Our 10 most popular recipes of March 2023 included a combination of new recipes, such as our Southern Italian pasta and potato recipe and my old fashioned chicken and lentil soup recipe; old recipes, such as our authentic beef Stroganoff recipe and Cambodian fish amok recipe; along with recipe collections, such as our best canned corn recipes.
As regular visitors to Grantourismo know, I love this time of the month when I get to sit down and review our stats to see what you searched for on the site and the recipes where you spent most of your time, which we hope were recipes you cooked, or at least bookmarked to cook.
Last year I excluded a lot of our decade-old recipes that kept landing on these lists time and time again, such as Terence’s heavenly côte de bœuf recipe, which chef Pierre Gagnaire shared with us when we met up with him in Paris in 2010, and Terence’s rabo de toro oxtail stew from Jerez, both from that year.
But those older recipes – created for Terence’s series called The Dish, for which he cooked the quintessential dishes of the places we settled into for two weeks at a time on the 2010 yearlong global grand tour that launched Grantourismo – have proven to be some of the most popular recipes on the site, so we can’t ignore them right now.
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Now let me share our 10 most popular recipes of March 2023.
Most Popular Recipes of March 2023 – The Recipes Our Readers Cooked this Month
These are the 10 most popular recipes of March 2023 on Grantourismo – the recipes our readers searched for, spent time on, and (hopefully!) cooked this month.
Authentic Beef Stroganoff Recipe for a Retro Classic
My authentic beef Stroganoff recipe topped our list of the 10 most popular recipes of March 2023. Interestingly, it was #3 of our 10 most popular recipes of April 2023. Neither are surprising, as it’s long been one of the most popular recipes on Grantourismo.
Best known as a retro classic of the 1970s, beef Stroganoff is an old aristocratic Russian dish that is rich in history. Democratised and popularised in the cafeterias of the Soviet Union, beef Stroganoff travelled the world with Russian émigrés, exiles and World War II refugees, including my Russian grandfather and Ukrainian grandmother.
One of my best Stroganoff recipes – I also have recipes for chicken Stroganoff, mushroom Stroganoff, meatball Stroganoff and pork Stroganoff – beef Stroganoff is fantastic with traditional Stroganoff sides such as crispy shoestring fries, mashed potatoes or buckwheat kasha, and a crisp garden salad, homemade dill pickles and sour cream.
Dishes are rarely eaten alone when a Russian-Ukrainian family gathers. For our Sunday meals and holiday feasts, such as Orthodox Easter, baboushka would prepare a whole spread of dishes, such as borscht, piroshki, Russian pelmeni and Ukrainian vareniki, stuffed cabbage rolls, a beetroot potato salad, and chicken kotleti.
Authentic Russian Beef Stroganoff Recipe for a Retro Classic from a Saint Petersburg Palace Kitchen
Traditional Cambodian Fish Amok Recipe
Our traditional Cambodian fish amok recipe was next on our list of the 10 most popular recipes of March 2023, which makes me especially excited, seeing most of my days are spent researching Cambodian cuisine and writing a Cambodian cookbook.
Our fish amok recipe makes an authentic steamed fish curry to a classic recipe from an older generation of cooks who believe that if it’s not properly steamed, then it’s not amok trei. ‘Amok’ means to steam in banana leaves and ‘trei’ means fish in Cambodia’s Khmer language.
While the dish is eaten by all Cambodians on all kinds of occasions – the firm consistency and banana leaf wrapping made it convenient for farmers to take it out to the rice paddies for a midday deal, while the sumptuous texture and rich taste made it a wedding party favourite – it’s thought that this refined dish is a Royal Khmer specialty dating as far back as the Khmer Empire.
Cambodian Fish Amok Recipe for an Authentic Steamed Fish Curry in the Old Style
Tomato Bredie Recipe for a Classic Cape Town Stew
Next on the list of 10 most popular recipes of March 2023 was this tomato bredie recipe, which makes a classic Cape Town stew. A bredie, which is an Afrikaans word meaning ‘stew’, is a slow-cooked mutton and tomato stew, and it’s as Cape Town as Table Mountain.
The variety of bredies and amount of spices used have an infinite variety of permeations. This is Terence’s version, cooked during our two weeks in Cape Town back in 2010, on that trip that launched Grantourismo.
After sampling the dish in Cape Town restaurants during our stay, and making it in our kitchen several times, Terence found the sweet spot with this recipe, a good mix of lamb pieces cooked for at least a couple of hours, a good rest overnight before reheating, and then add the potatoes.
Garnish with fragrant coriander and serve this tomato bredie recipe with some aromatic rice, and roti if possible, and a good South African Shiraz or some ice cold beer.
Tomato Bredie Recipe for a Classic Cape Town Stew from South Africa
Authentic Nom Banh Chok Recipe for Khmer Noodles
Cambodian food has such a special place in our hearts, having spent almost a decade here, researching and writing our epic Cambodian cookbook and culinary history, so I was thrilled to see not one but two Cambodian dishes land on this list of 10 most popular recipes of March 2023.
Nom banh chok, which is both the name of the fresh rice noodles and the dish itself, is an ancient Khmer specialty that has influenced so many other dishes around Southeast Asia, from Thailand’s khanom jeen to a Southern Vietnamese Khmer dish from the Mekong Delta called bún kèn.
There are a handful of types of nom banh chok but our authentic nom banh chok recipe for Cambodia’s beloved ‘Khmer Noodles’ makes nom banh chok samlor proher, a popular breakfast dish of the rice noodles doused in a yellow-green coconut-based fish curry, garnished with fragrant herbs, seasonal vegetables, edible flowers, and wild herbs.
Authentic Nom Banh Chok Recipe for Cambodia’s Beloved Khmer Noodles
Half Boiled Eggs Recipe for Classic Kopitiam Eggs to Go With Your Kaya Toast
This half-boiled eggs recipe makes the classic kopitiam eggs tailor-made for having with kaya toast in a Singaporean or Malaysian coffee shop and it’s another of our 10 most popular recipes of March 2023.
The just-set, still runny yolks and milky whites are perfect for dipping toast ‘soldiers’ into. The secret is getting perfectly soft eggs every time. Terence’s technique is flawless for achieving the perfect soft boiled eggs every time.
This half-boiled eggs recipe for classic Singaporean and Malaysian kopitiam (coffee shop) eggs, like many of our recent Weekend Eggs recipes, came from a place of missing our former life of travel and the opportunities it gave us to experience local rituals, particularly of the culinary kind.
We’ve especially been missing the experience of lingering over a long, slow, weekend breakfast or brunch at a local cafe or coffee shop and whatever that entails wherever we are in the world, and this half-boiled eggs recipe is a result of us craving the quintessential kopitiam breakfast in Singapore and Malaysia.
Half Boiled Eggs Recipe for Classic Kopitiam Eggs to Go With Your Kaya Toast
Cheesy Pasta and Potatoes Recipe for the Southern Italian Pasta e Patate
I was so excited to see our cheesy pasta and potatoes recipe for the Southern Italian pasta e patate land on this list of 10 most popular recipes of March 2023.
This recipe makes a home-cooked comfort food dish that you’re unlikely to see on Italian restaurant menus in Italy unless you get off the tourist trail or into a local home.
I love to tuck into in a bowl on the couch in my pyjamas during a Netflix binge session. It’s that kind of meal. If we are eating it at the table, we’re going to keep things simple.
Some slices of sourdough and a simple rucola and tomato salad on the side are all it needs. If we were renting an apartment in Italy, we’d be pouring tumblers of a simple table wine.
While the Neapolitan pasta, patate e provola with provolone cheese is better known, Parmigiano Reggiano or Pecorino Romano can also be used and are my preference.
Cheesy Pasta and Potatoes Recipe for the Southern Italian Pasta e Patate
Authentic Mexican Guacamole Recipe Like Grandma Made
This authentic Mexican guacamole recipe was next on the list of our 10 most popular recipes of March 2023, which was so cool to see, as it’s another recipe that we added to the site during our time in Mexico way back in 2010.
Our recipe makes a genuine Mexican guacamole of the kind your Mexican abuela (grandma) might make – the kind that’s made table-side at good restaurants in Mexico. It’s all about the creamy luscious texture, bright green colour and full flavour of perfectly ripe avocados
I’ve been making this authentic Mexican guacamole recipe for almost 30 years, since we tasted our first genuine guacamole in Mexico City on our inaugural trip to Mexico in the mid-Nineties. We became so smitten with that sublime guacamole that was so much simpler yet far superior to the one I’d been making, that we adapted a guacamole ritual and I’ve been making it ever since.
Whether you use a Mexican mortar and pestle called a molcajete or not is much-debated. In Mexico City, chef Martha Ortiz said it was essential, while our cooking instructor in San Miguel de Allende was adamant it wasn’t. As most of our readers outside Mexico probably won’t have a molcajete, the recipe calls for a fork. You could also use a Southeast Asian granite mortar and pestle.
Authentic Mexican Guacamole Recipe Just Like Your Mexican Abuela Would Make
Best Canned Corn Recipes for Budget Friendly Meals that are Delicious and Affordable
I was so pleased to see this post on our best canned corn recipes on the list of our 10 most popular recipes of March 2023. I’m so glad to know that it resonated with readers, as so many of us are doing it tough around the world.
These recipes will make you wallet friendly meals that are delicious and affordable. While we’ll always use fresh cobs of corn for these corn recipes when we can source them, tinned corn kernels are excellent in their absence. Canned course is rich in antioxidants and a fantastic source of vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin C, potassium, and iron.
As our collections of best canned beans recipes and best tinned tomato recipes for thrifty meals proved so popular with you all, we thought we’d share a collection of our best canned corn recipes for even more wallet friendly meals for those of you feeling the pinch right now, so it was great to see that readers appreciated this compilation.
Like canned tomatoes and canned beans, cans of corn are a pantry essential as far as we’re concerned. In fact, we usually have a few tins of corn in our kitchen cupboard for emergencies, stacked alongside the cans of butter beans and lentils, and various kinds of tinned tomatoes, coconut milk and coconut cream.
Best Canned Corn Recipes for Budget Friendly Meals that are Delicious and Affordable
Best Irish Stew Recipe a Deeply Flavoured Irish Classic
This is the best Irish stew recipe for a deeply flavoured classic Irish stew with a rich gravy thanks to an easy roux – and half a bottle of Shiraz – and it was great to see this land on the list of our 10 most popular recipes of March 2023.
Dishes don’t get more Irish than this traditional Irish stew, considered by many to be Ireland’s national dish, and every year I cook this for St Patrick’s Day, which I use as an excuse to cook Irish food.
Terence is the one with Irish ancestry in our little family and Irish stews were part of his mother’s repertoire, but I take on Irish stew duties, as I grew up eating and later cooking Russian-Ukrainian stews, and I have to confess to having a thing about stews. (Have you made my Russian beef stew?)
If you’re also a stew lover, you’re going to adore this Irish stew recipe. While I do the stews, Terence makes a delicious Irish breakfast colcannon with bacon and eggs, which I encourage you to try.
Best Irish Stew Recipe for a Deeply Flavoured Traditional Irish Beef Stew
Old Fashioned Chicken Lentil Soup Recipe with Potatoes, Carrots, Celery and Dill
My easy chicken lentil soup recipe with potatoes, carrots, celery and dill makes one of those endearingly old-fashioned chicken soups that will transport you back to simpler times, so I loved seeing this recipe land on the list of our 10 most popular recipes of March 2023.
It’s a quick and easy soup to make, especially if you use leftover chicken, rotisserie chicken and canned lentils. We poach chicken breasts and use the liquid as the soup stock
It’s an easy and endearingly old-fashioned chicken lentil soup with potatoes, carrots, celery and dill, and it’s quickly become one of my favourite chicken soup recipes.
Don’t make this soup recipe if you’re looking for a big bold bowl of broth that’s brimming with flavour and texture or intensely spiced. You’ll find plenty of recipes in our archives for those, such as a whole collection of spicy noodle soups from Southeast Asia, such as this khao soi gai recipe for a Chiang Mai curry noodle soup.
Old Fashioned Chicken Lentil Soup Recipe with Potatoes, Carrots, Celery and Dill
Please let us know in the comments below if you make any of the recipes in this round-up of our most popular recipes of March 2023 as we’d love to hear how they turn out for you.
