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Italian recipes

Regional simplicity: few ingredients, treated properly. 499 Italian recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.

Pasta, risotto, braises, pizza and the sweets of Italy’s regions. Most of it depends on a few good ingredients handled carefully, and the methods say where care matters most: the pasta water that finishes a sauce, the heat under a risotto, the rest a dough needs.

The 499 recipes cover all ten of the site’s categories, among them 261 dinners, 52 bakes, 49 quick meals, 39 desserts, 38 appetisers and small plates and 27 lunches. Of these, 132 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Aperol Spritz (4 min), Hugo Spritz (5 min) and Italian Seasoning (5 min). For 166, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 296 easy, 181 medium and 22 hard.

As written, 183 are vegetarian, 60 vegan, 129 gluten-free and 127 dairy-free. Another 46 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.