Italian comfort food cooking
Recipe collection

Italian Recipes

Comforting Italian recipes by Simply by Maha: chicken parm with spicy rigatoni, garlic parmesan chicken pasta, lasagna, focaccia, and more.

Creamy pastas, crispy chicken parm, and beginner-friendly breads. My Italian recipes lean into comfort and big flavour, the dishes I cook when I want something cozy.

Recipes

Every Italian recipe

Chicken Parm with Spicy Rigatoni
Chicken Parm with Spicy Rigatoni

This chicken parm with spicy rigatoni is such a good dinner when you want something extra comforting. The crispy chicken, melted cheese, and creamy spicy pasta are such a good combo.

70 minItalian
Garlic Parmesan Chicken PastaDinner
Garlic Parmesan Chicken Pasta

This creamy garlic chicken pasta is an easy dinner that feels restaurant quality but is so simple to make at home. It has juicy seasoned chicken, a rich garlic cream sauce, and fettuccine tossed right into all that flavor.

40 minItalian
Chicken Alfredo LasagnaDinner
Chicken Alfredo Lasagna

This chicken Alfredo lasagna is creamy, cheesy, and such a comforting dinner. It’s layered with seasoned chicken, a rich homemade Alfredo sauce, lasagna sheets, and lots of mozzarella, then baked until golden on top.

75 minItalian
Marry Me Chicken PastaDinner
Marry Me Chicken Pasta

This marry me chicken is rich, creamy, and packed with flavor. The chicken is seasoned and pan-seared until golden, then finished in a creamy Tuscan-style sauce with parmesan, herbs, spinach, and cherry tomatoes. I love serving it with pasta so the sauce doesn’t go to waste.

60 minItalian
Easy Same-Day FocacciaAppetizers
Easy Same-Day Focaccia

This same-day focaccia is soft, fluffy, and so easy to make. It’s a super beginner-friendly bread recipe with a simple method and such a good result.

80 minItalian
Shrimp ScampiDinner
Shrimp Scampi

This shrimp scampi is rich, garlicky, buttery, and packed with flavor. Tossed with linguine, fresh parsley, lemon juice, and parmesan, it’s an easy pasta dish that feels restaurant-worthy but comes together so quickly.

40 minItalian
Bolognese PastaDinner
Bolognese Pasta

Bolognese pasta is one of my favorite comfort dishes — rich, hearty, and full of flavor. Slow-simmered with beef, vegetables, stock, and parmesan rind, this sauce gets better the longer it cooks and is perfect tossed with fettuccine.

140 minItalian
Boursin and Bruschetta DipSnacks
Boursin and Bruschetta Dip

This Boursin and bruschetta dip is one of the easiest appetizers ever, but it looks so good and tastes even better. It’s creamy, fresh, and flavorful with layers of herby cheese, bruschetta, cherry tomatoes, parmesan, and balsamic glaze — perfect with crackers on the side.

10 minItalian