Our top-rated recipes are the ones you keep coming back to time and time again. They cover a wide range of cooking occasions and styles. There are classics to impress your dinner guests, like potato dauphinoise and spaghetti alle vongole, as well as flavour-packed midweek meals, like homemade beans on toast or sticky, fragrant stir-fried pork. But, you’ll be forgiven for making a beeline to our most popular desserts, including a towering tiramisu and nostalgic coffee and walnut cake. Give them a go and see what all the fuss is about!

Coffee and walnut cake is an afternoon tea classic. This version is based on food writer Karen Burns-Booth’s own mum’s recipe, using coffee and chopped walnuts in the sponge mixture, extra coffee in the rich buttercream and a final flourish of nuts. This is a recipe you’ll want to save! 

Spaghetti alle vongole is said to have originated on the southern coast of Italy, around Naples. So where better to look for the ultimate recipe than our sister site, Great Italian Chefs? This best-loved version shows you how to prep and treat fresh clams at home, as well as the method for a beautifully simple pan sauce which uses the pasta cooking water to bring everything together.

This rich and delicious, restaurant-quality ox cheek ragù is cooked low and slow for meltingly tender results. The veg in the sauce not only flavours it but means it’s a meal in one, served over mash or pasta ribbons. 

The confit potatoes from The Quality Chop House are legendary in status, and haven’t ever been off the menu since they arrived on it 2013. The restaurant’s chefs give us the secret for these spectacularly golden, crunchy on the outside creamy in the centre, layered potatoes. No wonder this is one of your favourite recipes on our site!

Baked beans are a staple in many households, and this recipe shows how easy it is to make your own at home. Totally plant-based, these vegan beans don’t rely on bacon or dairy for depth of flavour, with a salty umami kick coming from soy and spices simmered with cannellini beans and passata.

This is Italian comfort food at its best, straight from our team at Great Italian Chefs. Pasta tubes are stuffed with a velvety, slow-cooked ragù which uses half beef and half pork for extra flavour. The recipe also shows you how to make a perfect béchamel, which tops the dish before baking.

This nut roast is the ‘ultimate’, and one of our most popular vegetarian mains. Packed with flavour, it has a moist texture thanks to the base of lentils, mushrooms and chestnuts, and aromatics such as black garlic and orange zest. Perfect for a festive centrepiece, or extra special Sunday lunch.

Said to have originated in the Dauphine region of France, in the South-Eastern Alps, this decadent dish is rich and special and a fantastic side for roasted meat. Plus it’s surprisingly simple to make – with layers of finely sliced potato cooked in a fragrant creamy sauce – but does take some planning ahead as chef Josh Eggerton suggests overnight pressing after the first bake for the best results. 

Cookbook author and recipe developer Shu Han Lee brings us her spin on a Thai street food favourite. Great for a quick weeknight supper with loads of flavour, this easy recipe can be ready in a matter of minutes. The use of dark soy and oyster sauce gives the mince an irresistibly glossy finish.

This couldn’t be a favourite recipe list without the inclusion of a curry, and this bhuna by top chef Peter Joseph is your go-to. The word ‘bhuna’ refers to the technique of tempering spices in oil, along with onion and garlic, to give a wonderfully fragranced sauce. The chicken is then cooked in this masala, letting it absorb all the flavour. 

From the Italian meaning ‘pick me up’ this most classic of Mediterranean desserts is an indulgent combination of sponge, coffee and creamy custard. It has spawned many iterations and spins, but to master the original check out chef Monica Shaw’s version.