Best Homemade Italian Recipes
Tortellini in Puff Pastry Recipe is a golden pastry shell filled with meat tortellini, smoked ham, sage and Parmesan in light cream, ready in about 1 hour. It feeds 4 and works well as a centerpiece when you want the pasta served inside an edible bowl. Why This Recipe Works The pastry bakes over the …
Homemade Doner Kebab Recipe gives you thin-rolled ground beef with onion juice, yogurt and cumin, baked and pulled into crisp shreds, ready in about 1 hour. It feeds 4, needs no spit or special equipment, and turns out tender inside with browned edges. Why This Recipe Works The meat is kneaded for about 10 minutes, …
Eggplant towers with beef are roasted eggplant slices layered with spiced ground beef and peppers, topped with melted cheese and tomato, and ready in 1 hour 30 minutes. The recipe makes 4 towers, one per serving, and everything bakes in one dish with a light tomato sauce. Why This Recipe Works The eggplant slices soak …
2-ingredient banana coconut cookies are chewy little rounds made from just ripe bananas and shredded coconut, ready in about 35 minutes. The recipe makes 15 to 16 cookies, and a drizzle of melted chocolate turns them into a treat with no flour, butter or added sugar. Why This Recipe Works The bananas do two jobs …
Creamy cucumber salad is a cool side of cucumbers, red onion and corn in a garlicky yogurt dill dressing, ready in 15 minutes. It makes 4 servings and needs no cooking, which suits a hot day or a barbecue. Why This Recipe Works The dressing mixes plain yogurt, strained yogurt and a little mayonnaise. Thick …
Vermicelli yogurt soup is a creamy, tangy soup of full-fat yogurt, thin vermicelli noodles and dried mint, ready in about 35 minutes. It feeds 4, needs only a handful of pantry ingredients, and works as a quick meatless dinner. Why This Recipe Works The soup starts with everything cold: yogurt, egg, flour, garlic and water …
Lebeniye soup is a creamy yogurt soup with rice, chickpeas and tiny browned beef or lamb meatballs, ready in about 55 minutes. It feeds 4 and makes a filling dinner on a cool evening. Why This Recipe Works The soup base is only rice and water. The rice cooks until it is very soft and …
Lemon garlic green beans with chicken thighs is a one-skillet dinner of sliced chicken, green beans and lemon butter sauce, ready in about 35 minutes. It feeds 4, and cleanup is quick. Why This Recipe Works Slicing the chicken thighs into thin pieces means they cook through in 3 to 4 minutes per side. Patting …
Trenette with basil sauce is a pesto pasta of trenette (or linguine), fresh basil, pine nuts, garlic and Parmesan, ready in about 25 minutes. It feeds 4, and the sauce is ground by hand in a mortar, so it needs no cooking at all. Why This Recipe Works Grinding the basil in a mortar tastes …
Tajarin with butter and truffle is fresh egg noodles in a creamy Parmesan sauce, topped with white Alba truffle, ready in about 20 minutes. It feeds 4 and works as a special-occasion plate that takes almost no effort. Why This Recipe Works The sauce is only butter, cream, Parmesan and a little pasta water, so …
