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The 10 Most Popular Recipes of May 2021

This month we were all about spring veg and comfort food.
Tadka Pasta Recipe
Photo by Isa Zapata, food styling by Micah Morton, prop styling by Nicole Louie

If our recipes could talk, they would tell us that we all (especially us on the East Coast!) exhaled a collective sigh of relief at the arrival of warmer weather and bustling farmers markets this month. Our most popular May recipes feature a bounty of seasonal veggies, like roasted asparagus (with crispy-buttery fish!), low-and-slow-cooked beans with all the spring alliums, and tadka-style pasta laced with fresh peas. But all that incoming produce didn’t stop us from craving comfort food, either. Look beyond the veg and you’ll find pillowy, steamed mantou, hearty steak au poivre, and berry-glazed chicken wings. What can we say? We wanted it all this month. Here are our most popular recipes from May—starting with No. 1.

  • Thai Roast Chicken Thighs With Coconut Rice recipe
    Photo by Isa Zapata, food styling by Micah Morton, prop styling by Nicole Louie
    1/10

    Thai Roast Chicken Thighs With Coconut Rice

    This single skillet, weeknight riff on Diana Yen's favorite Thai rotisserie chicken packs coconut milk, lime juice, and fish sauce for plenty of umami.

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  • Photo by Taylor Peden and Jen Munk / Courtesy Clarkson Potter, Random House
    2/10

    Strip Steak au Poivre

    A nice steak plus this simple pan sauce will fulfill all your 10 p.m. Parisian dinner dreams.

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  • Photograph by Alex Lau, food styling by Susie Theodorou, prop styling by Sophie Strangio
    9/10

    Chana Masala

    The key to Yasmin Khan’s excellent chana masala? Chickpeas so soft that they melt in your mouth.

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  • Photo by Emma Fishman, food styling by D'Mytrek Brown
    10/10

    Barbara’s Picnic Fried Chicken

    It took poet Kwame Alexander twelve tries to recreate his late mother’s perfectly crispy-juicy fried chicken. Luckily, he wrote down the recipe for you.

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Mehreen Karim was formerly the Recipe Production Assistant at Bon Appétit, where she built recipes and stories for bonappetit.com. She also developed recipes and wrote stories to help readers discover unlikely food combinations (caramelized dates and asparagus) and cooking hacks (how to grill chicken without a grill) to inspire home... Read more
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