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Chorizo Eggs Recipe for Fried Eggs in Chorizo Chilli Oil and Spring Onions. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

10 Most Popular Recipes of July 2021 – The Recipes Our Readers Cooked in July

Our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021 included a mix of light summery dishes that appealed to northern hemisphere readers and hearty dishes that warmed up those of you in the wintery south, from Thai salads full of flavour and texture to a comforting Russian stew and a Vietnamese caramelised fish recipe.

It’s not quite the end of the month, but we’re busy packing here for our third move during a pandemic (we’re experts now unfortunately) so we thought we’d share our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021 a couple of days early, just in case you’re looking for some weekend cooking inspiration.

Once again, our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021 included recipes published over a decade ago for our series The Dish, on the quintessential dishes of places we settled into on our yearlong global grand tour that launched Grantourismo. Namely: tomato bredie, the classic Cape Town stew and French chef Pierre Gagnaire’s cote de boeuf recipe which he shared when we caught up with him in Paris.

Rather than risk these monthly round-ups becoming repetitive, we’re excluding those recipes, so this list of 10 most popular recipes of July 2021 is really a list of 12 most popular recipes, but who’s counting? Before we tell you all about the recipes our readers searched for and hopefully cooked this month, we have a favour to ask.

Grantourismo is reader-funded. If you’ve enjoyed our recipes, please consider supporting Grantourismo by using our links to book accommodation, rent a car or campervan or motorhome, buy travel insurance, or book a tour on Klook or Get Your Guide. You can also shop our Grantourismo store for gifts for foodies, including fun reusable cloth face masks designed with my photography. You could also buy us a coffee, although we won’t buy coffee, we’ll put that donation toward cooking ingredients for recipe testing.

Another option is to contribute to our epic Cambodian cuisine history and cookbook on Patreon or purchase something on Amazon, such as these James Beard award-winning cookbooks, cookbooks by Australian chefs, classic cookbooks for serious cooks, cookbooks for culinary travellers, travel books to inspire wanderlust, gifts for Asian food lovers, picnic lovers and travellers who love photography. Now let me share our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021.

Most Popular Recipes of July 2021 – Here’s What Our Readers Have Been Cooking

Here’s what our readers have been searching for and hopefully cooking this month – our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021.

MOST POPULAR RECIPES OF JULY 2021 ON GRANTOURISMO

Traditional Russian Beef Stew Recipe for Solyanka, a Medieval Dish for Modern Times

Lara’s traditional Russian beef stew recipe for solyanka topped the list of our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021. Based on Lara’s baboushka’s recipe it makes a hearty stew – or heavy soup if you prefer – and it’s one of our favourite beef stew recipes. Lara grew up eating this in the 1970s but this old Russian dish was first mentioned in written form in the 15th century, although it’s thought to be even older. The dish began life as countryside ‘peasant food’ so it was probably a lot thinner than Lara’s grandmother’s rendition. Like the other dishes in our compilation of best stew recipes, it’s a real winter warmer for those of you in the southern hemisphere experiencing a particularly chilly winter. If you enjoy this, do browse Lara’s Russian family recipes.

Traditional Russian Beef Stew Recipe for Solyanka, a Medieval Dish for Modern Times

Easy Vietnamese Clay Pot Caramelised Fish Recipe with Fresh Turmeric, Fragrant Dill and Peanuts

Our Vietnamese caramelised fish recipe with fresh turmeric, fragrant dill and peanuts was another of our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021. It’s called ‘Vietnamese clay pot fish with fresh dill’ at Red Bridge Cooking School in Hoi An in Central Vietnam, where we learnt to make it when we were living there in 2013. If you’re familiar with Vietnamese food and been to Vietnam, you’ll recognise it as a cousin of two Vietnamese specialties, chả cá lã vọng, which you might have tried in Hanoi, and cá kho tộ, which you may have sampled in Saigon. We make the dish with salmon and it’s incredibly delicious and comes together quickly, even though you need to pound a marinade and paste in a mortar and pestle.

Easy Vietnamese Clay Pot Caramelised Fish Recipe with Fresh Turmeric, Fragrant Dill and Peanuts

Savoury French Toast Recipe With Pan-Fried Cherry Tomatoes, Feta Cheese and Fresh Herbs

If you cooked and enjoyed Lara’s Russian French toast recipe for grenki which her baboushka used to make her for school holiday breakfasts as a kid, then you’ll love her savoury French toast recipe, which was another one of our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021. If you haven’t had savoury French toast before – which our British friends call eggy bread – don’t be surprised if you become addicted to this stuff. Lara’s savoury French toast recipe makes a classic French toast – which is essentially fried bread soaked in a beaten egg and milk mixture – that’s flavoured with garlic, onion, sea salt, pepper, and a little chilli, and is pile high with pan-fried cherry tomatoes, feta cheese and fragrant dill. It’s a fabulous weekend breakfast, brunch or lunch dish.

Savoury French Toast Recipe With Pan-Fried Cherry Tomatoes, Feta Cheese and Fresh Herbs

Chorizo Eggs Recipe for Fried Eggs with Chorizo and Chilli Oil and Spring Onions

We only published my chorizo eggs recipe for fried eggs with chorizo chilli oil and spring onions on sourdough toast last week for our Weekend Eggs series, yet it quickly became one of our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021. The recipe makes a filling weekend breakfast or brunch dish that should take you back to Mexico or Spain, depending on where you first sampled chorizo. I’ve been making chorizo and eggs dishes in one form or another since Lara and I first travelled to Mexico back in the Nineties and fell in love with an old-school vintage diner called Café El Popular in Mexico City and their huevos revueltos con chorizo or scrambled eggs with chorizo. And if you haven’t dropped by in a while, we rejuvenated our Weekend Eggs series on quintessential breakfast eggs dishes from around the world, which we first launched with Grantourismo over a decade ago, and there are plenty of new egg recipes there.

Chorizo Eggs Recipe for Fried Eggs with Chorizo and Chilli Oil and Spring Onions

This Japanese Rolled Omelette Recipe Makes Tamagoyaki for Your Tamago Sando

Another recipe that I published for our Weekend Eggs series, this Japanese rolled omelette recipe for tamagoyaki was another of our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021. The recipe will make you a soft, fluffy, rolled omelette that we love to eat between thick slices of Japanese bread to make a tamago sando or Japanese egg sandwich. Japanese rolled omelettes are eaten everywhere in Japan, from izakayas to high-end sushi restaurants, but home-cooked tamagoyaki has a special place in the hearts of Japanese. Like many of you currently staying at home, we have been continuing to cook our way through the pandemic, using food to channel some of our favourite countries and cuisines and it was a delight to reminisce about our time in Tokyo, Japan, while recipe-testing this dish.

This Japanese Rolled Omelette Recipe Makes Tamagoyaki for Your Tamago Sando

Cambodian Vegetarian Num Pang Recipe for a Baguette Filled with Fragrant Herb Frittata

Our Cambodian vegetarian num pang recipe was another of our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021. This recipe will make you a ‘num pang’, a Cambodian baguette sandwich, which in this case is slathered in mayo and filled with a quick pickle of grated daikon and carrot, crunchy salad ingredients, fragrant herbs such as coriander, mint and basil, slices of a delicious herb frittata, and a generous squirt of homemade chilli sauce. You don’t really need a recipe for a sandwich but until num pang is as well-known as banh mi, we’re going to keep sharing Cambodian num pang recipes. You might also like to try our meatball num pang made with these juicy pork balls and our num pang pâté with rustic country-style pâté and cold cuts.

Cambodian Vegetarian Num Pang Recipe for a Baguette Filled with Fragrant Herb Frittata

Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe for Yam Khai Dao, a Deliciously Addictive Crispy Fried Egg Salad

Another one of our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021, this Thai fried egg salad recipe for yam khai dao will make you a deliciously addictive salad of crispy fried eggs with sweet tomatoes, purple shallots, crunchy peanuts, fragrant coriander, Chinese celery, and chillies. It has a salad dressing that’s all at once sweet, sour, tangy, and funky. When you think of egg salads, what probably comes to mind are creamy boiled egg salads with mayonnaise that have the texture of baby food, however, this Thai fried egg salad recipe for yam khai dao makes a salad that’s full of flavour and texture and a kick of chilli-heat that couldn’t be more different to your average egg salad. This is another recipe from our Weekend Eggs series.

Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe for Yam Khai Dao, a Deliciously Addictive Crispy Fried Egg Salad

This Easy Creamy Avocado Smoothie Recipe is a Sip of Southeast Asia At Home

Lara’s easy creamy avocado smoothie recipe was another of our 10 most popular recipe posts of July 2021 and it’s probably the simplest of the lot. The recipe calls for just four ingredients and takes no more than five minutes to make what is an incredibly creamy avocado shake that is both healthy and filling. If you’ve had avocado smoothies in Southeast Asia or South America, you can make this avo shake and travel with your taste-buds for a sip of the tropics at home. Lara had this on repeat here in our Siem Reap kitchen after buying a few kilos of fantastic avocados from farmers in Ratanikiri province in eastern Cambodia – and she still has a few avocado recipes which she’ll share with you next week.

Make This Easy Creamy Avocado Smoothie Recipe for a Sip of Southeast Asia At Home

Cambodian Chicken Rice Porridge Recipe for Borbor Sach Moan, Cambodia’s Congee

This Cambodian chicken rice porridge recipe for borbor sach moan, Cambodian congee, was was another of our 10 most popular recipe posts of July 2021. Called borbor sach moan in Khmer, it’s thought that this chicken rice porridge is a dish of Chinese origin and part of the Cambodian-Chinese culinary heritage rather than a Khmer dish, but no matter its provenance it’s become a comfort food favourite of all Cambodians. Cambodians tuck into big bowls of borbor for breakfast, brunch, lunch, an afternoon snack, dinner (particularly if someone isn’t feeling well), and a late-night supper (i.e. hangover cure). If you like this, you might also enjoy our recipe for an easy Cambodian rice soup with pork meatballs made using leftover rice. We love them both.

Cambodian Chicken Rice Porridge Recipe for Borbor Sach Moan, Cambodia’s Congee

Classic Thai Som Tam Recipe for a Thai Green Papaya Salad Plus Tips for Jazzing Up Your Som Tam

This classic Thai som tam recipe for the popular Thai green papaya salad that you’ll eat on the streets of Thailand was adapted from David Thompson’s Thai Street Food and it was another of our 10 most popular recipe posts of July 2021. The provenance of this spicy Thai salad is northeastern Thailand’s Isaan region, but now you’ll find this street food favourite all over the country and, of course, right across northern Southeast Asia. ‘Isaan’ and ‘Isan’ mean ‘northeast’ in Thai and Khmer, and the region was once part of the Khmer Empire for a while, and is therefore littered with Angkorian temples. We also provide some tips in the post for jazzing up a basic som tam.

Classic Thai Som Tam Recipe for a Thai Green Papaya Salad Plus Tips for Jazzing Up Your Som Tam

If you’ve made any of our 10 most popular recipes of July 2021 please leave a comment below as we’d love to know how they turned out for you.

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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Merry Christmas if you’re celebrating!! 

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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

Merry Christmas!! X

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

Recipe collection here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio):
https://grantourismotravels.com/22-most-popular-egg-recipes-of-2022-from-weekend-eggs/

If you cook the recipe and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either in the comments at the end of the recipe or share a pic with us here.

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

And please do let us know if you’re coming to Siem Reap. We’d love to see you here x

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

If you cook it and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either here or in the comments at the end of the recipe on the site or share a pic with us x 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

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