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It’s been 12 months of delicious dishes, and these are the biggest hits published this year: marry me chicken, banana pudding, gochujang noodles, white chicken chili and more.

The dishes our readers loved most this year include recipes for chicken, pasta, soup, burgers and more.

Pesto becomes more full-bodied with the addition of broccoli that’s blanched in the same pot as the pasta and fresher with the combination of mint and lemon. For a sauce that's light and loose, use only the florets — not the stems. Raw walnuts have a welcome natural sweetness and nice crunch that complement the pesto, but you can leave them out or substitute sunflower seeds if you have a tree-nut allergy.

For the 10th anniversary of NYT Cooking, we’ve collected recipes that racked up five-star ratings, topped our charts and went viral — plus a few that lit up the comments section.

NYT Cooking is the digital source for thousands of the best recipes from The New York Times along with how-to guides for home cooks at every skill level. Discover new recipes that are tried, tested, and truly delicious with NYT Cooking.

Our 50 Most Popular Recipes of All Time (So Far) is a group of recipes collected by the editors of NYT Cooking.

This is a no-recipe recipe, a recipe without an ingredients list or steps It invites you to improvise in the kitchen. Pick up a heat-lamp roast chicken at the market on the way home — it’s O.K. — and tear it apart to feed four, or half of it for two, shredding the meat with your fingers

Eat well in the coming days with Aaron Hutcherson’s creamy white bean and fennel casserole, Tejal Rao’s toor dal, and Julia Moskin’s black bean soup.

This flexible, "no-recipe" recipe from The New York Times Cooking is classic, American-style comfort food; melt-in-the-mouth meat cooked in a rich, deeply savoury sauce. Serve it with steamed rice and wilted greens for a rainy day feast.

This one-pot pasta comes together in minutes, and requires zero prep and minimal cleanup. It builds on the classic combination of pasta, butter and cheese with a spoonful of miso paste for complexity. But you could experiment with using any other condiments or spices you have on hand, such as red pesto, curry paste or ground turmeric in place of the miso. To achieve a silky smooth pasta, you’ll need to put your cacio e pepe skills to work: Vigorously toss the pasta, grated cheese and pasta…