and wanted a fast nutritious snack. Belief me once I say you HAVE to make this recipe. My kiddos love this one and so do I!
10. Vanilla Brown Sugar Oatmeal Latte Cookies with Espresso Icing
One other favourite cookie from AK Cookie Week this yr! Oatmeal cookies are at all times going to be on the highest of my checklist however once you add brown butter, darkish brown sugar and espresso powder, it’s going to be a assured winner!! I actually can’t believed how a lot you all liked these!
11. Vivid & Herby Lemongrass Rooster Inexperienced Curry
Enjoyable truth about me: curry is one among my favourite meals. I really like how warming it feels and the nourishing substances and loads of veggies make me blissful. This one has lemongrass, which isn’t essential however does provides a freshness and brightness to the curry. This can be a nice, fast and straightforward recipe for meal prep. Don’t overlook to high this one with TONS of recent herbs and put together to move to flavortown.
12. Spicy Brown Butter Goat Cheese Pasta with Candy Corn & Honey Roasted Butternut Squash
There are just so many unimaginable flavors on this, it’s arduous to not need to make it. The candy squash! The spicy BROWN BUTTER & GOAT CHEESE pasta! The little bites of candy corn! Plus the pickled jalapenos? Really a dream. Do this one with orecchiette pasta subsequent and also you’ll be in love, too.
13. The Most Scrumptious Breakfast Cookies
My 4 yr previous son used to wake me up at 5:30am begging to make these breakfast cookies. I used to be blissful to crawl off the bed and begin baking, as a result of not solely do these cookies deliver a smile to his face, however they’re additionally filled with vitamin due to peanut butter, oats, hemp, chia and flax! SO FREAKING GOOD. We maintain these within the freezer always now and on busy mornings I’ll throw one in my son’s lunchbox, or I’ll munch on these for a fast post-workout refuel.
14. Spicy Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Parmesan & Chili Crisp
I imply the image kinda says all of it, proper? They’re simply so stunning, insanely crunchy, spicy and served with essentially the most scrumptious yogurt sauce for dipping and cooling the brussels down. Excellent served with rooster or salmon. Really only a improbable aspect dish that I’ll be making once more quickly!
15. One Pan Baked Pesto Orzo with Rooster Meatballs
One other household favourite! And that is filled with each protein and tons of veggies! There’s golden brown umami-rich mushrooms within the pesto orzo so as to add a number of taste, and zucchini within the rooster meatballs to assist maintain them moist and tender. I serve with one with a number of purple pepper flakes for the very best one pan dinner.
16. Veggie-Packed Meat Sauce (freezer-friendly, nice for teenagers!)
An enormous pot of this meat sauce was one of the vital repeated meals in my kitchen this previous yr. It began as a option to embody extra vitamin in my child’s diets, however once I realized how flavorful it was and the way a lot they liked it, I’ve made it time and again. I adore it with spaghetti, pappardelle and linguine. Rigatoni or ziti is nice, too!
17. Lemon Pistachio Cake with Pretty Lemon Frosting
This was the 2024 Valentine’s Day cake and it was really a favourite. I examined the recipe 5 or 6 instances simply to verify it was good and I couldn’t be extra pleased with it. The lemon pistachio mixture is such a pleasant shock and the lemon frosting is gentle and addictive. A should make!!
18. Pasta Pomodoro
That is one other repeat dinner in our home. I made this one numerous instances due to all of the little cherry and sungold tomatoes my beautiful backyard produced. I used to be at all times in search of methods to make use of up the buckets of little tomatoes I picked and this straightforward pasta at all times delivered on taste and ease. This one’s nice with grilled shrimp or rooster for a lightweight summer time dinner.
19. Zucchini & Sausage Baked Orzo with Sizzling Honey & Feta
In all probability the most effective one pan meals to make when you want to burn up a ton of veggies! I really like the zucchini, corn and bell pepper combo, plus the sausage, creamy orzo, tangy feta and sizzling honey. Add some recent basil and also you’ve acquired your self a loopy good, loopy nutritious dinner.
20. Curried Chickpea Couscous Salad
Want a fast vegetarian salad you’ll be able to take pleasure in all week lengthy? Then do this curried chickpea couscous. It virtually has each colour of the rainbow and the simplicity of it is without doubt one of the causes it’s so nice. You may make this in about 20 minutes and it stays good in your fridge for days!
21. Espresso Yogurt Chocolate Chip Espresso Cake
Espresso and chocolate is one among my very favourite dessert combos and this cake is every thing I may need for a bit breakfast deal with. The trace of brown butter and maple builds the flavour of the cake much more. Did I point out it has an espresso glaze? Yeah, you gotta make this one ASAP.
22. Sheet Pan Jalapeño Pistachio Rooster Meatball Bowls
If you’d like a high-protein dinner that feels a bit spectacular, then make these! The flavors will shock you and also you’ll love constructing a wholesome bowl with layers of taste. Yum!
23. Salted Tahini Butterscotch Cookie Skillet
All of my favourite dessert flavors in a single GIANT cookie? It’s gonna be a hell sure from me. I really like how the candy butterscotch pairs completely with the earthy tahini. Strive serving this with vanilla bean or a salted caramel ice cream. Finest straightforward dessert ever!!!
24. Candy and Spicy Gochujang Rooster Bowls
I can’t imagine how good these had been. One other straightforward dinner favourite for my husband and I and even my mom in legislation commented on how good this recipe was. The candy and spicy rooster is ideal over rice, in tacos or with pasta (rice noodles or pappardelle is improbable!)
25. Salted Butterscotch Zucchini Espresso Cake
Oh my gosh you guys! This one is simply dreamy! The brown sugar crumble. The candy butterscotch. The moist cinnamon-spiced cake. Please make this and luxuriate in with a cup of espresso. You’ll adore it, I promise.
I had the very best yr and can’t thanks sufficient for being right here and persevering with to assist Formidable Kitchen! I couldn’t do that with out you.