Italian Recipes

This quick and easy dish tastes refreshingly delicious, and it's also packed with nutrients. Use whole wheat pasta to add extra goodness, or use gluten-free pasta if you are on a gluten-free diet.

The biscotti turned out delicious, by adding white chocolate really enhanced the depth of the flavor, and also gave the biscotti a softer and creamier texture, which also made these yummy biscotti highly additive. Almond and dried apricots added the rich nuttiness and sweet-sour juicy bites.

Italian meatball cookies with warm spices, cocoa, raisins, nuts, and chocolate chips rolled into small round drops. A traditional Italian-American holiday cookie that looks like its dinner-table namesake.

Italian panettone bread baked in the bread machine: a Christmas yeast bread with raisins, currants, candied citron, honey, and a hint of star anise. The Milanese holiday classic made easy.

Make your pasta dishes seem authentic with this spaghetti sauce made of Italian sausage, tomatoes and a variety of spices.

This is the best lassagna I have ever tried, basil-pesto definitely gave the whole lasagna tons of tasty flavor, also used low-fat milk and cheese, reduced the amount of fat, but the sauce was still creamy, asparagus was tender-crispy between the layered creamy stuffed noodles.

Tortellini with prosciutto and sweet peas in an easy tortellini sauce based on mushrooms and garlic cream. Comes together & is on the table very quickly.

Bell peppers and sausages are cooked in a tasty tomato sauce, then served over a bed of warm penne. An ideal meal for a busy week night.

Spinach and ricotta seasoned with parmesan rolled inside crêpes then baked with a savory marinara sauce. Italian flavor with a French twist.

Easy and tasty meatballs, these are great for meatball subs.

Following this recipe makes a perfect focaccia, fluffy inside, crusty outside, and very flavorful. Several rising processes make the great texture and flavor.

Using a box cake mix as a base is a time saver; substituting cream cheese for mascarpone is a money saver. Tastes like the real thing, is beautiful and surprisingly light.

These are lots of yummy ingredients in these biscotti, you can find them all in every single bite. Very chocolaty, toasted almonds add the nuttiness, and the orange zest goes deliciously well with chocolate. Enjoy these biscotti with a cup of coffee at any time.

An Italian style pasta salad with well seasoned pasta and perfectly cooked broccoli.

Tortellini tossed in a rich Parmesan cream sauce with sautéed ham cubes. A Northern Italian staple that comes together in 35 minutes with just a handful of ingredients.

This focaccia turns out crusty outside and fluffy inside, the roasted bell pepper, chilis, cherry tomato and mozzarella give the focaccia amazingly delicious flavor. Eating it directly without anything else is yummy enough to satisfy your palate. This recipe is adapted from Chef Nancy, New York Times!