Italian recipes

A strawberry Tiramisu recipe using a zabaglione and Mascarpone cheese mixture, fresh strawberries and a strawberry compote. This recipe makes a refreshing, simple and delicious summer dessert, great for any occation.
 

A classic Tiramisu recipe with eggs, Mascarpone cheese, Marsala wine and heavy cream. The eggs in this recipe are not cooked; instead they are beaten raw, together with the cream and Mascarpone. If you do not feel right with this you can cook the egg yolks and sugar in a double boiler, whisking continously, until pale yellow in color. Cool and use as mentioned in the recipe.

Refrigeration time is essential for Tiramisu, as it allows for all the flavors to come together. A minimum of 3 hours is needed, but for best results, refrigerate for 6 hours or even more.The best is to make the Tiramisu a day in advance.
 

A delicious Italian chicken dish, chicken flamingo is chicken breast coated in Italian seasoned breadcrumbs, panfried, topped with 3 different types of cheese and served in a white wine butter, garlic and lemon juice sauce with broccoli and mushrooms. This dish is ideal for dinner, served with garlic bread or pasta and a simple green salad.
 

A classic Italian dessert, Tiramisu is a multi-layered cake consisting of Italian biscuits dipped in Espresso coffee, toppped with a layer or more of  cream usually made of eggs, alcohol, cream and Mascarpone cheese. This recipe is one of the best Tiramisu recipes we have tried. It uses a zabaglione cream flavored with Cointreau and rum, a Mascarpone based cream and Amaretti biscuits that have been dipped in an Espresso, Kahlua and brandy mixture. For best results, refrigerate the Tiramisu for at least 3 hours (refrigerate overnight for even better taste). The Tiramisu can be refrigerated for up to a week, with its taste getting better and better with time.
 

A simple, delicious and fast Italian dish, chicken or pollo cacciatore is chicken breasts, browned in vegetable oil, then stewed for 30 minutes with white sliced mushrooms, garlic and tomatoes. Serve with freshly made garlic bread or pasta for a quick and easy classic Italian dish.
 

Another non-alcoholic Tiramisu recipe, this one uses a berry compote (made from an assortment of berries such as strawberries, blueberries, rasberries etc) together with mascarpone cheese, cream and sugar. You can use whatever berries you can find, as long as they are fresh. The preparation is easy and you can easily adjust the quantities to make more. Besides not using alcohol, this Tiramisu does not use coffee either so this makes it a great desert for kids.
 

A great, easy and extremely fast to make Tiramisu, requires no cooking at all. All you need to do is beat some heavy cream and brew some Espresso coffee. The assembly of the Tiramisu takes only a few minutes. This Tiramisu recipe contains no alcohol. If you want to add more coffee flavor to the desert, you can top the ice cream with a splash of Kahlua or any other coffee liquer. Tiramisu affogato is one of the quickest, tastiest Tiramisu recipes yet.
 

A simple yet delicious Italian pasta dish that can be ready in under 15 minutes. Slices of boneless chicken breast are cooked with onion, garlic and mushrooms in a creamy sauce together with fried Prosciutto. The chicken sauce is served with penne pasta.
 

A simple, easy to make, delicious Italian pasta dish, spaghetti carbonara is pasta with a egg, cream and ham sauce, perfect as a fast dish, lunch or dinner. The sauce is basically cooked by tossing it in the hot pasta - the only thing that needs to be cooked in this recipe, besides the pasta is the prosciutto and onions. Serve the pasta with freshly cracked black pepper and grated Parmesan cheese.
 

Biscotti is the Italian word for biscuits (biscotto in singular form) and refers to any kind of cookies. Worldwide, the term biscotti refers to hard, almond flavored cookies. Biscotti cookies are made using a two step baking process. The biscotti dough is first shaped into a log, baked half way, cut into biscotti and baked until ready.