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?
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Discover all our Italian pasta recipes, Italian chicken recipes, and Italian vegetarian recipes.
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Prawn recipes
Gamberi alla busara (prawns with cherry tomato sauce)
This recipe for prawns with a spicy tomato sauce hails from Italy's Veneto region. Enjoy with crusty bread or as a sauce for pasta.
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Tomato salad recipes
Insalata pantesca (Pantelleria-style cherry tomato salad)
This cherry tomato salad recipe comes from Pantelleria, an island between Sicily and Tunisia. It's perfect for a lunch in the sun.
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Favourite lamb recipes
Fusilli con ragù d’agnello (fusilli with lamb ragù)
For midweek pasta with a difference, try this fusilli dish from Italy's Molise region. The fusilli is paired with a rich, herby lamb ragù.
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Budget pasta recipes
Bigoli in salsa (caramelised onion and anchovy pasta)
Bigoli in salsa is a classic Venetian dish: thick pasta strands with a rich sauce of caramelised onions and anchovies. Simple yet luxurious.
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Spaghetti recipes
Spaghetti all’assassina (‘killer spaghetti’)
Puglia's spaghetti all’assassina (killer spaghetti) is unforgettable. The spaghetti crisps up and chars in a rich tomato and chilli sauce.
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Creamy pasta recipes
Pasta alla norcina
This rich pasta dish from Norcia in Umbria is a local speciality. Nuggets of fried sausage and earthy porcini mushroom infuse the cream sauce.
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Tuna recipes
Sicilian tuna pasta
This quick and easy tuna pasta is ready in under half an hour and brings the fresh, vibrant flavours of the southern Italian coastline right into your kitchen.
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Favourite chicken recipes
Spring chicken one pan casarecce
Everything gets cooked in a single pan in this recipe, with the pasta soaking up the stock for extra flavour.
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Lasagne recipes
Crab lasagne
Tomato and shallot ragù is enriched with brown crabmeat, then layered with fresh lasagne sheets and a silky bechamel flaked with white crab, lemon zest and dill.
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Weekly pasta recipes
Brothy tortelloni with beans
Cooking filled pasta in a garlic and chilli-spiked broth with creamy beans and robust cavolo nero is seriously satisfying for a-15 minute meal.
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Weekly pasta recipes
Penne all’arrabbiata
Penne all'arrabbiata hails from the Lazio region of Italy, most notably Rome. Penne is tossed with a simple tomato and chilli sauce and topped with gratings of pecorino.
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April seasonal recipes
Gennaro Contaldo’s asparagus carbonara
Gennaro Contaldo gives classic carbonara a springtime make over with the addition of asparagus in this quick and delicious recipe.
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Polenta recipes
Creamy polenta with mushrooms and taleggio
Creamy polenta is adorned with mushrooms, sweet chestnuts and gooey taleggio cheese in this unashamedly autumnal dinner recipe.
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Easy orzo recipes
Porcini orzotto
Lighter than regular risotto, this easy ‘orzotto’ switches out rice for orzo pasta and uses dried porcini for intense flavour.
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Pancake recipes
Italian savoury pancakes (soffiatini)
These Italian savoury pancakes are stuffed with spinach, mozzarella and Parma ham and baked until golden. Prep ahead for an easy dinner.
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30-minute meal recipes
Best pesto pasta
Make the best ever pesto pasta with our easy recipe. Trofie pasta is tossed together with homemade pesto, potatoes and green beans.
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