1Chicken Parmesan
Though we’ve done it many different ways here, this classic recipe is the chosen one, the holy grail. It has everything you want in chicken Parm, full stop—fried cutlets shrieking with crispiness, a perfect blend of mozzarella and Parm, and a sauce that is full of life with basil and just enough sweetness.
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2Chopped Sandwich
PHOTO: BRYAN GARDNER; FOOD STYLING: BROOKE CAISON
Imagine not having to unhinge your jaw like a snake to enjoy your favorite Italian deli hero. This chopped sandwich is here to turn that dream into a reality. Turns out, running a knife through your sandwich ingredients before piling them into a roll makes the whole ordeal of crushing a big hoagie a lot easier to manage!
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3Grilled Plum & Pancetta Panzanella Salad
PHOTO: RACHEL VANNI; FOOD STYLING: TAYLOR ANN SPENCER4Sunday Sauce
PHOTO: LUCY SCHAEFFER, FOOD STYLING: BROOKE CAISON
In this sauce, the meatballs are so tender, little bits break off into the sauce as they simmer away, pork ribs fall off the bone indicating peak sauce richness, and delightful oily puddles pool at the top of the pot only to be folded in at the end for maximum umami.
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5Spaghetti All’Assassina
PHOTO: RACHEL VANNI; FOOD STYLING BARRETT WASHBURNE
This is like the OG one-pot pasta. The spaghetti is cooked in a spicy tomato broth in a style similar to risotto and charred in the pan as the broth gets absorbed. And when we say charred, we mean burnt. Trust us, the rich tomato, burned starch, and spicy mess of it all is absolutely delicious.
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6Caprese Chicken Saltimbocca
erik bernstein
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7Homemade Gnocchi
PHOTO: ANDREW BUI; FOOD STYLING: MAKINZE GORE
If making homemade pasta seems like too much of a process, then gnocchi is the easy pasta to try making yourself. This rustic, dumpling-like pasta is much easier to make and shape by hand than ravioli, and once made, you can use it with countless recipes and sauces.
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8Grandma Pizza
PHOTO: ROCKY LUTEN; FOOD STYLING: BROOKE CAISON
Grandma pizza has a thin, crispy crust topped first with cheese, then dolloped with a garlicky tomato sauce. It’s not the usual way of assembling pizza, but the cheese melting right into the crust really makes some magic happen.
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9Cacio E Pepe Chicken
PHOTO: JULIA GARTLAND; FOOD STYLIST: BROOKE CAISON10Burrata Pizza Sandwiches
PHOTO: JULIA GARTLAND; FOOD STYLING: ADRIENNE ANDERSON
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11Caprese Salad
PHOTO: JOSEPH DE LEO; FOOD STYLING: TAYLOR ANN SPENCER
Hailing from the island of Capri and mirroring the colors of the Italian flag, the simple Caprese salad is one of our favorite ways to show off those juicy, in-season farmers’ market tomatoes by complementing them with fresh basil and creamy mozzarella.
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12Chicken Florentine Pasta
PHOTO: RACHEL VANNI; FOOD STYLING: BROOKE CAISON
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13Best Homemade Lasagna
PHOTO: ERIK BERNSTEIN; FOOD STYLING: BROOKE CAISON
Based on the traditional lasagna alla Bolognese from the Emilia-Romagna province in Italy, we grabbed what we loved most about the timeless, classic recipe and simplified it to make it weeknight-friendly. This lasagna can be eaten for any occasion from family Sunday dinner to lunch with friends over a pitcher of sangria.
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14Chicken Piccata
PHOTO: ROCKY LUTEN; FOOD STYLING: SPENCER RICHARDS
A classic recipe, chicken piccata combines thin and delicate chicken breasts with a tart white wine, lemon juice, and buttery cream sauce topped with briny capers. Its ability to be ready and on the table in 30 minutes makes it an easy sell, whether you’re serving up a dinner party or a simple weekly dinner.
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15Italian Sausage & Pepper Frittata Affogato
Lucy schaeffer
Breakfast meets dinner in this marinara- and mozzarella-topped dish. Fittingly, the Italian word “affogato” means drowned, which explains the marinara topping. It lends this dish a vibe somewhere between a breakfast frittata and pizza, meaning it’s enjoyable for pretty much any meal of the day.
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16Copycat Carbone Spicy Rigatoni
ERIK BERNSTEIN
Every dish at Carbone, the nouveau red sauce joint in lower Manhattan, is a mind-bendingly delicious, updated take on Italian American classics, though none may be more famous than the Spicy Rigatoni, which features their version of a booze-spiked vodka sauce. Here’s our version.
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17Stromboli
PHOTO: ERIK BERNSTEIN; FOOD STYLING: BROOKE CAISON
Move over calzones—homemade strombolis are our new dream handheld weeknight dinner. We packed ours full of pepperoni, salami, and two types of cheese, but the options are truly endless when it comes to customizing this Italian-American dish.
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18Best-Ever Italian Meatballs
Parker Feierbach
There’s an art to a great meatball. It should be nicely round, packed with flavor, and tender throughout. Making them from scratch is really easy and definitely beats anything you’d buy at the store. If you want a more hands-off approach, try baked meatballs!
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19Pasta Alla Gricia
PHOTO: ROCKY LUTEN; FOOD STYLING: ADRIENNE ANDERSON20Skillet Chicken Cacciatore
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