25 Best Ever Easy Italian Dinner Recipes (2024)

Italian Dinner Recipes are one of our favorites to make! Here are the top 25, all-time, best ever, easy Italian dinner recipes on our site. Perfect to help you prepare meals on your busiest days and nights!

30-minute meals, one-skillet meals, casseroles, pasta bakes, soups and more!

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In the last 9 years, we have developed and posted over 1,300 recipes. I am sure you can imagine a good portion are Italian. We are always asked what are our favorites.

We decided to gather our favorites all in one place where you can check them out.

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Italian Skillets and One-Pot Recipes

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One Pot Cheesy Pasta and Sausage features a spectacular creamy cheesy tomato basil sauce cooked right into the linguine pasta in this amazing One Pot Pasta recipe, ready in 20 Minutes! Toss it all in a pot and let it cook. It’s so easy it just about cooks itself. Now that’s my kind of meal.

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30 Minute Skillet Ravioli with Sausage – tastes like fine Italian restaurant meal in one skillet and half and
hour! Cheesy and oh so delish! We have had this 5 times in the last 2 months, its that good.

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25 Minute Baked Ziti Skillet – one pan and 25 minutes are all that stand between you and a magical bite of Italian comfort food!

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3 Cheese Skillet Lasagna can be in just 30 minutes!! Packed with traditional flavor, in one skillet in half an hour!

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Hearty Italian Sausage and Potatoes is made with all whole ingredients from the market and the garden. 30 minute meal!!!

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Smoked Sausage Pasta and Vegetables . Packed with tender fresh vegetables, cheese and Italian flavor.

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Italian Sausage, Peppers, and Potato Skillet starts with creating your own sausage flavor using lean chicken breast. This dish goes from prep to plate in just 30 minutes.

30 Minute Stove Top Italian Meals

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Our Chicken Bianco recipe is even better than Olive Garden’s version!!! So delicious it may transport you to Italy.

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25 Minute Chicken Parmesan Pasta contains all your favorite things about chicken parmesan in just 25 minutes!

This Chicken Parmesan Pasta Toss can yours for dinner tonight with just 10 ingredients and 25 minutes!

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Pierogis with Tomato Cream Sauce is a surprisingly perfect comfort food for fall, ready in 30 minutes.

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Super Simple Italian Mac and Cheese – You can’t have an Italian dinner without pasta, and this is the cheesiest pasta of all!

Hearty Italian Dinner Recipes

The Ultimate 3 Cheese Lasagna Soup
a thick and rich one pot soup. Ready in just 30 minutes. This classic
comfort food has been transformed into your new favorite soup.

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Italian Sausage and Pepper Soupcombines my favorite flavors in stuffed peppers and also includes sausage and peppers.
It goes from prep to plate in just 30 minutes. Hot, sweet, pork, chicken or turkey this soup is for you!

30 Minute Hearty Italian Sausage Soup is loaded with basil, sausage and a few more ingredients to make this stick to your ribs soup!

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Light Italian Meatball Soup is loaded with veggies and lean meatballs cooked in a light tomato broth. Ready in just 30 minutes.

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Hearty Pasta fa*gioli – a traditional Italian dish so thick you can stand a spoon up in the pot. On your table in 30 minutes!

Fall comfort food coming to you in this easy Tortellini and Vegetable Soup. It is so thick and delicious, you can just about eat it with a fork.

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Italian Chili: Flavorful, delicious meaty chili with an Italian flair!

Roasted Tomato Basil Soup. Sometimes all you need is a good bowl of soup and a spoon. Packed with deep slow roasted tomato flavor and a tiny kick, you are going to love it!

Casseroles, Pasta Bakes and More!

Quick and Easy Cheesy Meat Lasagna
with layer after layer of flavorful meat, pasta and cheese that comes
together in 15 minutes. Only 40 minutes from prep to plate this holiday
meal is a dream come true.

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Cheesy Bacon Chicken Pierogi Bake made with a creamy bacon cheese sauce in just 30 minutes! BACON.CHEESE.POTATOES! It’s calling your name.

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Italian Sun Dried Tomato Pasta is loaded with ooey gooey cheese,
sun-dried and fresh grape tomatoes. Ready in just 30 minutes!

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Easy Cheesy Pesto Chicken Ziti a fun spin on the the classic baked ziti that you and your family are going to go crazy over!

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A twist on your classic baked ziti; this 30 Minute Cheesy Chicken Pasta Bake goes from prep to plate in half an hour. A secret ingredient really makes this dish pop!

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Roasted Vegetable Penne Pasta is an amazing and simple dish that is ‘knock your socks off’ delicious! It starts with slow roasted vegetables and ends with a fresh garlic sauce. You’re welcome.

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Originally published December 2013. Updated and republished February 2017.

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FAQs

What is just enough in Italian cooking? ›

Quanto Basta: This phrase roughly translates to “just enough.” It is used to describe how much of an ingredient should be added. It is essentially the Italian version of “to taste.”

What is a true Italian dinner? ›

What is a typical Italian dinner? Typically, Italian dinner dishes include a variety of pasta, soups, risottos, and seafood. With an Italian-inspired dinner menu, you'll find dishes like pizza, spaghetti, ravioli, and desserts such as tiramisu.

What is the most eaten dish in Italy? ›

Pizza. A list of the most iconic foods to eat in Italy wouldn't be complete without the humble pizza. Easy, cheap, and filling, pizza has long been a common snack or meal, especially in Naples where tomato sauce was first added.

What is the oldest Italian dish? ›

Testaroli has been described as "the earliest recorded pasta". It is also a native dish of the southern Liguria and northern Tuscany regions of Italy. Testaroli is prepared from a batter that is cooked on a hot flat surface, after which it may be consumed.

What should you say to everyone before you start to eat in Italian? ›

Buon Appetito!

One of the most renowned Italian expressions, this phrase is used to wish someone an enjoyable meal just before starting a meal.

What do Italians eat for dinner every night? ›

Most dinners consist of a salad, the primo (pasta or soup dish) and the secondo (meat or fish dish). The Italians also enjoy cooked vegetables like artichokes, eggplants, mushrooms, spinach and zucchini, which they either buy at the market or grow in their gardens.

What is the number 1 Italian dish? ›

Pizza, considered the most important dish in Italy, plays a big role in the country's cuisine, even though it is known as fast food in the world. The most frequently preferred pizza recipe in Italy is Margarita, and it is consumed all over the world with its light structure and taste that appeals to every taste.

What is Italy's national dish? ›

Commonly known around the world as spaghetti bolognese, in its authentic form 'Ragu alla Bolognese' is recognised as the national dish of Italy. Its origin can be traced back to Imola, a town near the city of Bologna, where a recipe was first recorded in the 18th century.

What is Italy most famous pasta dish? ›

Spaghetti Bolognese

It is commonly served with parmesan cheese. The dish is one of Italy's most popular exports, and thought to have originated in Imola, a northern Italian city west of Bologna some time around the late 1800s - when the first reference to the dish's ragu sauce was recorded.

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