Easy Italian dinners.
Pasta, risotto and baked dinners that respect the Italian rule: few ingredients, treated well. Most of these are one pot plus a colander. All 22 Italian recipes in the library serve four, starting at 20 minutes — the same dinners Gaston plans weeks from in the app.
ItalianSpaghetti with Pork Ragu and Pangrattato
Ground pork simmered in a thick tomato sauce with sauteed onions and peppers, tossed with spaghetti. Crowned with pangrattato — golden, smoky breadcrumbs tossed with parmesan.
ItalianCreamy Bacon Tortelloni
Crisp bacon, filled pasta, and a cream sauce loosened with pasta water. Fifteen minutes of actual work.
ItalianCrisp Prosciutto Rigatoni with Spinach
Prosciutto crisped like bacon, tossed through rigatoni with blistered tomatoes and melting goat cheese.
ItalianGnocchi with Tomato and Mozzarella
Gnocchi crisped in the pan rather than boiled, folded through a quick tomato sauce with mozzarella melting into it.
ItalianShrimp Scampi Linguine
Garlicky, buttery shrimp with white wine and lemon over linguine. Ready before the oven would even preheat.
ItalianSpaghetti Carbonara
The real thing: eggs and pecorino whipped into a glossy sauce by the pasta water alone, with crisp bacon and a lot of black pepper.
ItalianChicken Alfredo
Seared chicken through a parmesan sauce that comes together from pasta water and cheese rather than a tub of cream.
ItalianChicken Piccata with Orzo and Asparagus
Tender pan-seared chicken in a lemon-caper butter sauce over orzo. Bright, punchy, ready in 30.
ItalianCreamy Chicken Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes & Pecorino
Chicken thigh cubes simmered with cherry tomatoes, onion, and grated carrot in an Italian-spiced butter base, finished with crème fraîche and tossed with penne. Topped with finely grated pecorino romano and fresh basil leaves.
ItalianCreamy Pesto Chicken Spaghetti
Pesto loosened with cream and pasta water into a sauce that actually clings. Spinach and zucchini disappear into it.
ItalianSage Pork Chop with Linguine
Pork chops fried with sage in butter, served over linguine in a quick garlic tomato sauce.
ItalianChicken Tortelloni Bake
Filled pasta, chicken and creamy tomato baked under parmesan in one dish. Twenty minutes of work, then the oven does it.
ItalianItalian Sausage and Peppers over Polenta
Blistered sweet peppers and onion with juicy sausage, piled over creamy polenta. Rustic and fast.
ItalianItalian Meatball Sub
Meatballs simmered in tomato, packed into a roll and blistered under melted mozzarella. Messy on purpose.
ItalianMeatballs in Cream Sauce with Rigatoni
Browned meatballs in a tomato-cream sauce that coats every tube of rigatoni. The one that empties the pan.
ItalianMushroom Risotto
Mushrooms browned hard first, then stirred through a proper risotto. Twenty minutes of standing at the stove, and worth it.
ItalianSausage Risotto with Roasted Tomatoes
Creamy risotto studded with browned Italian sausage, topped with tomatoes roasted until they burst.
ItalianChicken Parmesan
Crisp breaded chicken under bubbling mozzarella and tomato sauce, with spaghetti to catch what escapes.
ItalianItalian Meatballs with Pepperoni Tomato Sauce
Beef meatballs browned hard, then simmered in a tomato sauce with sliced pepperoni for smoky depth. Served over spaghetti.
ItalianSkillet Lasagna
All of lasagna's layers, built in one pan on the hob in forty-five minutes instead of two hours in the oven.
ItalianSpinach and Ricotta Pasta Bake
Pasta folded through ricotta and spinach, baked under mozzarella until the top blisters. The one everyone eats without complaint.
ItalianWeeknight Spaghetti Bolognese
A quick take on the Italian classic. Deeply savory beef ragu served over spaghetti with plenty of parmesan.