Quick Italian midweek meal recipes
Bring Italy to your table. These Italian midweek meals are all ready in under an hour. Why not try…puttanesca, ravioli or a Roman cacio e pepe?
Discover all our Italian pasta recipes, Italian chicken recipes, and Italian vegetarian recipes.
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Weekly pasta recipes
Brothy tortelloni with beans
Speedy dinners don’t have to be boring. Cooking shop-bought filled pasta in a garlic and chilli-spiked broth with creamy beans...
Weekly pasta recipes
Penne all’arrabbiata
Penne all’arrabbiata is a classic pasta dish and is proof that a few good ingredients can create greatness. It hails...
April seasonal recipes
Gennaro Contaldo’s asparagus carbonara
Gennaro Contaldo gives classic carbonara a spring makeover with the addition of asparagus. “A classic carbonara is loved the world...
Polenta recipes
Creamy polenta with mushrooms and taleggio
The warm Italian embrace of this unashamedly autumnal dish is hard to resist. A bed of buttery polenta is adorned...
Easy orzo recipes
Porcini orzotto
Packed with flavour but lighter than a regular risotto, this easy ‘orzotto’ switches out rice for orzo pasta and uses...
Pancake recipes
Italian savoury pancakes (soffiatini)
These savoury pancakes from food writer Ursula Ferrigno hail from southern Italy, where they’re known as soffiantini or ‘whispers’. The...
30-minute meal recipes
Best pesto pasta
As far removed from any jarred pesto as you can get, this is the pesto pasta you wish you had...
Summer pasta recipes
Trapanese pesto pasta with salmon
Basil and pine nut pesto, originally from Liguria, tends to hog the quick pasta sauce limelight, but Sicily’s trapanese pesto...
Summer salads and sides
Caprese salad
This colourful Italian classic is all about showcasing the best of simple ingredients. Here, we’ve used in-season tomatoes in a...
30-minute meal recipes
Pine nut cod with puttanesca sauce
Serve cod with puttanesca style sauce. Inspired by the iconic Italian sauce, this dinner is packed with all the flavours...
Easy student recipes
Spaghetti aglio e olio
Aglio e olio is simple Italian cooking at its finest. Originally from Naples, this pasta dish shows how just a...
30-minute meal recipes
Bucatini cacio e pepe
Cacio e pepe is one of those dishes that rely on the method as much as the ingredients. This one,...
'Nduja recipes
Speedy tagliatelle with ‘nduja, mascarpone and spinach
This easy budget tagliatelle dish scores high for its sustainability and budget credentials, because it uses little energy. Capturing the...
30-minute meal recipes
Pork piccata with mashed potatoes and roast apples
Piccata is an Italian dish of chicken escalope, dredged in flour then browned and served with a lemon, caper and...
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