🍽️ Italian Dinner Recipes

Bryan's Sweet and Hot Tomato Pasta Sauce

A twist on the usual tomato sauce with spicy red chiles and brown sugar.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medio 👥 4

Tex-Mex Pasta Salad

This Tex-Mex pasta salad recipe includes pasta, well-seasoned beef, pickled jalapeños, salsa, Cheddar cheese, and Tex-Mex flavors for a hearty meal.

⏱️ 95 min 💪 Difficile 👥 10

Bread Machine Focaccia

It's simple to make bread machine focaccia dough, then brush it with oil, sprinkle it with fresh rosemary, and bake it until golden brown and delicious.

⏱️ 150 min 💪 Difficile 👥 12

Fra Diavolo Sauce With Pasta

Diavolo sauce is a spicy, garlicky, tomato Italian pasta sauce that's delicious with shellfish; serve over hot linguine for a restaurant-worthy meal.

⏱️ 50 min 🔥 Medio 👥 8

Not Your Usual Pasta Salad

Seashell pasta is tossed with hard-boiled eggs, bacon, Cheddar cheese, colorful vegetables and a creamy dressing. It is perfect for parties and potlucks.

⏱️ 100 min 💪 Difficile 👥 16

Fiesta Pasta Salad with Dill Pickles

This fiesta pasta salad with dill pickles recipe is so colorful when tossed together with lots of crunchy vegetables and a tangy, creamy dressing.

⏱️ 95 min 💪 Difficile 👥 10

Simple Chicken Mayo with Parmesan and Bread Crumbs

This chicken breast recipe with mayonnaise, Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, and herbs is incredibly juicy and delicious, plus quick and easy to make!

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medio 👥 2

Buffalo Chicken Pasta

This stovetop pasta dish offers all the finger-licking good flavors of Buffalo chicken wings without requiring you get your fingers covered in hot sauce.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medio 👥 4

Awesome Pasta Salad

This pasta salad with pepperoni, salami, provolone, bell pepper, olives, and Italian dressing is easy to make ahead for summer picnics or potlucks.

⏱️ 45 min 🔥 Medio 👥 16

Jac's Ground Chicken Lasagna

This ground chicken lasagna may be a little time consuming to prepare but serve it alongside a Caesar salad and some crusty bread, and you'll agree it's worth the wait.

⏱️ 95 min 💪 Difficile 👥 12

Roasted Acorn Squash with Parmesan

Made with simple ingredients in under an hour, this roasted acorn squash with Parmesan cheese makes a perfect weeknight side dish.

⏱️ 55 min 🔥 Medio 👥 2

Festival-Style Grilled Italian Sausage Sandwiches

Inspired by Boston's Italian street festivals, plump sweet or hot Italian sausages are grilled with red peppers and onions, then piled into a toasted sandwich roll.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medio 👥 4

Arugula Salad with Roasted Butternut Squash and Parmesan Cheese

A delicious fall salad with arugula, butternut squash, and shaved Parmesan cheese. Baked butternut squash has a wonderful sweet flavor that pairs well with the greens and cheese.

⏱️ 55 min 🔥 Medio 👥 4

Harvest Pepper and Chicken Pasta

This quick and easy recipe makes a budget-friendly skillet of colorful bell peppers, jarred red sauce, and chicken breast served over pasta.

⏱️ 49 min 🔥 Medio 👥 4

Sweet Italian Green Beans

Crisp bacon, Italian tomatoes, brown sugar, green beans... everyone loves this unusual mixture of ingredients. It usually doesn't last long.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medio 👥 6

Gina's Pasta Salad

Gina's pasta salad recipe is a fine balance of al dente macaroni, crunchy pickles, diced peppers, and carrots in a creamy mayo and sour cream dressing.

⏱️ 45 min 🔥 Medio 👥 8

One Pan Orecchiette Pasta

Orecchiette pasta with spicy Italian sausage, arugula, and Parmesan all feature in this flavorsome meal that's quick and easy to make in one pot.

⏱️ 40 min 🔥 Medio 👥 2

Pulled Pork Pesto Sandwich

This pulled pork pesto sandwich recipe combines pork, onions, peppers, mushrooms, and pesto sauce to create sandwiches hearty enough for big eaters.

⏱️ 270 min 💪 Difficile 👥 8

Tomato and Garlic Pasta

A simple garlic and tomato pasta recipe made with fresh tomatoes will become a favorite, go-to dish in summer because of its light, bright flavors.

⏱️ 45 min 🔥 Medio 👥 4

Creamy Spinach Tortellini

Cheese tortellini is a family-favorite meal, especially when it's tossed with tomatoes, mushrooms, and spinach in a super rich and creamy sauce.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medio 👥 4

Campanelle Pasta with Turkey Bacon

Campanelle pasta is tossed with a turkey bacon, spinach, and tomato mixture and cheese for this easy weeknight recipe.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medio 👥 6

The Best Parmesan Chicken Bake

This chicken bake offers the same flavors as chicken Parmesan but without breading and frying for an easy, irresistibly saucy and cheesy meal.

⏱️ 50 min 🔥 Medio 👥 6

Spinach and Ricotta Tortellini

This spinach and ricotta tortellini recipe is made with spinach pasta, fresh spinach, whole-milk ricotta, grated Parmesan cheese, and grated nutmeg.

⏱️ 105 min 💪 Difficile 👥 16

Suki's Spinach and Feta Pasta

Penne pasta mingles with onion, garlic, tomatoes, mushrooms, wilted spinach and feta with a dash of red pepper flakes for zip.

⏱️ 40 min 🔥 Medio 👥 4