Italian food has a lot of fans, as is clearly evident when glancing over a list of the Serious Eats recipes that have been saved the most with MyRecipes, our free tool for saving and organizing recipes: Many of the top recipes overall are Italian or Italian-American. We’ve got no arguments with that love—everyone on our staff cooks Italian food often, for quick weeknight dinners, special occasions, and everything in between. So dive into our list of most-saved Italian and Italian-American recipes. You might just find a new favorite.
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Serious Eats / Daniel Gritzer
Frequently served with penne, positively magical with rigatoni, this vodka sauce is a powerhouse of tomato flavor smoothed over with the silky richness of heavy cream. Oh, and by the way: This is our most saved Italian recipe and our second-most saved recipe overall, right behind our famous roast potatoes.
Get Recipe: Penne alla Vodka
02 of 10
Serious Eats / Frederick Hardy II, Prop Stylist: Christina Daley, Food Stylist: Margaret Dickey
This one-pan chicken saltimbocca features prosciutto-draped chicken, crisp sage, and a lemony white wine sauce—all ready in under an hour. It’s a quick dinner that’s worked-all-day impressive.
Get Recipe: Chicken Saltimbocca
03 of 10
Serious Eats / Vicky Wasik
Add this tomatoey Roman-style pasta sauce to your arsenal of recipes you can make from a small handful of pantry staples.
Get Recipe: Roman-Style Spaghetti Alla Carrettiera (Tomato, Tuna, and Mushroom Pasta)
04 of 10
Serious Eats / Melissa Hom
Pasta puttanesca is an easy weeknight spaghetti dish that packs an aromatic punch in its tomato sauce, thanks to garlic, anchovies, capers, and olives. FWIW, this is hands-down my favorite quick weeknight pasta, and one of my favorites regardless of how much time I have.
Get Recipe: Spaghetti Puttanesca (Spaghetti With Capers, Olives, and Anchovies)
05 of 10
Serious Eats / Julia Estrada
Pasta, black pepper, and Pecorino Romano join together to form one of the best Roman pasta dishes. Here’s how to perfect it, every time. Try this recipe from Kenji, or dig into Daniel’s cacio e pepe recipe for a clever trick for making sauce that doesn’t clump. Or try them both—can you ever have too much cacio e pepe?
Get Recipe: Kenji’s Cacio e Pepe
Get Recipe: Daniel’s Cacio e Pepe
06 of 10
Serious Eats / Julia Estrada
Chicken scarpariello, the Italian-American dish of chicken braised with sausage and peppers in a sweet-and-sour sauce, is one of those perfect weeknight meals.
Get Recipe: Chicken Scarpariello (Braised Chicken With Sausage and Peppers)
07 of 10
Serious Eats / Amanda Suarez
Fresh tomato, basil, olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, and breadcrumbs are all you need to whip up this rapid, wonderfully fresh Sicilian pasta sauce. Note: This is best in summer, when tomatoes are at their peak (use the MyRecipes save function to dog-ear it until it’s that time of year).
Get Recipe: Sicilian-Style Spaghetti Alla Carrettiera (Fresh Tomato and Garlic Sauce)
08 of 10
Serious Eats / Amanda Suarez
This meatballs-and-greens version of Italian wedding soup is an Italian-American classic. We also have a recipe for the original Neapolitan Italian wedding soup. Give each a try—they’re both delicious, and I say this as someone who was in the Serious Eats kitchen when Daniel was making them for the photoshoot.
Get Recipe: Italian-American Wedding Soup
Get Recipe: Minestra Maritata (Italian Wedding Soup)
09 of 10
Fried zucchini turns into a creamy sauce for this iconic Amalfi Coast spaghetti dish. And, yes, it is indeed creamy zucchini spaghetti that Stanley Tucci famously loves.
Get Recipe: Spaghetti Alla Nerano (Zucchini Pasta)
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Serious Eats / Vicky Wasik
Quick, easy, and delicious, shrimp scampi makes an excellent dinner with or without pasta. To get the most flavor in this shrimp scampi, Daniel uses vermouth instead of white wine and a fragrant mix of parsley, tarragon, and chives.
Get Recipe: Shrimp Scampi With Garlic, Red Pepper Flakes, and Herbs
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