Italian Recipes
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Smoked-Fish Risotto
Risi Bisi
This Italian dish, featuring rice and fresh peas, is a simple primed for weeknight. Ready in 30 minutes, it requires attention at the stove, but only for a brief period. The result is a tender risotto, studded with prosciutto and peas, and brightened with herbs and lemon.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Buckwheat Biscotti
These biscotti have a crumbly texture when they emerge from the first baking, so allow the logs to cool and cut them carefully, about 1/2 inch thick (if you cut them too thin they can fall apart). Buckwheat flour is a great backdrop for the chocolate; it doesn’t dominate but seems rather to show off the chocolate.
Italian Pot Roast (Stracotto)
Pot roasts exist in many cuisines, of course, and the Italians have stracotto, which means "overcooked." Like many other roasts, this one cooks low and slow after it’s seared. But here, red wine adds depth to the tomatoes, and a smattering of fresh basil contributes to its complexity. Make this for your next Sunday supper, or on a cold winter evening.
Pan-Seared Scallops With Cabernet Risotto And Lemon Broth
Nougat Semifreddo
Tom Colicchio's Summer Minestrone
This soup is flexible because the list of ingredients isn't fixed. If you can't find an ingredient, skip that item or substitute something similar. It is important to include the escarole, however. It adds a certain bitterness and gives character to the mixture. Once the soup is done, you could refrigerate it overnight (or up to a few days) and serve it cold. In that case, it's best to wait to cook and chill the fava beans, peas, green beans and wax beans, and add them, along with basil and olive oil, and even some tomato if you like, just before serving.
La Vignarola Roman-Style Spring-Vegetable Stew
Pasta With Bread Crumbs and Anchovies, Sicilian Style
Here's a delightfully simple yet deeply flavorful Sicilian-style pasta sauce from Paula Wolfert, the prolific Mediterranean cookbook author. As you wait for your pasta to cook, sauté a garlic clove in a good bit of olive oil, then discard the clove. Toss in two cans of anchovy fillets and mash them with the back of your spoon until they dissolve into a fragrant sauce. Drain the pasta, then combine it with the anchovy sauce and serve. Sprinkle with chopped fresh parsley for color and toasted bread crumbs for crunch. If you're serving this as a main course, double the recipe, for four generous servings.
Braised Octopus
Brother Bandera's Italian Easter Bread
Cannelloni With Bitter Greens and Artichoke Saute
Pasta With Zucchini, Shrimp and Saffron
Black Olive Gnocchi With Tomatoes and Basil
The eye can influence wine choices almost as easily as the nose or the palate. Snowy little pillows of gnocchi often suggest a white wine, but before me was a plate of dusky ones, darkened with black olive paste. The dish demanded a red wine, one with rustic heft. Black olive gnocchi is a highlight at La Terrazza, the restaurant at the Splendido Hotel in Portofino, Italy, where I opted for a local red, a Rossese di Dolceacqua, alongside. The preparation is simple and will be successful as long as you apply a light touch.
Florence Fabricant's Basic Pizza Dough
Aunt Victoria's Biscotti
Lemon-Gin Granita
Roman Lamb
Sam Hayward's Pasta With Goat Cheddar And Smoked Mussels
Strawberry Granita
Ramp Focaccia
Quail With Fregola and Olives
Veering from quail, you could serve the fregola, scooped from the pot without baking, alongside lamb chops or a roast. As for those figs, they’ll honor a wedge of sharp cheese, with the last of the wine.
Fresh Pea And Morel-Mushroom Risotto With Grilled Quail
Basic Dough for Fresh Egg Pasta
Fresh pasta isn’t something you can master in one go. There’s a learning curve. Only experience can teach you how the dough should feel and how thin to roll it. (Not that it needs to be rolled by hand with a rolling pin. A hand-crank pasta machine is a fine tool, perfect for a small batch.) But pasta making isn’t rocket science either. Most competent home cooks will succeed, even if they never match the prowess of mythic Italian nonnas. Fresh homemade egg pasta is definitely worth the effort, though, and it is always better than commercially produced versions.