Cuisine
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…
Explore our Italian starter recipes, Italian pastas and Italian desserts.
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Traditionally made with local pachino cherry tomatoes, this salad also includes capers, which the island of…
This rich, robust dish makes the most of Piedmont’s famous rice and wine, with plenty of…
A properly authentic brodetto (Italian fish stew) from Ancone, in Le Marche, contains an unfeasible 13…
The Austrian influence on the food of the mountainous Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige is perfectly encapsulated…
These concave biscuits are named after their shape – tegole means ‘tiles’, as they resemble roof…
For such a small Italian region, Molise is the birthplace of many famous pasta shapes –…
Sicilian chef Alfio Laudani shares a make-ahead dessert perfect for hot summer days. Almond granita is…
These rich, crunchy meatballs – a Milanese mainstay – may have begun as a way to…
Everyone thinks spaghetti with meatballs is an Italian-American invention – but in Abruzzo, they’ve been doing…
Four ingredients are all it takes to create frico, this simple yet irresistibly flavoursome potato dish…
Chef Antonio ‘Lello’ Favuzzi shares a classic recipe from his beloved Sardinia. The island of Sardinia…
These triangular-shaped ravioli are a speciality of Italy’s Liguria region, often filled with whatever wild and…
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