Italian Inspired Dishes

Garlic Chicken Puttanesca. One of the quickest, easiest and most flavourful pasta dinners ever. Sure to become a weekday family favourite.

Italian Sausage Meatballs. Beautifully tender meatballs with the added flavour of Italian sausage added to the mix.

Low Fat Baked Panko Chicken Parmesan with roasted tomato jam. A fantastically flavourful, lower fat, baked version of Chicken Parmesan with the crunch of panko crumbs and the intense flavour of Roasted Tomato Jam.

Leftover chicken spaghetti with bacon may be the perfect early week meal, which uses leftovers from Sunday dinner.

Penne Pasta Salad with Shrimp Chili & Lime. A deliciously simple pasta salad that’s terrific to serve with cold cuts, grilled, chicken  or fish, or as an ideal BBQ side dish.

Puttanesca Pasta Salad – a simple and delicious pasta salad with the bright tomato flavour of a puttanesca sauce that can be served hot or cold.

Baked Parmesan Panko Pork Chops. No need for frying, this oven baked, lower fat pork chop recipe is delicious served with pasta and your favourite simple marinara or puttanesca sauce.

The best Bolognese sauce is not a tomato sauce, it is a deep richly flavoured beef sauce with very few ingredients & takes it’s time simmering to perfection.

Tomato Parmesan Tart. Perfect for a celebration lunch with a gluten free option for the pastry too. It would also make a simple light appetizer course for your next dinner party.

Italian Sausage Pasta Puttanesca. A quick and easy dinner using grilled Italian or other sausage. You can have this one on the table in mere minutes and you can even use leftover sausage!