Dinner Recipes

The best Italian dinner recipes are comforting and seductive while being tasty and nourishing. Dinner can mean big parties but it can also mean quick and easy midweek meals.

And for a truly sensational selection of Italian dinner recipes it’s hard to beat the great range of ideas from Gino D’Acampo. Gino’s recipes for Italian dinners are designed for everyone. From romantico dinner recipes for two like gnocchi with truffle oil, oysters with black pepper tempura or beautifully light and delicious asparagus and ricotta tarts, to dozens of quick Italian dishes you can prepare after the kids get home from school.

You can find a full range of the very best recipes for Italian dinners in Gino’s best-selling recipe books or you can find a selection of great ideas below. Gino’s books are full of great ideas for Italian dishes and provide inspiration and guidance in equal measure! Time to start cooking – you won’t be disappointed!

Dinner

ZUPPA DI ORZO PERLATO E MANZOBEEF AND BARLEY SOUP

Barley has been cultivated in Italy since ancient times. It was believed to give fighters extra strength – gladiators were known as the hordearii, or ‘barley eaters’, and Roman soldiers used to march off to war with a bag of barley, which they boiled up in their helmets to make porridge. Barley is great in soups, adding a nice bite, and here it absorbs the rich flavour of the beef stock. Serve...

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Extracted from Gino's Italian Adriatic Escape: A taste of Italy from Veneto to Puglia by Gino D’Acampo (published by Hodder & Stoughton) on 18th October 2018. Photography credit – Dan Jones, Holly Bryson & Trevor Butterfield

FIORI DI ZUCCHINE FRITTI E RIPIENI DI RICOTTADEEP-FRIED COURGETTE FLOWERS STUFFED WITH RICOTTA

Courgette flowers, sold in bunches in Italian markets in midsummer, are usually a privilege reserved for the kitchen gardener in Britain. They're a rare treat in the shops, so if you see courgette flowers for sale snap them up and cook them the same day – they don’t last long. For variety, add some fresh mint to the ricotta mixture or pop in a small cube of mozzarella.