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Golden chicken breasts sliced into a rich double cream, stock and Parmesan sauce with garlic, lemon and parsley, tossed through tagliatelle for a quick, luxurious pasta dinner.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-13104 · Hand-built original
Chicken baked with green olives, mushrooms, peppers and tomatoes in a cream sauce. It is rich, briny and savoury.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-3973 · Hand-built original
Chicken with mushroom and endive cream is a delicious main course. The cream of champignon mushrooms pairs perfectly with the flavor of the chicken!
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-0538 · Hand-built original
Chicken with persimmons and Jerusalem artichokes is a Italian main courses built around chicken. It takes 90 min in total and serves 4. It pairs well with roasted potatoes and rice pilaf.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-0539 · Hand-built original
Chicken breasts slit and filled with a basil, pine nut, Parmesan and pecorino pesto are floured and pan-fried until golden, then finished with more pesto on top. Boiled new potatoes and steamed green beans make the plate.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-17758 · Hand-built original
An Italian soup of chickpeas, cavatelli pasta, celery, carrot, onion and rosemary in vegetable stock, with half the mixture blended to thicken it. Parsley and parmesan finish each bowl.
Main ingredient: chickpeas
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone, crusty bread
HB-6491 · Hand-built original
Main ingredient: prawn
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-0561 · Hand-built original
A flourless Italian chocolate cake made with hazelnut meal and dark chocolate, dusted with cocoa and served with mascarpone and red-wine roasted strawberries.
Main ingredient: chocolate
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone, coffee
HB-6523 · Hand-built original
Chocolate and Nutmeg Pudding with Apple Coulis is a Italian dessert built around cups. It takes 25 min in total and serves 6. It pairs well with garlic bread and caprese salad.
Main ingredient: qt whole milk
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone, coffee
HB-0576 · Hand-built original
Chocolate Cannoli Filling is an Italian dessert built around cheese. Ready in 20 Minutes.
Main ingredient: cheese
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone, coffee
HB-0579 · Hand-built original
Chocolate Cup with Biscuits is a Italian dessert built around cups. It takes 2 h 45 min in total and serves 4. It pairs well with garlic bread and caprese salad.
Main ingredient: ½ cups whole milk
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone, coffee
HB-0584 · Hand-built original
A no-bake Italian spoon dessert of vanilla and chocolate creams layered with cocoa-dipped biscuits and whipped cream. Served chilled in individual cups.
Main ingredient: ½ cups whole milk
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone, coffee
HB-13159 · Hand-built original
Chocolate pears are a traditional French recipe, very famous and particularly suitable for the Christmas season.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-0589 · Hand-built original
Chocolate spoon cookies is a Italian cookies built around cups. It takes 35 min in total and serves 8. It pairs well with garlic bread and caprese salad.
Main ingredient: ¼ oz sugar
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-0593 · Hand-built original
A traditional Italian Carnival dessert of tiny fried dough balls bound in warm honey with almonds and sprinkles, shaped in a ring. Crunchy, sticky and made for sharing.
Main ingredient: medium eggs
HB-13197 · Hand-built original
Citrus and Ginger Bundt Cake is a Italian cakes & baking built around cups. It takes 90 min in total and serves 8. It pairs well with garlic bread and caprese salad.
Main ingredient: eggs
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-0613 · Hand-built original
Linguine tossed in a white wine pan sauce with clams, shallots, sliced garlic, parsley, red pepper flakes and butter.
Main ingredient: linguine
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-10605 · Hand-built original
Spaghetti baked with Italian sausage marinara, parmesan and mozzarella until bubbling and golden.
Main ingredient: sausage
Pairs well with: caesar salad, garlic bread, green salad, grilled vegetables
HB-5109 · Hand-built original
Twice-baked almond biscotti, crisp and golden, made for dunking in coffee or hot cocoa.
Main ingredient: flour
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone, coffee
HB-13225 · Hand-built original
Chopped romaine tossed in a mayonnaise and egg yolk Caesar dressing with lemon, garlic, anchovy paste, Dijon and Parmesan, finished with more shaved Parmesan on top.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-9368 · Hand-built original
Crisp Italian cream horns of homemade laminated puff pastry wrapped around metal tubes, sugared, baked golden and filled at the last moment with Chantilly cream folded from whipped cream and custard.
Main ingredient: sugar
HB-17291 · Hand-built original
Silky fettuccine tossed in an emulsified butter and Parmesan sauce made with its own cooking water, finished with pepper and extra cheese.
Main ingredient: pasta
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caesar salad, caprese salad, bruschetta, grilled vegetables
HB-18259 · Hand-built original
Oven-broiled beef meatballs with Parmesan, basil, oregano and parsley, softened with milk-soaked bread for a juicy centre.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-13230 · Hand-built original
Jumbo pasta shells stuffed with drained ricotta, wilted greens, mozzarella and Parmigiano-Reggiano, baked in tomato sauce under a bubbling cheese top.
Main ingredient: pasta
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caesar salad, caprese salad, bruschetta, grilled vegetables
HB-6579 · Hand-built original
Layers of lasagna noodles with a beef and Italian sausage tomato sauce, a ricotta and Parmesan filling, and plenty of mozzarella, baked until bubbling.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-17484 · Hand-built original
Sliced zucchini, squash, eggplant and Roma tomatoes bake in neat rows over a balsamic tomato sauce until silky and tender.
Main ingredient: eggplant
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-17157 · Hand-built original
Espresso-soaked ladyfingers layered with a mascarpone cream and dusted with cocoa. Chilled until set before serving.
Main ingredient: mascarpone
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone, coffee
HB-4656 · Hand-built original
Coffee Cookies is a Italian cookies built around cups. It takes 60 min in total and serves 10. It pairs well with garlic bread and caprese salad.
Main ingredient: instant coffee powder
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-0645 · Hand-built original
A beef, pork and pancetta ragù built on carrots, celery and onion with tomato paste, red wine, milk and crushed tomatoes, tossed with pappardelle and Parmigiano Reggiano.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-11383 · Hand-built original
A chicken broth soup with small beef meatballs, orzo, carrots, celery and spinach, seasoned with Italian seasoning and oregano.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-11385 · Hand-built original
A tart of confit cherry tomatoes with sundried tomato pesto.
Main ingredient: egg
Pairs well with: toast, hash browns, fruit salad, bacon, avocado
HB-0652 · Hand-built original
Lasagne sheets cut into wide pappardelle ribbons, tossed with leeks confited in butter and fennel-seed sausage meat, finished with chilli and Parmesan.
Main ingredient: pork
Pairs well with: applesauce, roasted sweet potatoes, coleslaw, cornbread, braised cabbage
HB-13262 · Hand-built original
Rabbit legs dusted with seasoned flour, browned, then braised in the oven with peppers, fennel, olives, capers and white wine in chicken stock.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-6620 · Hand-built original
Soft garlic breadsticks from a quick yeast dough, brushed with garlic butter and rolled in Parmesan as soon as they leave the oven.
Main ingredient: flour
HB-13284 · Hand-built original
Soft, yeasted breadsticks rolled into logs, baked until golden and brushed hot with garlic butter and parsley.
Main ingredient: active dry yeast
HB-17872 · Hand-built original
A chicken caprese salad with herbed quinoa, pesto-coated mozzarella, arugula and tomatoes under a creamy cottage cheese balsamic dressing.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-11407 · Hand-built original
Squid ink linguine tossed with crab, slow-roasted overnight tomatoes, pine nuts, chilli, rocket and lemon.
Main ingredient: crab
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-3415 · Hand-built original
A Roman spring stew of peas, broad beans, asparagus and artichokes in a bacon, leek and white wine broth carries baked Cornish gurnard fillets brushed with brown butter. Fresh mint, chives, chervil and lemon finish the vignarola at the last moment.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-6639 · Hand-built original
A no-boil lasagna layered with a beef and Italian sausage tomato sauce and a cottage cheese, Fontina and Parmesan filling. The dry noodles soften in the sauce as the dish bakes.
Main ingredient: beef
Pairs well with: mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, red wine sauce, yorkshire pudding, green beans
HB-13388 · Hand-built original
Rigatoni folded through a silky, slow-cooked courgette and lemon sauce, topped with honey-glazed cubes of crisp fried halloumi and sliced mint.
Main ingredient: pasta
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caesar salad, caprese salad, bruschetta, grilled vegetables
HB-13391 · Hand-built original
Potato gnocchi and courgettes roast at high heat until golden, then Tenderstem broccoli and capers join the tin for a final blast. A spring greens pesto with basil, pine nuts, Parmesan and lemon is spooned over the traybake to serve.
Main ingredient: potato
Pairs well with: sour cream, green beans, coleslaw, grilled steak, roast chicken
HB-6649 · Hand-built original
Grated courgettes melted into an anchovy and garlic olive oil sauce with a pinch of chilli, tossed through orecchiette and finished with Parmesan.
Main ingredient: pasta
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caesar salad, caprese salad, bruschetta, grilled vegetables
HB-13392 · Hand-built original
Hand-shaped cavatelli with fried courgettes, garlic and chilli, tossed with mascarpone, lemon, basil and Parmesan.
Main ingredient: pasta
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caesar salad, caprese salad, bruschetta, grilled vegetables
HB-3417 · Hand-built original
Carnaroli rice stirred with fennel and two kinds of crabmeat, enriched at the end with wine-sharp acid butter, whipped cream and tarragon.
Main ingredient: crab
Pairs well with: garlic bread, caprese salad, tiramisu, minestrone
HB-17185 · Hand-built original
Fresh egg linguine, rolled to the thinnest setting, tosses with crabmeat in a garlicky chilli stock glossed with olive oil. Lemon zest and juice lift the sweet crab.
Main ingredient: chicken
Pairs well with: roasted potatoes, rice pilaf, green beans, caesar salad, garlic bread
HB-18002 · Hand-built original
Linguine tossed with a quick fresh-tomato sauce, wilted arugula and sweet lump crab, warmed through at the last moment so the crab stays tender.
Main ingredient: crab
HB-13395 · Hand-built original
Linguine tossed with brown crabmeat, chilli, garlic and white wine, finished with white crabmeat and parsley.
Main ingredient: crab
HB-4362 · Hand-built original
A lemon risotto with peas and crabmeat, finished with butter and chives.
Main ingredient: crab
HB-4363 · Hand-built original
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