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Live la dolce vita with 25 of our favourite summery Italian recipes

Transport yourself to the Amalfi coast without leaving home with these gorgeous golden recipes, perfect to mix and match for relaxed entertaining.

25 recipes
Perfect summer pasta: Linguine with spanner crab and coriander seeds.
EASY

Neil Perry's spanner crab linguine with crushed coriander seeds

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Heirloom caprese salad.
EASY

Heirloom caprese salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Kingfish crudo dressed with ginger, citrus, chilli and coriander oil.
EASY

Kingfish crudo with ginger-citrus dressing and quick coriander oil

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Spaghetti with spanner crab and pangrattato
EASY

Neil Perry's spaghetti with spanner crab and pangrattato

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Fast four-ingredient pizza with sopressa and tomato.
EASY

Fast four-ingredient pizza with sopressa and tomato

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Focaccia has been a welcome upside to lockdown. Here's how to make it at home.

Danielle Alvarez's focaccia with whipped garlic ricotta

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Squid ink pasta with scallops, chilli, tomato and garlic.

Squid-ink pasta with scallops, chilli, tomato and garlic

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Prawn pasta, heavy on the herbs, with 'pretend fancy sauce' and optional zucchini flowers.

Prawn pasta with pretend fancy sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Prawn spaghetti

King prawn spaghetti with prawn oil

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Vary this go-to pasta dish by adding some cherry tomatoes or even a sprinkling of toasted breadcrumbs.
EASY

Linguine with spicy tuna, olives and capers

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's lush lobster pasta.
EASY

Neil Perry’s lobster and pancetta spaghetti

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Belly porchetta with fennel, sage and chilli.
EASY

Pork belly easy porchetta recipe with fennel, sage and chilli

  • Adam Liaw
Zucchini caprese.
EASY

Adam Liaw's zucchini caprese

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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EASY

Bruschetta with cherry tomatoes, basil, olives and feta

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry tiramisu.

Tiramisu

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
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Frying-pan focaccia.

Frying-pan focaccia

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Lemon gelato.
EASY

Lemon gelato

  • 2 hrs +
The sbagliato cocktail.
EASY

Sbagliato

  • < 30 mins
  • Fred Siggins
Burrata cheese with charred zucchini and spring onions.
EASY

Burrata with charred zucchini and spring onion recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Grilled rockmelon, mozzarella and prosciutto salad.
EASY

Grilled rockmelon, mozzarella and prosciutto salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
When it comes to pizza, there's nothing better than homemade.

Neil Perry's rocket and prosciutto summer pizza recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Raspberry panna cotta

Raspberry panna cotta

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Garlic bread salad
EASY

Garlic bread salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's insalata di mare.

Adam Liaw's Italian seafood salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
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Spring arancini with molten cheese centres.

Arancini with peas, spinach, mint and smoked scamorza

  • 2 hrs +
  • Karen Martini

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/live-la-dolce-vita-with-25-of-our-favourite-summery-italian-recipes-20230109-h2925r.html