Main courses

Browned sausages and cannellini beans simmered in tomato with garlic and sage: a rustic Tuscan main…

Beef slowly cooked in its sauce with soft, fragrant potatoes: spezzatino is the traditional main course…

Claimed by both Campania and Sicily, aubergine parmigiana is one of the South’s best-loved dishes, baked…

Vitello tonnato is a cold dish from Piedmont: thin slices of poached veal covered with a…

Courgette frittata is a quick, thrifty main course everyone loves: eggs, cheese and golden courgettes.

Baked sea bass is a simple, elegant fish main course, roasted whole with herbs, lemon, potatoes…

Cotoletta alla milanese is a bone-in veal chop, breaded and fried in clarified butter: crisp outside,…

Lemon scaloppine are the ultimate quick main course: thin floured slices cooked in butter with a…

Meatballs in tomato sauce are the quintessential Sunday main course, simmered slowly in the sauce.

Ossobuco is one of Milan’s most famous dishes: slow-cooked veal shank, tender and tasty, finished with…

Saltimbocca are so good they “jump into your mouth”: veal with prosciutto and sage, quickly cooked…

Chicken cacciatore is a rustic main course found all over central Italy, slowly cooked with tomato,…