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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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Classic ragù and mozzarella pasta bake

Try this twist on a bolognese for a dinner that will feed the whole family –…

🍽 Serves 4-6⏱ 45 min hands-on · 25 min oven◆ Easy

”Whether they’re piled on top of spaghetti, wrapped in a sub or, like these, served with…

🍽 Serves 6-8⏱ 1 hour hands-on◆ Easy

This is a great recipe for those following a 5:2 diet, but equally makes a warming…

Dairy-free

🍽 Serves 1⏱ 20 min hands-on · 15 min oven◆ Easy

Instead of using lots of butter and parmesan, we’ve stirred through a little goat’s cheese at…

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

For the Jewish community of northern Italy, frisinsal – or Pharaoh’s wheel is a very significant…

🍽 Serves 4⏱ 20-30 min hands-on◆ Easy

Use up your leftover veg in this cauliflower macaroni cheese recipe with a crispy breadcrumb topping.…

🍽 Serves 4⏱ 20 min hands-on◆ Easy

This Italian dish has everything: cheese sauce, sourdough bread, sherry, crunchy hazelnuts and pasta. It will…

Vegetarian

🍽 Serves 6⏱ 45 min hands-on◆ Easy

This cheesy pasta recipe by Thane Prince is not for the faint-hearted but, boy, is it…

🍽 Serves 4⏱ 20 min hands-on◆ Easy

The lengthy oven time transforms a tough, inexpensive cut of meat into a first-rate, flavourful roast…

🍽 Serves 8⏱ 30 min hands-on◆ Medium

Posh cheese on toast topped with two types of cheese, parma ham, sweet roasted pears and…

🍽 Serves 6.⏱ 30 min hands-on◆ Easy

A really easy supper that combines caramelised root veg, crispy parma ham, croutons and a refreshing…

🍽 Serves 4⏱ 30 min hands-on · 45 min oven◆ Easy

We’ve pimped up the pesto with a handful of kale and added a wonderfully crunchy breadcrumb…

Vegetarian

🍽 Serves 4⏱ 20 min hands-on◆ Easy

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