Top 5 viral TikTok recipes that are actually good
Quick answer
The viral TikTok recipes that are actually good are the simple ones: Emily Mariko's salmon rice bowl, Feel Good Foodie's baked feta pasta, Logan's cucumber salad, the grinder sandwich from @ohheyimgray and Chiles and Smoke's smash burger tacos. Each takes under an hour, uses normal ingredients and tastes as good as it looks.
Plenty of food trends look great for fifteen seconds and then fall flat at the stove. These five are different. People are still making them years later, and the reason is simple: they are easy, they are cheap, and they taste good.
Each one below links to the original video, so the creator gets the view. Use the button under each recipe to save it to Recepti and you will have the ingredients and steps written out when it is time to cook.
1 Salmon rice bowl
By Emily Mariko (@emilymariko) on TikTok
The lunch that made millions of people buy roasted seaweed. Emily flakes leftover salmon into a bowl, adds rice and steams it in the microwave with an ice cube on top, then dresses it and scoops each bite into a seaweed sheet. It is the best thing you can do with last night's salmon, and it takes no skill at all.
- Time
- About 10 minutes with leftovers
- Difficulty
- Very easy
- Key ingredients
- Leftover salmon, cooked rice, soy sauce, Kewpie mayo, sriracha, avocado, kimchi, roasted seaweed
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2 Baked feta pasta
By Yumna Jawad (@feelgoodfoodie) on TikTok · Her video on YouTube · Written recipe on Feel Good Foodie
A block of feta goes in the middle of a dish of cherry tomatoes and olive oil, the oven does the work, and you stir it all into a creamy sauce. Yumna credits Grilled Cheese Social and the Finnish uunifetapasta trend for the idea. Her video above walks through three versions. It is a weeknight dinner that feels like a treat, and it is hard to get wrong.
- Time
- About 40 minutes, mostly in the oven
- Difficulty
- Very easy
- Key ingredients
- A block of feta, cherry tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, fresh basil, pasta
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3 Cucumber salad, the Logan way
By Logan Moffitt (@logagm) on TikTok
"Sometimes you need to eat an entire cucumber." This is the video that started the whole series. Logan slices a cucumber thin into a deli container, adds a punchy savory dressing, puts the lid on and shakes. It is crunchy, salty and very hard to stop eating, and it makes a great side for rice bowls.
- Time
- 5 minutes
- Difficulty
- Very easy
- Key ingredients
- A whole English cucumber, soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, a little sugar, sesame seeds
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4 Italian grinder sandwich with grinder salad
By Gray Fultz (@ohheyimgray) on TikTok
The secret here is the grinder salad: crisp lettuce, onion and pepperoncini tossed in a tangy, garlicky mayo dressing, piled onto a toasted sandwich of Italian meats and cheese. The method comes from Pop's Market, the Richmond sandwich shop where Gray and her boyfriend Josh worked. Make the salad once and you will want it on every sandwich.
- Time
- About 20 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Key ingredients
- Italian deli meats, provolone, sub roll or focaccia, shredded iceberg, red onion, pepperoncini, mayo, red wine vinegar, oregano
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5 Smash burger tacos
By Brad Prose (@chilesandsmoke) on TikTok · Written recipe on Chiles and Smoke
Brad presses a ball of beef straight onto a flour tortilla on a hot griddle, so the meat and tortilla crisp together. Flip, add cheese, top with sauce, pickles and lettuce, and fold. You get everything you love about a smash burger in a crunchy handheld, and it cooks in minutes.
- Time
- About 10 minutes
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Key ingredients
- 80/20 ground beef, small flour tortillas, American cheese, burger sauce, pickles, shredded lettuce
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Questions
What is the most viral TikTok recipe?
Baked feta pasta is one of the biggest. It started in Finland, where stores reportedly ran out of feta, and then took over TikTok in early 2021. Emily Mariko's salmon rice bowl and Logan's cucumber salads are close behind.
Are viral TikTok recipes actually good?
Many are. The ones that last tend to be simple, use common ingredients and give you a big payoff for little effort, like the five on this list.
How do I save a TikTok recipe so I can cook it later?
Tap Share, then Copy link, and paste it into Recepti. It saves the ingredients and steps with the creator credit. The TikTok saving guide walks through it.
What if the TikTok has no written recipe?
Recepti can work from the video itself. It turns what is said into text and looks at frames from the video to build the ingredients and steps.
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