Five easy and delicious pasta recipes that take less than 20 minutes to make and are perfect for families

ITALIAN nutrient tin bring retired the romance during immoderate day night.

But things are present hotting up acknowledgment to Angelo Coassin, aka @cookingwithbello, who is giving Italian dishes a sexy twist with his caller publication Cook Like A Real Italian.

If you haven’t seen his cookalong videos, you are successful for a dainty – spot us!

From primi to secondi courses, and everything successful between, determination is simply a feast of classics to enjoy, specified arsenic the look for his mum’s meatballs, arsenic good arsenic the intriguing TikTok-inspired penne alla vodka.
But it’s not each pizza and pasta.

We are loving Angelo’s desserts and adjacent cocktails to acceptable the mood.

Here, Kirsty Spence brings you immoderate casual recipes from Angelo’s book, which are truthful overmuch amusive to marque and adjacent much enjoyable to share. Buon appetito . . . 

Cheesy citrus scaloppine

• Serves: 4
• Prep time: 10 minutes
• Cook time: 15 minutes

I ALWAYS marque these super-cheesy citrus scaloppine erstwhile I privation thing delicious for meal but don’t person a batch of clip to cook.

If you privation to marque them other sexy, effort replacing the citrus foodstuff with Marsala wine.

YOU NEED:

• 2 skinless and boneless chickenhearted breasts
• 50g plain flour
• 50g unsalted butter
• 50ml citrus juice
• 50g provolone cheese, sliced (or usage mozzarella)
• Salt and freshly crushed achromatic pepper

METHOD:

1. Cut each chickenhearted bosom successful fractional horizontally truthful you extremity up with 4 chickenhearted steaks.
2. Place each steak into a ziplock container and lb it with a rolling pin until it is astir 6mm thick. Gently particulate each steak with flour and acceptable aside.
3. Melt the food successful a frying cookware implicit a mean heat. After a mates of minutes, erstwhile the cookware is blistery and the food is sizzling, adhd your chickenhearted steaks and navigator for a mates of minutes connected each side.
4. Reduce vigor to low-medium, determination the citrus foodstuff implicit the chickenhearted and play with brackish and pepper, past navigator for a further 5 minutes connected each broadside oregon until the chickenhearted is cooked through. Always marque definite your chickenhearted is afloat cooked, and retrieve cooking clip whitethorn alteration depending connected thickness of chickenhearted steaks.
5. Turn disconnected the vigor and spot the food slices connected apical of your scaloppine. Cover the cookware with a lid and fto the food melt successful the residual vigor for a mates of minutes until . . . super sexy.
6. Serve with a sprinkle of capsicum and citrus slices if you like.

SEXY TIP: Serve your citrus scaloppine topped with immoderate caller rocket and cherry tomatoes.

Baked ricotta balls

• Serves: 6
• Prep time: 20 minutes
  Cook time: 50 minutes

MY mum made these super-cheesy treats for Sunday luncheon erstwhile I was a kid. You tin usage your favourite vegetables for the filling.

Here, I’ve utilized spinach, but courgettes and squash enactment fine, too.

YOU NEED:

• 20g unsalted butter
• 50g breadcrumbs, positive 2 tbsp for the baking dish
• Drizzle of other virgin olive oil
• 800g caller spinach
• 500g ricotta
• 2 eggs
• 40g parmesan, grated, positive 3 tbsp for topping
• Pinch of crushed nutmeg
• 100g plain, all-purpose flour
• 250g provolone cheese, sliced
• 500ml bechamel sauce
• Salt and freshly crushed achromatic pepper

METHOD:

1. Preheat the oven to 200C/ 180C fan.
2. Grease a 20x30 cm (8x12in) baking crockery with the food and past scatter the 2 tbsp of breadcrumbs each over. Then acceptable aside.
3. Heat the olive lipid successful a ample frying cookware oregon skillet implicit a debased to mean heat.
4. Add the spinach and play with a pinch of salt, past navigator for 10 minutes until wilted.
5. Allow to chill wholly earlier chopping.
6. Tip the ricotta into a vessel and interruption it up with a fork.
7. Add the chopped spinach, on with the eggs, the 40g parmesan, and nutmeg.
8. Season with brackish and capsicum and disturbance good to combine.
9. Now adhd the 50g of breadcrumbs and premix again. Shape the substance into tiny balls of astir 40g each (you should get astir 30).
10. Tip the flour into a shallow vessel and dip the ricotta balls into the flour to coat. Place them successful the prepared baking dish.
11. Arrange the provolone food slices connected top, past determination implicit the bechamel sauce.
12. Scatter the remaining 3 tbsp of parmesan connected apical past screen with foil and cook successful the oven for 40 minutes, removing the foil for the last 10 minutes of cooking clip truthful a bully crust tin signifier connected top.
13. Serve and enjoy.

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My mum's meatballs

• Serves: 4-6
• Prep time: 15 minutes
  Cook time: 50 minutes

MY mum makes the champion meatballs, and I americium truthful pleased to beryllium sharing her recipe.

Serve arsenic a main people with immoderate mashed potatoes, oregon marque them super-small to garnish immoderate pasta.

YOU NEED:

• 80g achromatic bread, nary crusts
• Milk, to cover
• 800g minced beef
• 1 egg
• Small clump basil, chopped
• 30g grated parmesan
• Salt and freshly crushed achromatic pepper
• For the herb sauce:
• Generous drizzle of other virgin olive oil
• 1 tiny onion, finely chopped
• 1 ail clove, finely chopped
• 400g tin peeled tomatoes

METHOD:

1. Place the breadstuff successful a bowl, past determination implicit capable beverage to cover. Soak for 30 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, hole your herb sauce. Heat the olive lipid successful a cookware implicit a low-medium heat.
3. Add bulb and ail and sizzle for a fewer minutes past disturbance successful the tomatoes.
4. Season with brackish and capsicum to taste, past navigator for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Return to the bread. Remove it from the vessel and compression to region excess milk, past adhd to a ample bowl, with the beef, egg, basil and cheese.
6. Season with brackish and pepper, past enactment substance unneurotic with hands.
7. Use your hands to rotation it into tiny balls astir the size of a table-tennis shot (this look should marque astir 40 balls).
8. Drop meatballs into condiment and navigator implicit a low–medium vigor for 15 to 20 minutes, turning halfway through. Serve lukewarm with mashed potato.

Penne alla vodka

• Serves: 4
• Prep time: 5 minutes
• Cook Time: 20 minutes

PENNE alla vodka is simply a classical Italian pasta look from the 1980s, and it is super-easy to make.

Traditionally, this condiment is served with penne, but rigatoni and spaghetti volition besides enactment perfectly.

YOU NEED:

• Drizzle other virgin olive oil
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 1 reddish chilli, finely chopped
• 1 bay leaf
• 50ml vodka
• 300ml herb passata
• 80ml treble cream
• 360g penne pasta
• Salt and freshly crushed achromatic pepper
• Small clump parsley, finely chopped, to serve

METHOD:

1. Heat olive lipid successful a frying cookware implicit a low-medium heat. Add onion, chilli and bay leaf, and sizzle for a mates of minutes.
2. Then adhd vodka and fto it evaporate (this volition instrumentality a mates of minutes), past adhd passata. Season with brackish and capsicum and navigator for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Add the pick and navigator for a further 5 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, bring a ample saucepan of salted h2o to the boil implicit a mean heat.
5. Add pasta and navigator for 2 to 3 minutes until al dente. Drain, reserving a mates of ladlefuls of the pasta water.
6. Add the pasta to your condiment and flip good implicit the vigor to harvester each the flavours, adding a driblet of pasta h2o to loosen if necessary.
   Serve topped with parsley.

SEXY TIP: Add immoderate smoked pancetta and chopped ail to your condiment for immoderate other flavour.

Sicilian cod

• Serves: 4
• Prep time: 10 minutes
• Cook time: 35 minutes

I LEARNED this crockery from Carlo, a Sicilian fishmonger who I met connected vacation successful Palermo a fewer years ago.

It is casual and speedy to make. For other sexiness, flour the food earlier adding it to the pan.

YOU NEED:

• Drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 ail clove, chopped
• 250g cherry tomatoes, halved
• 2 mean potatoes, peeled and diced
• 250g herb passata
• 100ml water
• 4 skinless cod fillets
• 20g greenish oregon achromatic olives, pitted
• Small clump parsley, chopped
• Salt and freshly crushed achromatic pepper

METHOD:

1. Heat olive lipid successful ample frying cookware implicit a low-medium heat.
2. Add ail and cherry tomatoes and navigator for a mates of minutes, past adhd the potatoes, herb passata and water.
3. Season with brackish and pepper, past screen and navigator for 20-25 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are soft.
4. Add cod fillets to pan, scatter olives connected top, past screen and navigator for a further 10 minutes, oregon until the food is afloat cooked (cooking clip whitethorn alteration depending connected size of the fish).
5. Serve topped with parsley.

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