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101 Italian Recipes to Make for Dinner Tonight

Craving Italian? We've got you covered with our favorite pastas, pizzas, soups, roasts, and more.

By Katherine Sacks

February 5, 2018

Pasta with 10minute pesto in a blue bowl.

Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Kat Boytsova
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Pasta With 10-Minute Pesto
Blanching fresh basil leaves before blending is the key to this vibrant, ultra-herby pesto. Perfect for pasta, it also dresses up pizza, scrambled eggs, and more.
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Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Alex Brannian, Food Styling by Grace Parisi
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Bucatini All'Amatriciana
It's hard not to love this classic Italian pasta—it's just the right mix of spicy and sweet.
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Polenta Cacio e Pepe
Your favorite Roman pasta is just as decadent, dreamy, and delicious in polenta form.
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Pasta al Pomodoro
Unlike marinara, which is usually hit hard with herbs and other aromatics, this classic sauce is all about the tomatoes.
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Gramma Pandolfi's Pasta Sauce with Meatballs
When only the most supreme of comfort foods will do, there's pasta with meat sauce.
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Roasted Cherry Tomato Caprese
The classic tomato and mozz summer salad gets a roasty cold-weather makeover.
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White Pizza With Shaved Vegetables and Pesto
This so-good-you-won't-believe-it's-healthy pie is covered in pesto and cheese and then topped with a veritable salad of peas, crisp asparagus ribbons, zucchini, leeks, and watercress.
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Caesar Salad
It it Italian? Mexican? American? It's actually all three. Get the story (and the recipe) by clicking through.
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Nicole Franzen
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Weeknight Porchetta
Porchetta sure is delicious, but it also takes some serious time to make. This satisfying recipe produces all the flavor of traditional porchetta (thanks to a bacon wrap) in much less time.
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Bucatini With Lemony Carbonara
Lemon makes the perfect foil for carbonara’s salty richness. You may never go back.
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Spring Risotto
A last-minute addition of basil pesto turns creamy risotto into the ultimate bowl of spring comfort.
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Bucatini with Butter-Roasted Tomato Sauce
Roasting intensifies the flavor of canned tomatoes.
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Radicchio and Citrus Salad with Burrata
This bright, creamy salad will make for an elegant part of your dinner spread.
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Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott
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The Ultimate Bolognese Sauce
Bolognese is a hearty sauce that needs a toothy, wide noodle like fresh pappardelle, or a sturdy dried shape like rigatoni.
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Katherine Sacks is a New York City-based writer, editor, and recipe developer (with a special interest in baking and vegetarian cuisine), focused on the connections between food culture, food pathways, sustainability, and the environment. Her previous roles include acting as the Digital Content Manager for FoodPrint.com, traveling the country as ... Read More

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