🍽️ Italian Dinner Recipes

No-Tomato Pasta Sauce

Made without tomatoes, this pasta sauce gets its color from puréed carrots and beets. Use it on pasta and pizza as a nice alternative to tomato sauce.

⏱️ 55 min 🔥 Medio 👥 8

Italian Sausage Spaghetti Squash

In this easy Italian sausage spaghetti squash recipe, spaghetti squash replaces standard pasta for a cheesy, gluten-free dinner with Italian sausage.

⏱️ 120 min 💪 Difficile 👥 12

Baked Flounder with Panko and Parmesan

This flounder recipe is simple and made with tender flounder fillets coated with a crispy, buttery panko Parmesan topping that bakes in 15 minutes.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medio 👥 4

Strawberry Bruschetta

This strawberry bruschetta recipe creates a delicious variation on the popular tomato-based version, especially when the sugar topping caramelizes.

⏱️ 15 min ⚡ Facile 👥 12

Rachel's Pizza Pasta Salad

Pizza toppings like olives, pepperoni, cheese, green peppers, and onions star in this pasta salad, perfect for a potluck or picnic.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medio 👥 8

Red Pepper Tomato Pasta Bake

Marinara sauce gets blended with spicy peppers and poured over ziti and ground beef in this easy one-pan pasta bake.

⏱️ 50 min 💪 Difficile 👥 8

New Year's "Good Luck" Pasta Fazool

Chef John's New Year's good luck pasta fazool (pasta e fagioli) recipe with bacon, Swiss chard, and cannellini beans will make you feel lucky any time.

⏱️ 65 min 💪 Difficile 👥 6

Voodoo Pasta

Voodoo pasta is ready as quickly as fusilli cooks. Conjure up a spicy Alfredo sauce with blackened smoked sausage, and when the pasta is done, just toss everything together. It's pure magic.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medio 👥 6

A Great Greek Pasta Salad

This make-ahead summer pasta salad with feta cheese, cherry tomatoes, and olives in an herby vinaigrette is full of Greek flavors.

⏱️ 145 min 💪 Difficile 👥 4

Cajun Chicken and Sausage Pasta Recipe

This Cajun chicken and sausage pasta recipe combines Cajun-seasoned grilled chicken, jalapeño sausage, bow tie pasta, and vegetables in a creamy sauce.

⏱️ 70 min 🔥 Medio 👥 2

Perfect Pasta Salad

Crunchy vegetables are tossed with a vegetarian Caesar salad dressing and then spooned into a bowl of cooked pasta and topped with cheese.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medio 👥 10

Curry Chicken Pasta Salad

This curry-flavored pasta salad with chicken recipe can be a complete meal when served over a bed of lettuce and accompanied by warm garlic breadsticks.

⏱️ 215 min 💪 Difficile 👥 6

Easy Inside-Out Ravioli

Ground beef, Cheddar, spinach, and pasta sauce baked with seashell pasta make a tasty dinner that's quick to assemble and quicker to eat.

⏱️ 80 min 🔥 Medio 👥 6

Creamy Butternut Squash Pasta

This butternut squash pasta with tender squash, sage, thyme, and Parmesan cheese in a creamy homemade sauce makes a cozy vegetarian meal in the fall.

⏱️ 35 min 🔥 Medio 👥 8

Cheese Lasagna

This cheese lasagna recipe is an easy vegetarian lasagna with 3 types of Italian cheese: ricotta, mozzarella, and Parmesan. Simple and delicious!

⏱️ 65 min 🔥 Medio 👥 8

Butternut Squash Ravioli with Brown Butter Sauce

This homemade butternut squash ravioli with brown butter sauce recipe, flavored with fresh sage leaves and tarragon, makes the perfect flavor pairing.

⏱️ 105 min 💪 Difficile 👥 6

Air-Fried Italian Stuffed Tomatoes

Garlic, Parmesan cheese, fresh basil, and toasted walnuts turn brown rice into a sensational stuffing in this air-fried Italian stuffed tomatoes recipe.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medio 👥 4

Blackened Salmon Pasta Salad

Blackened salmon takes this pasta salad recipe to another level. The added fresh bell peppers, vegetables, and pineapple makes it even more delicious.

⏱️ 45 min 💪 Difficile 👥 6