Caesar Dip, Zucchini Fries, and a Whole Lot of Potatoes: Our Most Popular Snack and Appetizer Recipes of 2024
From air-fried everything to Caesared spins and a whole lot of potatoes, these are the snack and appetizer recipes you clicked on most this year.
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In my opinion, small bites reign supreme over big meals. I would take a tablescape of small plates over a centerpiece any day, as it's a chance to try a smattering of different recipes instead of focusing on just one or two. (Alas, the creator of tapas rests peacefully in his grave.)
This year, you showed us just how much you all love small bites, too. A few of the recipes you clicked on most involved the Caesar-fication of a classic snack or appetizer, but there was also no shortage of potatoes (which, yes, are a snack even if they're not in chip form). And in some cases, your favorite recipes involved a combination of the two! So without further ado, these are the most popular snack and appetizer recipes of 2024. Might we suggest making some—or all—of them for your holiday spread? Now that would be a tablescape.
Savory Caesar Dip
The garlicky anchovy flavor of Caesar salad paired with a cream cheese base is a match made in snack heaven.
Mozzarella in Carrozza (Italian Fried Mozzarella Sandwiches)
Anything can be a snack if you really want it to be. Even (or especially, we should say) a fried sandwich stuffed with cheese.
Air-Fryer Roast Potatoes
I don't know about you, but when I want a potato or several, I don't want to wait hours for it to cook. Enter: These air-fried roast potatoes. No preheating the oven! No rimmed baking sheets! And most importantly, minimal waiting around!
Alka Seltzer Cheese Sauce
For the smoothest and creamiest cheese sauce around, we turned to our medicine cabinets. You heard us! Turns out Alka-Seltzer (specifically the aspirin-free kind) is the ideal emulsifier for cheese sauce thanks to its inclusion of baking soda and citric acid. And that's on science!
Baked Zucchini Fries With Herby Feta Dip
Bland, soggy zucchini fries? We don't know them. The keys to success here are removing the zucchini's watery seeds and dredging the sticks in panko and Parmesan.
Caesar Roast Potatoes
Roast potatoes, but make it Caesar. It's the cheesy, umami-rich spin on our most popular crispy roast potatoes recipe that we didn't know we needed.
Air-Fryer Buffalo Wings
This recipe yields crisp, juicy, well-sauced chicken wings in—wait for it—under an hour! What can't the air fryer do?
British Chips
Fries—or, sure, in this case, "chips"—are a snack, and a perfect one at that. Here, Genevieve shows us how to achieve British chips that are shatteringly crisp on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside.
Air-Fryer Shrimp
The air fryer does it again, this time churning out juicy, buttery shrimp in less than five minutes. With five variations, including jerk, Old Bay, and ginger-sesame, you can serve this shrimp on its own or as part of a larger meal.
City Chicken
City chicken is a Depression-Era Rust Belt specialty made with...pork (!) that mimics the taste and texture of chicken drumsticks. Deception at its finest.
