Italian Recipes Your Guests Will Love, From Caprese to Calzones

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Caprese Salad Skewers With Balsamic Glaze

This caprese salad skewers recipe is destined to be a huge hit at your next dinner party. This is a fun adaptation of the classic caprese salad recipe.

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Baked Prosciutto Cups with Whipped Goat Cheese

I know these prosciutto cups look like they belong on a high-end restaurant menu, but I promise you, they’re surprisingly simple to make right at home with a basic muffin tin. They’re a naturally gluten-free substitute for puff pastry, and I think they’re the perfect, elegant whipped goat cheese appetizer to impress guests.

Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus

Every now and again, you might get a hankering for a fancy appetizer and this Easy Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus is just the ticket.

Easy Caprese Salad

This effortlessly simple Caprese salad recipe brings a bit of Italy to your kitchen. Ripe tomatoes, creamy mozzarella, and fragrant basil combine for a refreshing appetizer perfect for any occasion.

Caesar Salad

Caesar salad is a wonderful light salad to have out or at home. I just love the creamy dressing but I hate the idea of anchovies and that is why we created a caesar salad without anchovies or raw eggs.

Chicken Caprese with a Balsamic Glaze

Luckily for you (and us), we have just the recipe for you: chicken Caprese with a balsamic glaze! Yup, this quick and easy recipe brings together convenience and homey comfort (who doesn’t love a succulent grilled chicken breast), spruced up with the vibrant flavors of a freshly-made Caprese salad.

Baked Chicken with Marinara and Mozzarella

This easy oven-baked chicken recipe only takes a couple of minutes to prep, and then you bake it in the oven. It is simple to prepare and big in flavor.

Sheet Pan Italian Chicken and Veggies

Cubed chicken breasts roast alongside red and green bell peppers, red onion, zucchini, and yellow squash, all tossed in Italian dressing and topped with as much shredded parmesan as you want. This sheet pan Italian chicken and veggies comes together in 35 minutes, on one pan.

Chicken Tetrazzini

This Chicken Tetrazzini captures everything comforting about a baked pasta — the golden cheese, the tender noodles, and the savory cream sauce that thickens just enough to hold it all together. It’s the kind of meal that doesn’t need embellishment — a dish built from pantry staples and made to feed a tableful.

Slow Cooker Rigatoni Chicken Alfredo

As the chicken slowly cooks in a bath of heavy cream, butter, and broth, the meat turns tender enough to shred with a fork. The sauce, enriched by cream cheese and Parmesan, thickens into a clingy sauce for the rigatoni.

Homemade Meat Sauce

A slow-simmered Homemade Meat Sauce transforms humble pantry staples into a rich, savory sauce that tastes like it’s been on the stove all afternoon. Serve it generously over spaghetti, or spoon it between layers of lasagna noodles for a deeply flavored Sunday dinner.

Zucchini Rollatini

If your garden is overflowing or your neighbor has been generous with their extra zucchini, here is a delicious recipe to make a ricotta stuffed zucchini I think you’ll love. The fresh basil chopped and mixed into the cheese takes this over the top.

Zucchini and Goat Cheese Pasta

Zucchini is in season right this very instant, and of course CHEESE is always welcome in this house. It’s a rich but not dense, and it took me only 25 minutes to put together, including the time to boil the noodles.

Spinach Basil Pesto

We love to cook up some pasta and pair it with a simple garlic sauce or pesto for a quick and easy dinner. It is fantastic spread on toasted bread and even as a sauce for pizza.

Calzone with Ground Beef and Chunky Marinara

This delicious calzone has the sauce for dipping on the side for mess-free eating! Set up a fun Calzone Toppings Bar and everyone can fill their own any way they want.

Fried Pizza

This is a fried pizza recipe—6 personal homemade pizzas that are pressed into a circle by hand and then deep fried before being topped with tomato sauce and sliced fresh mozzarella cheese then briefly baked. It makes the crust both tender and deliciously crisp.

Homemade Pizza Pockets with Puff Pastry

These homemade pizza pockets check every box—crispy puff pastry pizza pockets stuffed with melty cheese and pepperoni. They’re quick, adaptable, and the kind of dinner that disappears before the baking sheet cools.

Spaghetti Bread

This spaghetti bread takes everything good about a bowl of spaghetti and tucks it into crisp, golden bread. It’s hearty enough for dinner yet playful enough for a party, and it turns a humble pasta night into something you can serve straight from the oven.

Italian Hangover Cake

This Italian Hangover Cake recipe is our attempt at recreating the trending one-bite review videos on TikTok—a copycat bundt cake made at a now-famous Italian restaurant. This fluffy cake is moist, dense, and deeply layered with the flavor of almond, orange, and vanilla—giving traditional rum cake a run for its money!

Easy Aperol Spritz

Want an easy, summer cocktail with a low alcohol content straight from the heart of northern Italy? Aperol is a low-alcohol Italian aperitif, bright orange in color that LOOKS like it would be very sweet, but it is NOT.