🍽️ Italian Dinner Recipes
Discover authentic Italian dinner recipes. Discover easy weeknight dinners and impressive weekend meals. From 30-minute pasta dishes to slow-cooked comfort food, find your next favorite dinner recipe.
Lemon Pasta Sauce
This lemon pasta sauce tossed with hot noodles features a rich, tangy blend of butter, beef broth, and cream flavored with lemon juice and lime zest.
Busy Mom Lasagna
Layers of egg noodles, ground beef, and cheese are slow-cooked to gooey perfection in this version of lasagna for busy moms.
Tortellini Skewers
This tortellini skewer recipe features tortellini and cherry tomatoes with pesto, skewered on toothpicks for a 3-ingredient appetizer ready in 25 minutes.
Pasta with Italian Sausage and Pumpkin Sauce
This pasta with Italian sausage and pumpkin sauce recipe uses campanelle (trumpet-shaped pasta) tossed in a creamy sauce with Italian sausage and pumpkin.
Ranch, Bacon, and Parmesan Pasta Salad
This tangy, crunchy-crisp, savory chilled ranch, bacon, and Parmesan pasta salad recipe is a flavorful change of pasta to the usual pasta side salad.
Creamy Pasta Bake with Cherry Tomatoes and Basil
This creamy pasta bake is easy to make with penne, cherry tomatoes, basil, Parmesan, and mozzarella for a comforting weeknight vegetarian pasta dish.
Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad
This is a flavorful bacon ranch pasta salad with crispy bits of bacon that complement tomato, cheese, and the creamy dressing. Perfect for any party!
Cabbage Lasagna
This very filling, low-carb lasagna recipe uses cabbage leaves in place of lasagna noodles. You may find it every bit as good if not better than traditional lasagna.
Italian Lemon Ice
Whether or not you top this easy-to-make 4- or 5-ingredient Italian lemon ice recipe with raspberry-flavored liqueur, it's perfect for the dog days.
Special Italian Meat
Golden brown beef cubes are braised with Italian-inspired spices in a sherry and tomato sauce in this straightforward dish.
Hearty Italian Meatball Soup
This hearty Italian meatball soup recipe is brothy, rich, cheesy, and satisfying. It is pure comfort in a bowl. Use any small pasta you have on hand.
Sicilian Anchovy Pasta
Anchovy pasta made with spaghetti tossed in hot garlic oil with anchovies. Top with bread crumbs, parsley, and Parmesan for a sensational Sicilian meal.
Cajun Pastalaya
This one-pot pastalaya dish is made with all the ingredients you'd expect in jambalaya but uses pasta instead of rice for a delicious dinner.
Orzo with Parmesan and Basil
This Parmesan orzo is sautéed in butter, simmered in chicken stock, then mixed with Parmesan cheese and fresh basil for an easy, flavorful side dish.
Chicken Parmesan
For the best chicken Parmesan, try Chef John's version that's pan-fried and then baked, delivering impressive results with a crispier crust than most recipes.
Cheese Ravioli with Pumpkin Sauce
Store-bought fresh or frozen cheese ravioli is topped with a sweet, homemade pumpkin sauce and Parmesan cheese, making it a warm and comforting recipe.
Italian Sausage-Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
You can make this Italian sausage and rice-stuffed cabbage rolls recipe with mild or spicy sausage. It is easy to make and is bursting with Italian flavor.
Italian Pasta Salad
This Italian pasta salad with salami, mozzarella, bell pepper, and rotini pasta tossed in zesty Italian dressing is sure to be a summer favorite.
World's Best Lasagna
This lasagna recipe from John Chandler is our most popular recipe! With sausage, ground beef, basil, and 3 types of cheese, it lives up to its name!
Pasta Bake
No one can resist when this hearty, cheesy, saucy, ground meat and pasta bake arrives at the table. The satisfying recipe comes together quickly, too.
Parmesan-Crusted Au Gratin Potatoes and Onion
This recipe for potatoes and onions mixed with a creamy cheese sauce and baked with a crispy cheese topping is a terrific side dish.
Grandma Becky's Pasta Salad
Grandma Becky's pasta salad recipe includes dill pickles, which lend a tangy, crunchy bite to this cheesy pasta salad, is perfect for picnics and BBQs.
Spinach Basil Pesto
This tasty spinach pesto is easy to make by blending fresh spinach and basil with lemon juice, lemon zest, garlic, olive oil, and Parmesan cheese.
Garlic-Parmesan Wing Sauce
This garlic-Parmesan sauce is made in one bowl with just five simple pantry ingredients for a deliciously different savory sauce for chicken wings.