Top 10 recipes you loved in May 2025
We moved from warm to chilly weather, celebrated mother figures on Mother’s Day and acknowledged Africa Month. That means that comfort food and local favourites feature in the top 10 most popular recipes in May. Did your favourite make the list?
10. Melkkos with cinnamon-poached pears
This month, we teamed up with food creators to celebrate Africa Month. Herman Lensing was one of them, and he made a nostalgic Afrikaans classic with a twist. Using his grandmother's techniques, he made melkkos and bougied it up with cinnamon-poached pears. Not only is melkkos an easier way to get that distinct milk tart flavour, but it's also a dessert that's acceptable to have for breakfast!
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Melkkos with cinnamon-poached pears recipe
9. Easy beef stew
It may still be autumn, but we're already experiencing some cold days – we're looking at you, multiple cold fronts in CT! So it makes perfect sense that some of you were making comforting stews. This beef stew by Khanya Mzongwana is, as the title suggests, easy to make. You can also adapt it to use your favourite protein. We're sure you already have this bookmarked.
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8. Beef-and-vegetable stir-fry
Deciding what to have for supper is always a chore. Clem Pedro made this decision easier with his supper club series, in which he cooked four meals from one grocery shop. This beef-and-vegetable stir-fry is the first of two supper club recipes on this list. It's full of flavour, loaded with veggies and easily adaptable.
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Beef-and-vegetable stir-fry recipe
7. One-pot chicken and rice
One-pot recipes are always a firm favourite. We get it: a hearty meal with minimal washing up sounds like a dream. Clem's one-pot chicken and rice hits all those notes, plus it's easy on the pocket.
One-pot chicken and rice recipe
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6. Ivor Jones’s mushroom lasagne
We bet that one of your favourite foods is something your mother or gran made. We love moms' recipes so much, we asked top chefs to recreate their mom's best dishes for Mother's Day. Ivor Jones of Chefs Warehouse at Beau Chefs Warehouse made his mom's mushroom lasagne, and you all loved it. We're sure this recipe will become as special to your family as it is to Ivor's.
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Ivor Jones’s mushroom lasagne recipe
5. Easy tuna pasta bake
Is there anything better than a baked, cheesy pasta on a chilly day? This is the second of Clem's supper club recipes and it's perfection. Clem ups the flavour by adding Woolworths' sundried tomato stir-through pasta sauce to the cheese sauce and topping it with garlic breadcrumbs. If you're short on time, you can use a ready-made white sauce instead of making your own from scratch.
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4. Individual malva puddings
A slight breeze is enough to make us want a warm pudding! As soon as the weather started turning, we shared our trusty warm pudding recipe collection. It comes as no surprise that malva pudding is your pud of choice! This recipe by Hannah Lewry is everything you want in a malva: luscious, sticky and syrupy sweet. Hannah makes them as individual servings, but you can create a bigger version if you prefer.
Individual malva pudding recipe
3. Oven-baked prawn-and-mushroom pasta
This pasta recipe by Phillippa Cheifitz works as either a splurge supper when you want to treat yourself, or as a special occasion meal. The prawns and pasta are made separately, so even if you choose to make just one element of this dish, it will still hit the spot.
Oven-baked prawn and mushroom pasta recipe
2. Chicken-and-paneer butter masala
Phillippa hit a home run with this recipe. It comes together in just 25 minutes, is made in one pan, and is delicious. It's no wonder that of all the daily dinner recipes we share, this one made it to number two!
Chicken-and-paneer butter masala recipe
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1. 3-ingredient lemon tarts
After a slew of public holidays at the end of April and the beginning of May, we needed a sweet treat to get through a full week of work! So we shared Abigail Donnelly's 3-ingredient lemon tarts to make us (and you) feel better. It seems to have done the trick!
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