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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Creamy polenta with mushrooms and taleggio

Polenta recipes

Creamy polenta with mushrooms and taleggio

The warm Italian embrace of this unashamedly autumnal dish is hard to resist. A bed of buttery polenta is adorned...

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Porcini orzotto

Easy orzo recipes

Porcini orzotto

Packed with flavour but lighter than a regular risotto, this easy ‘orzotto’ switches out rice for orzo pasta and uses...

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Italian savoury pancakes (soffiatini)

Pancake recipes

Italian savoury pancakes (soffiatini)

These savoury pancakes from food writer Ursula Ferrigno hail from southern Italy, where they’re known as soffiantini or ‘whispers’. The...

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Best pesto pasta

30-minute meal recipes

Best pesto pasta

As far removed from any jarred pesto as you can get, this is the pesto pasta you wish you had...

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Trapanese pesto pasta with salmon

Summer pasta recipes

Trapanese pesto pasta with salmon

Basil and pine nut pesto, originally from Liguria, tends to hog the quick pasta sauce limelight, but Sicily’s trapanese pesto...

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Caprese salad

Summer salads and sides

Caprese salad

This colourful Italian classic is all about showcasing the best of simple ingredients. Here, we’ve used in-season tomatoes in a...

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Pine nut cod with puttanesca sauce

30-minute meal recipes

Pine nut cod with puttanesca sauce

Serve cod with puttanesca style sauce. Inspired by the iconic Italian sauce, this dinner is packed with all the flavours...

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Spaghetti aglio e olio

Easy student recipes

Spaghetti aglio e olio

Aglio e olio is simple Italian cooking at its finest. Originally from Naples, this pasta dish shows how just a...

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Orzo carbonara

Easy dinner party mains

Orzo carbonara

It certainly won’t please any Italians, but making carbonara with orzo instead of the more usual spaghetti or rigatoni creates...

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Bucatini cacio e pepe

30-minute meal recipes

Bucatini cacio e pepe

Cacio e pepe is one of those dishes that rely on the method as much as the ingredients. This one,...

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Chicken florentine with winter greens

30-minute meal recipes

Chicken florentine with winter greens

We’ve switched the traditional spinach in a chicken florentine to cavolo nero for a winter version of this Italian classic....

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Speedy tagliatelle with ‘nduja, mascarpone and spinach

'Nduja recipes

Speedy tagliatelle with ‘nduja, mascarpone and spinach

This easy budget tagliatelle dish scores high for its sustainability and budget credentials, because it uses little energy. Capturing the...

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Pork piccata with mashed potatoes and roast apples

30-minute meal recipes

Pork piccata with mashed potatoes and roast apples

Piccata is an Italian dish of chicken escalope, dredged in flour then browned and served with a lemon, caper and...

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Pumpkin and sage frittata

Frittata recipes

Pumpkin and sage frittata

The dense flesh of Delica pumpkin provides a beautiful contrast to the fluffy egg in this thick Italian frittata. Serve...

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Pasta with beans and sausages

15-minute meal recipes

Pasta with beans and sausages

This riff on pasta e fagioli (pasta with beans) is big on flavour and low on budget. Feed a family...

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Lemon pasta

15-minute meal recipes

Lemon pasta

Pasta al limone is a classic Italian storecupboard dinner. The key players are anchovies, olives, lemons and stale bread, and...

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