This spicy Italian sausage pasta recipe comes from Calabria in Southern Italy where the rich, spicy, tomato-based sauce is made with the famously fiery spreadable Calabrian chilli pepper and pork sausage paste called ’nduja. We use a skinless spicy Italian pork sausage and shallots or red onions, but you can use ’nduja and Tropea onions … Read more
My easy broccoli pasta recipe with a creamy broccoli pesto sauce makes a delicious alternative to basil pesto pasta. Broccoli is a super-food, rich in fibre, vitamins and minerals, making it a healthy pasta sauce. While the dollop of sour cream or cream is optional, don’t skip the lemon juice, which enlivens the dish, or … Read more
Our cheesy pasta and potatoes recipe for the Southern Italian pasta e patate makes a home-cooked comfort food dish you’re unlikely to see on Italian restaurant menus unless you get off the tourist trail or into a local home. While the Neapolitan pasta, patate e provola with provolone cheese is better known, Parmigiano Reggiano or … Read more
This easy chicken cacciatore pasta recipe makes spaghetti cacciatore – although you could use any pasta you have in the pantry. Created to use up leftover chicken cacciatore, the hearty chicken pasta is a 1970s retro-classic from the Italian-Australian diaspora that’s completely inauthentic – Italians don’t eat pasta with main course dishes – but it’s … Read more
Our best pasta recipes include everything from traditional Italian recipes for ragù alla Bolognese and lasagne from Bologna in Northern Italy to a spaghetti Bolognese of the Italian-Australian kind our mums made when we were kids to recipes for Italian pastas that are less-known outside Italy, such as Venice’s bigoli con salsa and Sardinia’s spaghetti … Read more