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Baked Ziti
Tip: To freeze, prepare the ziti but do not bake. Cover it tightly with foil and freeze. Bake frozen ziti uncovered at 350°F. For 1 hour or until hot and bubbling. Or refrigerate frozen ziti for 24 hours to thaw. Bake thawed ziti uncovered at 350°F. For 45 minutes or until hot and bubbling.
Tip: For 8 servings, double the recipe. Spoon into a 3-quart shallow baking dish and bake for 45 minutes or until hot and bubbling.
27 Easy Italian Recipes That Taste Like A Restaurant's
There's a reason Italian food is so popular in America: It's just flat-out delicious. Whether a recipe is exactly like one you'd find an Italian Nonna making in Italy or an Italian-American dish created by immigrants, the combinations of flavors the Italians have perfected over centuries appeal to all.
These easy restaurant-inspired Italian recipes range from irresistible tomato, cheese, and pasta casseroles and flavorful soups to everyone's favorite spaghetti and meatballs. Add a few of these recipes to your rotation and transform your dining room into an Italian trattoria.
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Get Recipe: Baked Ziti
Baked ziti has many of the attributes you love about lasagna but with less fuss. Choose your favorite—ground pork, beef, or veal—for this version that's bursting with mozzarella, ricotta, and Parmesan. Use store-bought or homemade pasta sauce.
Simply Recipes / Photo by Rachel Vanni / Food Styling by Tiffany Schleigh
Get Recipe: The Easy Italian Soup I'm Making All Winter Long
"For this simplified version, I'm just using onions and garlic, but celery and carrots are common in other versions of Italian wedding soup. To make prep even easier, use store-bought mirepoix." —Stephanie A. Ganz, Recipe Developer
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Get Recipe: Caponata Pasta
"Roasting all of the vegetables together in an olive oil, vinegar, honey, and tomato paste mixture results in the same rich flavor profile. The recipe becomes really hands-off once you put the sheet pan in the oven, and your kitchen will start to smell like a Sicilian villa." —Julie & Amy Luxemberg, Recipe Developers
Simply Recipes / Elise Bauer
Get Recipe: Pasta Puttanesca
This quick puttanesca uses pantry staples: canned tomato paste, crushed tomatoes, canned anchovies, and jarred olives and capers. Garlic, onion, and oregano season the sauce that's traditionally served with spaghetti.
Simply Recipes / Coco Morante
Get Recipe: Chicken Scarpariello
"Chicken scarpariello is an Italian American dish served in many restaurants on the East Coast. It's a hearty braised combination of chicken and sausages with peppers, onions, and often potatoes, all cooked together in a slightly tangy, vinegar-spiked sauce." —Coco Morante, Recipe Developer
Simply Recipes / Elise Bauer
Get Recipe: Italian Meatballs
Meatballs don't have to be the partner to pasta or a hot sandwich filling—they can be a dish all of their own. Made with ground beef and pork, ricotta, Parmesan, fresh bread soaked in warm milk, and the rest of the usual meatball ingredient suspects, these tuck nicely into homemade or store-bought sauce to finish cooking.
Simply Recipes / Ciara Kehoe
Get Recipe: The Classic Italian Family Recipe You Need To Make
"While Paula likes to serve the gnudi with olive oil and Parmesan cheese, she says serving it with your favorite marinara is also a delicious and perfectly lovely option! About 1/4 cup per 3 or 4 gnudi is a good place to start." —Sara Haas, Recipe Developer
Simply Recipes / Laurel Randolph
Get Recipe: This 30-Minute Meal Is a Weekly Staple for My Italian Family
"Something about the combination of classic ingredients like good quality olive oil, punchy garlic, bitter escarole, tender cannellini beans, and plenty of Parmesan makes this pure Italian comfort food. And the savory, garlicky broth is perfect for mopping up with bread. " —Julie & Amy Luxemberg, Recipe Developers
Simply Recipes / Sally Vargas
Get Recipe: Classic Bolognese Sauce
A good Bolognese sauce is a thing of great beauty. Simmer slowly for 2 hours with onions, carrots, celery, clove, cinnamon, tomatoes, milk, and meat such as beef or pork. Serve it over fresh pasta or your favorite cooked dried pasta.
Simply Recipes / Alison Bickel
Get Recipe: Chicken Vesuvio
"Chicken Vesuvio is an Italian-American restaurant classic that just happens to be a one-pan meal you can easily make at home. Who could say no to crispy chicken thighs, potato wedges, and peas drizzled in a lemony garlic white wine sauce?" —Liz Tarpy, Recipe Developer
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Get Recipe: Pasta e Ceci
"Chickpeas not only add a pop of texture and protein but also act as a thickener. The tomato-rich broth is imparted with the salty, savory flavor of Parmesan and earthy rosemary. Trust me: Every spoonful tastes like a big, warm Italian hug." —Sheela Prakash, Recipe Developer
Simply Recipes / Elise Bauer
Get Recipe: Risi e Bisi, Italian Rice and Peas
Risi e bisi is Italian for rice and peas. This Venetian, risotto-like dish also has ham, either in the form of diced prosciutto or other dry ham, and gets finished with plenty of Parmesan cheese and parsley.
Simply Recipes / Ciara Kehoe
Get Recipe: Spaghetti and Meatballs
Adding mushrooms keeps these beef and pork meatballs from drying out. Cremini mushrooms are in both the meatballs and the sauce. Spoon over pasta and make everyone happy!
Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek
Get Recipe: Chicken Romano
"Chicken Romano is a variation of a breaded chicken cutlet. The secret ingredient is Pecorino Romano, which is added to the breading—this is how Grandma Hope made her cutlets. She would start with plain breadcrumbs and season them with Pecorino and dried herbs." —Theodora Kaloudis, Recipe Developer
Simply Recipes / Ciara Kehoe
Get Recipe: Eggplant Parmesan
When you need to serve a crowd, go for the classic. As opposed to frying on the stovetop, these eggplant rounds are roasted in the oven before assembling the casserole, which makes far less of a mess. Don't skip salting the eggplant first to drain its moisture, or you'll end up with a soggy mess.
Simply Recipes / Alison Bickel
Get Recipe: Spaghetti Aglio e Olio (Pasta With Garlic and Oil)
"Aglio e olio translates literally to garlic and olive oil, the essential ingredients in the recipe. It's a dish with apparent roots in Naples, Italy, but can be found on dinner plates all over the country. It's uncommonly tasty and satisfying, thanks to the pronounced but well-balanced flavors of garlic and chiles." —Katie Morford, Recipe Developer
Simply Recipes / Elise Bauer
Get Recipe: Classic Minestrone Soup
Italians have as many recipes for minestrone as they have individual families—it's that customizable. This version has the trio of carrots, celery, and onion of course, and also fennel, potatoes, cabbage, zucchini, and tomato plus white beans. Pasta is optional but recommended.
Simply Recipes / Sara Haas
Get Recipe: Chicken Marsala
"The chicken is cooked in a hot skillet with a bit of oil or butter and then served with a pan sauce made with Marsala wine. Today, most chicken Marsala is served with pasta, but risotto, mashed potatoes, or roasted potatoes are also excellent accompaniments." —Sara Haas, Recipe Developer
Simply Recipes / Sally Vargas
Get Recipe: Potato Gnocchi From Scratch
Gnocchi is easy to make and needs no special equipment. Bake potatoes, then mash them and work in flour, egg yolks, and salt. Roll into long cylinders and cut into 1-inch pieces. Then cook or freeze to serve with any sauce—I particularly love gnocchi with butternut squash Parmesan sauce.
Simply Recipes / Shilpa Iyer
Get Recipe: Easy Tuscan Ribollita Soup
"My recipe is called "easy" to highlight ease—it comes together in just over 30 minutes and is super versatile. It serves as a loose guide that allows you to use what you have in your pantry." —Devan Grimsrud, Recipe Developer
Simply Recipes / Elise Bauer
Get Recipe: The Best Osso Buco
This Italian dish of braised veal shanks gets the flavor for its rich sauce from the marrow of the shank bone. Brown the shanks in fat rendered from pancetta and then sauté carrots, celery, and onion in the fat of both. Then add wine and simmer it all for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. It's not difficult, but it does take time. Serve with gremolata.
Simply Recipes / Hannah Zimmerman
Get Recipe: Italian Butter Chicken (Petti Di Pollo al Burro)
"The best way to serve petti di pollo is over pasta with some lemon slices and chopped parsley. I recommend using a long noodle like spaghetti, fettuccine, or pappardelle. The parsley is optional, but I love the touch of freshness it adds to this dish." —Hannah Zimmerman, Recipe Developer
Simply Recipes / Sheryl Julian
Get Recipe: Easy Tuscan Bean Soup
In Italy, simmering pots of soup are plentiful in homes throughout the country. This version makes use of canned beans to make a little less work of it all, but it's still a robust Italian-inspired soup with plenty of vegetables that begs for a topping of Parmesan cheese.
Simply Recipes / Michelle Becker
Get Recipe: Chicken Piccata
While this may not be a traditional dish from Italy, it's inspired by its flavors and served in many Italian restaurants. It's so easy and quick to put together that you'll serve it often. Cook flour-dredged thin chicken breasts in olive oil, white wine, and chicken stoc; squeeze in some lemon; and throw on handfuls of beautiful, briny capers. In about 30 minutes, you'll have all the yumminess!
Simply Recipes / Elise Bauer
Get Recipe: Linguine With Clam Sauce
This red-sauced version of the classic Italian American linguine dish uses both fresh and canned clams. It gets a punch of flavor from some fennel and a little dash of anise liqueur. Serve with crusty Italian bread to sop up all the yummy sauce.
Simply Recipes / Elise Bauer
Get Recipe: Pasta e Fagioli
This traditional peasant soup is full of beans and pasta plus vegetables and tomatoes. Made with chicken stock, leftovers get thicker after refrigeration because the pasta absorbs the stock, but it's still delicious either way.
Simply Recipes / Cambrea Bakes
Get Recipe: The Best Homemade Lasagna
Easy in the eye of the beholder, right? Some may find building this lasagna from scratch easier than buying a sub-par store-bought version that's so very disappointing. Taking the time to make this ooey, gooey, scrumptious lasagna does not disappoint, especially if you freeze half of it (it freezes really well) and have a second lasagna dinner with no work at all!
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