The 10 Most Popular Recipes in September 2019

Featuring smoky-sweet roast chicken, lemony fritters, and more ultra-comforting dishes.

September 30, 2019

While we’re sad to see the beach trips and backyard barbecues go, we’ve never been more ready for fall. In fact, we started swapping the swimsuits for hearty bowlfuls cheeseburger pasta pretty early in the month—even when temps were still screaming peak tomato season. And that’s not all. Readers returned to baking with a bright and punchy lemon-pistachio loaf from Ochre Bakery in Detroit (No. 4 on our Hot Ten list this year!), fried up batch after batch of zucchini-lentil fritters, and proved there’s so much more to roast chicken than crispy skin with a smoky-sweet, gochujang-slathered bird. The seasons may change, but these recipes will be a source of comfort all year long.

Photo by Chelsie Craig, Food Styling by Yekaterina Boytsova
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Slow-Roast Gochujang Chicken
This isn’t the crisp-skinned, high-heat-roast chicken you’re probably familiar with. Instead, it’s a melt-in-your-mouth tender, schmaltzy, slow-roast version.
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Photo by Emma Fishman, Food Styling by Sue Li
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Zucchini-Lentil Fritters With Lemony Yogurt
These crispy, crackly zucchini fritters take inspiration from the traditional Bengali onion snacks piyaju.
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Photograph by Isa Zapata, Food Styling by Taneka Morris, Prop Styling by Tim Ferro
3/10
Just-Keeps-Getting-Better Lentil Salad
Here’s the answer to your question: “What can I make on Sunday night that will taste great for my desk lunch on Wednesday?”
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Photo by Chelsie Craig, food styling by Kat Boytsova
4/10
All-American Cheeseburger Pasta
Whether you know it as American Chop Suey, Chili Mac, or American Goulash, this deeply flavorful, super-comforting pasta dish is greater than the sum of its humble parts.
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Photo by Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott
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Lemon-Pistachio Loaf
A mega-moist olive oil loaf cake from Ochre Bakery that’s bright and lemony.
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Photo by Chelsie Craig, Food Styling by Yekaterina Boytsova
6/10
Easy Noodle Kugel
After an intense internal debate about what a noodle kugel should be, this is where we landed.
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Photo by Emma Fishman, Food Styling by Sue Li
7/10
Nut Butter Granola Bars
This just-sweet-enough, chewy-but-firm bar is bound together by peanut butter and honey.
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Photo by Emma Fishman, Food Styling by Sue Li
8/10
Poached Cod in Tomato Curry
We opted to use cherry tomatoes for this poached cod recipe because we like their sweetness and how quickly they collapse into a sauce.
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Photo by Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott
9/10
Chocolate-Hazelnut Cookies
These irresistible cookies from Ochre Bakery in Detroit have stripes of melted chocolate and crunchy bites of hazelnut and raw sugar. Yes, you need another chocolate chip cookie.
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Photo by Chelsie Craig, Food Styling by Yekaterina Boytsova
10/10
Added-Value Grilled Cheese
Starting your grilled cheese (slathered in mayo, obviously) in a cold nonstick skillet, then slowly and gently heating it up is the trick to achieving evenly golden brown, supremely crisp exteriors, with molten cheesy interiors.
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