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A focaccia-like rectangular pizza topped in the Sicilian order of cheese before sauce, with mozzarella, a tomato and onion sauce, and optional anchovies over a golden, crisp-bottomed crust. Pizza seasoning, fresh herbs and a drizzle of olive oil finish the pie.
Main ingredient: king arthur high-gluten flour
HB-8257 · Hand-built original
Fettuccine tossed with sautéed zucchini, onion, garlic, butter, lemon and Parmesan.
Main ingredient: zucchini
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-4553 · Hand-built original
Simple flour-and-water gnocchi in a quick cherry tomato, garlic and anchovy sauce, with a bitter-leaf, fennel and orange salad on the side. Light, fast and very Italian.
Main ingredient: serve
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-18082 · Hand-built original
Fettuccine tossed in a butter and olive oil sauce with garlic, shallot and white wine, finished with lemon juice, zest and parmesan.
Main ingredient: pasta
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caesar salad, caprese salad, bruschetta, grilled vegetables
HB-12084 · Hand-built original
A sourdough focaccia mixed from active starter, bread flour and water, bulk fermented until doubled, then panned in olive oil and proofed again until puffy. It bakes at 425°F until golden and is finished with flaky sea salt.
Main ingredient: bread flour
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-8267 · Hand-built original
Bucatini tossed with cherry tomatoes burst in olive oil with garlic, shallot, white wine and herbs, finished with burrata and lemon breadcrumbs.
Main ingredient: bucatini
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-4758 · Hand-built original
Shelf-stable potato gnocchi crisped in a skillet with asparagus, then tossed in miso butter sharpened with sherry vinegar. Tender greens wilt through at the end under a grinding of black pepper.
Main ingredient: gnocchi
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-8276 · Hand-built original
A pizza dough round is par-baked in a hot cast-iron skillet, then topped supreme-style with sauce, mozzarella, pepperoni, peppers, onion, mushrooms and olives.
Main ingredient: brushing
HB-17948 · Hand-built original
Beef cheeks seared and slow cooked in red wine and beef stock with carrot, celery, thyme and bay until they can be eaten with a spoon. The braising liquid is blended smooth and reduced to a gravy that coats the cheeks.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-8279 · Hand-built original
Slow Cooked Rosemary Lamb Ragu is an Italian mains built around chicken.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-2092 · Hand-built original
Slow Cooked Shredded Beef Ragu Pasta is an Italian pasta, slow cooked. Ready in 230 min.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-2093 · Hand-built original
A rich beef, pork and pancetta ragù that cooks all day in the slow cooker and finishes with milk, served on tagliatelle.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-15226 · Hand-built original
Tender brisket cooks low and slow in a rich tomato sauce, then shreds easily for a hearty and comforting pasta dinner.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-2094 · Hand-built original
This easy crockpot chicken marsala combines tender chicken, mushrooms, and a rich marsala sauce for a dinner that’s simple, cozy, and repeat-worthy.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-2874 · Hand-built original
Breaded chicken cutlets seared until their Italian crumb crust is crisp, then finished in the slow cooker on a bed of marinara sauce. Shredded mozzarella melts over the cutlets in the last half hour.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-8294 · Hand-built original
This Crockpot Chicken Tetrazzini recipe is made from scratch with chicken, mushrooms, and pasta in a creamy sauce. It's easy, budget-friendly comfort food!
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-0748 · Hand-built original
A slow-cooked chicken and vegetable broth finished with cheese tortellini.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: crusty bread, garlic bread, green salad, grilled cheese sandwich
HB-4920 · Hand-built original
Chicken breasts and chunky potatoes slow-cooked together with Italian seasoning and garlic until tender. An easy, hearty one-pot supper with almost no hands-on time.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-18074 · Hand-built original
Chicken thighs slow cooked in a honey, soy and hoisin garlic sauce and shredded into the thickened sauce.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: steamed rice, steamed broccoli, stir-fried vegetables, noodles
HB-4948 · Hand-built original
Chuck roast slow cooked in consomme with Italian seasoning and pepperoncini, shredded for sandwiches.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-4908 · Hand-built original
Layers of beef marinara, cottage cheese, mozzarella and uncooked lasagna noodles, slow cooked until tender.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-4902 · Hand-built original
A dump-and-leave marinara that slow cooks into a deep, sweet tomato sauce with basil and oregano.
Main ingredient: notes
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-15238 · Hand-built original
A rich Italian soup of beef, two beans and ditalini pasta, with the pasta cooked in the broth at the end.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-15240 · Hand-built original
A big slow cooker ragu of ground beef and ground pork with onion, carrots and celery, simmered in beef broth and red wine with tomato paste, Italian seasoning and thyme. Heavy cream stirred in at the end rounds out the sauce.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-8313 · Hand-built original
Beef short ribs and Italian sausage slow-cooked in a rich tomato and red wine sauce.
Main ingredient: beef short ribs
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-5405 · Hand-built original
A sausage meat ragù with tomato, red wine, nutmeg and chilli, baked slowly and stirred through hand-shaped semolina cavatelli, with a crisp pea, radish and Little Gem salad alongside.
Main ingredient: sausage
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-8323 · Hand-built original
A creamy salmon risotto where smoked salmon, peas, lemon and dill are folded in only at the end.
Main ingredient: salmon
Pairs well with: asparagus, lemon butter sauce, rice pilaf, cucumber salad, roasted potatoes
HB-15267 · Hand-built original
Spaghetti tossed with asparagus, mushrooms and a horseradish-spiked smoked salmon and herb cream.
Main ingredient: salmon
Pairs well with: asparagus, lemon butter sauce, rice pilaf, cucumber salad, roasted potatoes
HB-15270 · Hand-built original
A slow-fermented pizza leavened with active sourdough starter instead of commercial yeast, at a Neapolitan-style hydration. The dough cold-ferments into balls that stretch into crisp-bottomed, airy-rimmed rounds topped with pizza sauce, mozzarella, Parmigiano Reggiano and basil.
Main ingredient: about
HB-4561 · Hand-built original
A classic Italian spaghetti tossed in olive oil with thinly sliced garlic, crushed red pepper, Parmigiano Reggiano and parsley.
Main ingredient: pasta
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caesar salad, caprese salad, bruschetta, grilled vegetables
HB-11990 · Hand-built original
Spaghetti tossed in olive oil warmed with minced garlic and red pepper flakes, loosened with its own cooking water and finished with parmesan.
Main ingredient: spaghetti
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-8374 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-2148 · Hand-built original
Spaghetti carbonara with smoked pancetta, garlic and parsley, tossed off the heat with egg and pecorino.
Main ingredient: spaghetti
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-5160 · Hand-built original
A Roman carbonara variation where diced zucchini sautés with pancetta and white wine before joining spaghetti in a yolk and cheese sauce. Parsley and two cheeses keep it bright and rich at once.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-15310 · Hand-built original
Spaghetti tossed with fried zucchini, basil and two hard cheeses into a creamy emulsion, finished with butter.
Main ingredient: zucchini
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-4564 · Hand-built original
Spaghetti in a tomato sauce built on anchovies, black olives, capers and chilli flakes, finished with fresh basil.
Main ingredient: pasta
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caesar salad, caprese salad, bruschetta, grilled vegetables
HB-8375 · Hand-built original
Spaghetti all’amatriciana is an Italian main course built around pork.
Main ingredient: pork
Pairs well with: applesauce, roasted sweet potatoes, coleslaw, cornbread, braised cabbage
HB-3195 · Hand-built original
Spaghettini cooked risotto-style in a prawn-shell broth, left to caramelise in the pan, with mussels, prawns and squid stirred through at the end.
Main ingredient: prawn
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-8377 · Hand-built original
Spaghetti served with beef and pork meatballs simmered in a crushed tomato sauce seasoned with oregano, thyme and crushed red pepper.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-10467 · Hand-built original
Spaghetti topped with large meatballs made from sirloin, Italian pork sausage and lamb with soaked bread, eggs and two grated cheeses. The browned meatballs simmer for hours in a red-wine marinara with crushed and diced tomatoes, basil and parsley.
Main ingredient: spaghetti
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-5386 · Hand-built original
Beef meatballs rolled with garlic and mixed herbs, browned, then simmered in a tomato and stock sauce and tossed with spaghetti.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-8378 · Hand-built original
Lean beef mince dry-fried with onion, celery, carrot and mushrooms, simmered in red wine and tomatoes until rich and thick, served over spaghetti with Parmesan.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-13978 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-2149 · Hand-built original
An Italian beef mince and tomato sauce simmered for 45 minutes and tossed with spaghetti.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-3466 · Hand-built original
Ground beef and Italian sausage simmered with carrots, celery and onion in a tomato, red wine and milk sauce with Parmesan, served over spaghetti.
Main ingredient: turkey
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-9476 · Hand-built original
Cheesy baked spaghetti layered with ricotta, ground beef, Italian sausage, and bacon. A hearty, lasagna-style dinner that feeds a crowd.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-2658 · Hand-built original
Baked spaghetti pressed into a pie crust with egg and Parmesan, layered with seasoned ricotta and beef marinara under mozzarella.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-17568 · Hand-built original
Punchy, pungent flavours of anchovies, chilli flakes, capers and olives make this Tom's spaghetti puttanesca a heady classic – add the optional garlic ciabatta for a bit on the side. Each serving provides 615 kcal, 19g protein, 87g carbohydrates (of which 8g sugars), 19g fat (of which 5.5g saturates), 8.5g fibre and 1.4g salt.
Main ingredient: butter
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-3196 · Hand-built original
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