Our 10 most popular recipes of August 2022 were mix of new recipes – such as our bang bang chicken salad and Southeast Asian BLT breakfast salad with jammy soft-boiled eggs – as well as recipe compilations, such as our best poached chicken recipes, quick and easy noodle recipes, and great Sunday dinner ideas from our authentic beef Stroganoff to smoked salmon pasta.
August has ended, which means it’s time to review the Grantourismo stats to see what visitors to Grantourismo searched for, read and cooked (or at least saved to cook) and share those with you, so here are our 10 most popular recipes of August 2022 for your cooking pleasure.
As I say every month, I always find it so interesting to see what recipes brought you to our site and what recipes most inspired you, and this month’s stats were especially intriguing. I would love to know how many of you actually cooked these recipes and whether you faced challenges accessing ingredients.
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Most Popular Recipes of August from Poached Chicken Salads to Easy Noodle Recipes
Great Sunday Dinner Ideas from Stroganoff to Salmon Pasta
This recipe collection of great Sunday dinner ideas topped the list of the most popular recipes of August. It includes a handful of my favourite recipes that make for truly great meals, from my authentic beef Stroganoff recipe to a salmon pasta recipe that despite its simplicity feels special.
Easy yet flavourful and a little fancy, the recipes have the makings of a great Sunday dinner. Straightforward, not time-consuming – a few are a cinch to make and come together quickly – they’re reliably great. A couple of highlights…
My smoked salmon pasta recipe makes spaghetti with smoked salmon, dill pickles, capers and fresh dill. It’s a flavour combination I love, as it’s rooted in the food of my heritage and so many memories of precious shared family meals.
You’ll find that flavour combination again and again in my recipes, from this salmon potato salad recipe and these devilled eggs with smoked salmon and caviar to this creamy smoked salmon dip made from scratch and these blini with smoked salmon, dill, gherkin and sour cream.
A round-up of our best Spanish tapas recipes includes more of our favourite recipes for some of the most popular Spanish tapas bar snacks, from recipes for the Spanish meatballs called albondigas and a chorizo and potato croquettes recipe to a classic garlic shrimp recipe.
Great Sunday Dinner Ideas – Stroganoff, Salmon Pasta, Spanish Tapas, Chicken Parma
31 Winter Recipes to Cook in August
This collection of 31 winter recipes to cook in August, which we pulled together for our readers in the southern hemisphere, was another of the most popular recipe posts of August.
Our winter recipe round-up featured a recipe for every day of August, including everything from warming soups and hearty stews to conforming pastas and spicy curries.
We also published a compilation of 31 summer recipes to make in August, the summer edition, aimed at our readers in the sunny northern hemisphere – which included homemade dips for crackers, fresh spring rolls, cold summer soups, and crunchy salads, for starters.
But it was the winter recipe collection that was more popular. It featured everything from my deeply flavoured beef Stroganoff recipe and spaghetti and meatballs smothered in a luscious tomato sauce to a Moroccan lamb tagine with prunes and almonds recipe that we learnt to make in Marrakech and a gently spiced Cambodian chicken curry from Siem Reap.
31 Recipes to Cook in August Winter Edition – Warming Soups, Stews, Curries and Pastas
Best Poached Chicken Breast Recipes
Our best poached chicken breast recipes include recipes for shredded chicken salads, Southeast Asian chicken rice soups and rice porridges, chicken noodle soups, and more. What I love about poaching chicken breasts is you can make a stock from the water that the chicken is poached in, which you can use in the same dish or refrigerate for another day.
This collection of our best poached chicken breast recipes includes some of our best chicken breast recipes and some of our most popular chicken recipes – from chicken soup recipes to chicken salad recipes.
It’s no surprise, as while chicken breast meat might not be as delicious or as succulent as brown chicken meat, it’s healthy, versatile and affordable, and poaching it in aromatics adds lovely subtle flavours.
We typically shred our poached chicken breasts, which keep in the fridge for a few days, and we use the shredded chicken meat in everything from chicken rice porridges and chicken rice soups to shredded chicken salads, tacos and sandwiches.
A tip: always use a meat thermometer to check that the thickest part of the chicken breasts have reached 74°C (165°F).
Best Poached Chicken Breast Recipes from Chicken Salads to Chicken Soups
Bang Bang Chicken Salad Recipe
Our bang bang chicken salad recipe is inspired by the classic Chinese bang bang chicken dish, and while we only shared it yesterday, it quickly became one of our most popular recipes of August. Crisp lettuce, crunchy cucumbers and fresh fragrant coriander transform the dish into a lovely light yet filling salad.
Terence’s bang bang chicken salad recipe is based on one of our all-time favourite Chinese dishes, the classic Sichuan bang bang chicken. A Sichuanese specialty of cold succulent chicken served swimming in a deliciously addictive sauce, made with Chinese sesame paste and a delightfully hot and numbing homemade chilli oil.
We first sampled it at a Sichuan restaurant in Hong Kong many years ago, then in China a week later, where we became addicted to it, but it was in Australia of all places that we fell in love with it and Terence has been making it ever since.
It was while testing other poached chicken breast recipes (see above) that the idea of transforming the delightfully tongue-tingling, spice-laden bang bang chicken into a lighter yet still filling salad came to Terence, and it’s been on repeat for lunch and summer dinners ever since.
A tip: If the chicken breasts are of very uneven thickness, it might pay to wrap them in cling film and flatten them a little using a kitchen mallet.
Bang Bang Chicken Salad Recipe for a Fresh Light Take on the Spicy Sichuan Speciality
Chicken Noodle Salad Recipe with Sesame Dressing
This chicken noodle salad recipe with sesame dressing, pan-roasted peanuts and fresh fragrant coriander makes a cold noodle salad made with buckwheat noodles and shredded poached chicken, doused in a sesame dressing, and textured with crunchy pan-roasted peanuts, sesame seeds and fresh fragrant coriander.
The chicken noodle salad recipe makes my delicious take on what must have been one of the most popular salads of the northern hemisphere summer, and one of our most popular recipes of August on Grantourismo.
Served chilled, this noodle salad is ideal for summer and spring, but it’s also a versatile year-round dish. You can also serve it as a warm salad, which essentially turns it into a noodle dish, when it calls for a runny soft-boiled egg or two.
It’s another dish that’s super easy to make, coming together in half an hour, which will see it getting filed in this collection of noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less.
Chicken Noodle Salad Recipe with Sesame Dressing, Pan Roasted Peanuts and Coriander
31 Summer Recipes to Make in August
Our collection of 31 summer recipes to make in August, the last month of summer, included everything from no-cook dishes and chilled summer soups to crunchy summer salads and fresh Southeast Asian spring rolls.
There were homemade dips to have with crackers, grilled meats and vegan chillies, and lots of recipes with summer corn and tomatoes, and the compilation was another of our most popular recipe posts of August.
I’ve long loved August, the last month of summer in the northern hemisphere. While often stifling, August has always had a festive spirit about it, no matter where you spend it. Everyone is intent on soaking up the last rays of summer, whether it’s on a sandy beach or in a shady park.
For me, eating in August has always meant homemade dips with crunchy crackers, cheese and charcuterie plates, crispy summer salads, cold summer soups, refreshing Southeast Asian spring rolls with dipping sauces. I was so pleased to see our readers enjoyed this round-up.
31 Summer Recipes to Make in August – Tomato Salads, Grilled Corn, Spicy Chillies and Barbecue
Southeast Asian BLT Breakfast Salad Recipe
This Southeast Asian breakfast salad recipe with jammy soft-boiled eggs makes a bacon, lettuce and tomato breakfast salad drizzled in a quintessential Southeast Asian dressing, topped with soft boiled eggs, and sprinkled with fresh fragrant coriander and crispy fried shallots.
My Southeast Asian BLT breakfast salad recipe makes a fantastic shared breakfast, brunch or lunch that’s perfect for sultry summer weekend mornings. It was published as part of our Weekend Eggs series and was another of our most popular recipes of August.
If you enjoyed my more European style breakfast salad recipe – also inspired by the BLT or bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, as well as my late grandfather Ivan’s simple breakfast of a boiled egg, garlic, cucumber, tomato, and pickles – then you’re going to enjoy this. Especially if you’re a fan of Southeast Asian flavours.
Because after 12 years living in Southeast Asia, in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, plus a couple of dozen years on top of that cooking Southeast Asian cuisines with Terence, I can’t help but reach for the fish sauce in the same way I once reached for balsamic vinegar when making a salad.
Southeast Asian BLT Breakfast Salad Recipe with Jammy Soft Boiled Eggs
10 Noodle Recipes Made in 30 Minutes or Less
Our readers loved our recipe round-ups this month and our 10 noodle recipes made in 30 minutes or less for quick and easy mid-week meals was another one of our most popular recipes of August on Grantourismo.
The collection of quick noodle recipes included speedy recipes for everything from Korean instant ramen noodles and ginger scallion noodles in ten minutes to recipes for Thai rad na gai charred rice noodles with chicken and gravy and Cambodian mee katang for Cantonese style noodles in 25 minutes.
Terence and I have been so busy that we’ve each been doing our own thing for dinner most nights, as we’re finishing work at different times, often late, and we’ve both been craving different things. Terence will typically make a healthy salad, while I’ll feel like quick comfort food, which means easy noodles.
If you’re like me, you’ll want to hone in on these 10-15 minute noodle recipes, including this spicy peanut butter noodles recipe, Terence’s Korean instant ramen noodles recipe for jazzing up Nongshim Shin Ramyun, and my best instant ramen noodles recipe plus my (now not so) secret formula to upgrading instant noodles.
10 Noodle Recipes Made in 30 Minutes or Less for Quick and Easy Mid-Week Meals
Lao Shredded Chicken Salad Recipe for Yum Gai Tom
This Lao shredded chicken salad recipe with fragrant herbs, fish sauce and lime juice makes yum gai tom, based on a recipe by the late Phia Sing, head chef of the Royal Palace in Luang Prabang, from the book Traditional Recipes of Laos.
Made with poached chicken breast, crunchy cucumbers and fresh coriander, dill and mint, it’s another light yet filling salad – and another of our most popular recipes of August on Grantourismo.
If you enjoyed our Vietnamese chicken salad recipe, you’re going to love this delicious Lao shredded chicken salad recipe for yum gai tom, based on a recipe from a wonderful Lao cookbook I picked up in Laos many years ago called Traditional Recipes of Laos by Phia Sing, the late head chef of the Royal Palace in Luang Prabang.
It’s one of my favourite poached chicken breast recipes, which are some of our best chicken breast recipes and some of the most popular chicken recipes on Grantourismo, and I’ll be adding it to those collections.
‘Yam gai tom’ translates to ‘boiled chicken salad’, but the original recipe really calls for poaching, as the chicken is just covered in water. However, you make it, it’s a fantastic savoury salad that fab year-round.
Lao Shredded Chicken Salad Recipe with Fragrant Herbs, Fish Sauce and Lime for Yum Gai Tom
Please do let us know if you make any of our 10 most popular recipes of August in the comments below as we’d love to hear how our recipes turn out for you.
