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Italian recipes

Italian is frequently ranked as the UK’s favourite cuisine. Make traditional pizza, pasta, desserts and more with our authentic recipes.

Crowdpleasing favourites including pasta puttanesca, tiramisu, traditional spaghetti and meatballs, our best-ever lasagne and chicken picccata.
Regional specialities such as risotto milanese, Sicilian almond granita, Florentine steak and Tuscan panzanella. Our Italian food guide has recipes from all 20 regions, so you can eat your way across the country.
Favourite Italian cocktails: stir up an easy Aperol spritz, negroni sbagliato or hugo spritz this weekend. You could even make your own limoncello…
Love pizza? Get to grips with your pizza oven with our expert guide and keep this basic dough recipe to hand. No pizza oven? No problem. Our frying pan pizza method is a winner.
Great Italian bakes: master maritozzi (luscious cream-filled buns), torta della nonna (lemon custard tart) and moreish cannoli. Then there’s pillowy focaccia…

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Battered squid, scallops and prawns

You can really taste the sea in this fried Italian seafood dish of squid, scallops and…

Dairy-free

🍽 Serves 4⏱ 5 min hands-on · 20 min oven◆ Easy

These individual orange cream cheese dessert flans are a must-have for sophisticated dinner parties.

🍽 Serves 6◆ Easy

These pesto, mascarpone and tomato pastry wheels are quick and easy to make and can be…

🍽 Makes 28 wheels◆ Easy

Easy parma ham and smoked mozzarella pizza slices to feed your party guests or snack on…

🍽 Makes 32 slices⏱ 15 min hands-on · 12 min oven◆ Easy

This extravagant roast guinea fowl recipe is a dinner party dish to show off with, especially…

🍽 Serves 4⏱ 50 min hands-on · 1 hour oven◆ Medium

One of the quickest and easiest recipes you’ll ever make – this smoked salmon pasta recipe…

🍽 Serves 2⏱ 1 min hands-on · 11 min oven◆ Easy

This butternut squash and creamy blue cheese risotto is an easy and comforting Italian dish.

Vegetarian

🍽 Serves 4◆ Easy

These crispy cheese bites make a great canapé to serve at a cocktail party.

🍽 Makes 32 bites◆ Easy

Add Boursin to penne pasta, with mushroom, pancetta and chilli, for a quick creamy dinner recipe…

🍽 Serves 2⏱ 3 min hands-on · 12 min oven◆ Easy

Meatballs made with the flavours of pesto – pine nuts, basil, garlic and shallots are mixed…

🍽 Serves 4◆ Easy

This simple Italian tomato and mozzarella calzone recipe is always a crowd pleaser.

🍽 Serves 6◆ Easy

This chicken, pesto and pasta recipe is a simple and quick Italian dish.

🍽 Serves 2⏱ 5 min hands-on · 15 min oven◆ Easy

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