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The fabuloso 50: Good Food’s ultimate Italian recipe collection

Cook up an Italian-style feast - or just a simple bowl of pasta - with these much-loved recipes from Good Food’s recipe writers.

50 recipes
Cooking is a love language for Charlotte Ree, who baked lasagne for her neighbours during lockdown.

Charlotte Ree's comforting lasagne

  • 2 hrs +
  • Charlotte Ree
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s beef short-rib ragu.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s beef short-rib ragu

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
RecipeTin Eats’ life-changing 30-minute pizza.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ 30-minute no-yeast pizza will change your life

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Adam Liaw’s Australian bolognese.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s Australian bolognese

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Prawn and chillli linguine,
EASY

Danielle Alvarez’s prawn and chilli linguine breaks all the rules

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Roman-style chicken.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Roman-style chicken drumsticks

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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Adam Liaw’s baked chicken and tomato risotto.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s baked chicken and tomato risotto

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw’s clean-the-fridge pasta bake. Styling by Hannah Meppem.
EASY

Clean-the-fridge pasta bake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Pan-fried garlic bread.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s simple pan-fried garlic bread

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Torta pasqualina (Italian Easter pie).

RecipeTin’s mini Italian pies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • RecipeTin Eats
End-of-summer spaghetti.
EASY

End-of-summer spaghetti with tomatoes

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Tomato risotto finished with stracciatella and parmigiano cheeses.

Tomato and basil risotto

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Grilled, marinated chicken wth salmoriglio. Styling by Hannah Meppem, food preparation by Breesa Swann.
EASY

Grilled, marinated chicken with salmoriglio

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Fried zucchini, mint and chilli salad with taramasalata and bottarga.
EASY

Fried zucchini, mint and chilli salad with taramasalata and bottarga

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Fast four-ingredient pizza with sopressa and tomato.
EASY

Fast four-ingredient pizza with sopressa and tomato

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
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Adam Liaw's baked onion and blue cheese flatbread.

Baked onion, blue cheese and sage pizza recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Don't blitz too much - it's not a green smoothie!
EASY

RecipeTin Eats' pesto

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Guanciale adds richness to this shellfish one-pot wonder.
EASY

Mussels, guanciale and cannellini beans

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Italian chicken with capsicum and summer tomatoes.

Italian chicken with capsicum and summer tomatoes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Italian-style capsicum halves topped with mozzarella, anchovy and basil.
EASY

Peppers Piedmontese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Hetty McKinnon says frozen spinach is the magic ingredient in this simple vegetarian pasta.
EASY

Hetty McKinnon's spinach and walnut pesto pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Hetty McKinnon
Italian-style steak.
EASY

Italian-style steak

  • < 30 mins
Gutting, cleaning and skinning the squid yourself always yields a more tender, tastier outcome, says Karen Martini.

Grilled calamari with lemon puree

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Creamy pasta with sausage.
EASY

Pasta alla Norcina (creamy pasta with sausage)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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Neil Perry's buffalo mozzarella lasagne.

Buffalo mozzarella lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
The can't-be-beat, benchmark Australian-Italian spag bol.

Italian-Australian spaghetti bolognese recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jill Dupleix
Neil Perry's chicken cacciatore.
EASY

Chicken cacciatore

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Oxtail rague pasta.

Oxtail ragu with pappardelle pasta

  • 2 hrs +
Belly porchetta with fennel, sage and chilli.
EASY

Pork belly easy porchetta recipe with fennel, sage and chilli

  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's soft polenta with mascarpone and parmesan

Polenta recipe with mascarpone and parmesan

  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's cacio e pepe pasta.
EASY

Cacio e pepe (cheese and pepper) pasta recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Rosemary and sea salt focaccia.

Dan Lepard's focaccia

  • 2 hrs +
  • Dan Lepard
Mushroom and pea risotto.

Mushroom and pea risotto recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Roman-style pasta: Rigatoni alla Gricia.
EASY

Rigatoni alla gricia

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Affogato
EASY

Chocolate affogato

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
The melted smoked mozzarella will be stringy and delicious.

Eggplant parmigiana recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
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