Parmesan

Offer this simple, hearty dish with a green salad, crusty garlic bread and a light red wine, like Beaujolais.

Called bianca, or "white," because they are sauceless, these crispy pizzas are the essence of clean flavor. The toppings are added after the crusts come out of the oven, melting the cheese slightly. This recipe makes two round pizzas or four rectangular ones.

From Ristorante Chianti, Geneva, Illinois.

This crowd-pleasing risotto works well as a main course—accompanied by green salad and crusty bread—or as a side dish for leftover chicken. Active time: 45 min Start to finish: 45 min

This beautiful appetizer boasts a delicate balance of leek and cheese flavor.

Crispy, Parmesan-crusted cutlets make this spring dish sing.

You’ll enjoy this dish here, there, and everywhere.

All pizza toppings welcome, especially pickled peppers, olives, maybe an anchovy or 10.

Skip the crushed red pepper flakes and reach for gochujang, which adds funk and spice in the marinara sauce for this reimagined twist on chicken Parm.

A brief simmer in chicken stock makes fennel meltingly tender, mellowing out its sharp licorice notes. A fennel dish to convert the fennel haters.

A comforting dinner the whole family will love.

This classic carbonara traps crispy pancetta and all that silky sauce in big tubes of rigatoni.

Canned butternut squash purée (find it by the canned pumpkin!) makes this cozy, cold-weather recipe come together in a snap.

Crisp-tender green beans meet a punchy Parmesan dressing in this easy, make-ahead fresh green bean salad that’s perfect for dinner parties or holidays.

This riff on the Italian classic comfort food gets its verdant color from kale two ways: blended into the base, and wilted among the pasts and white beans.

Salty pancetta and briny marinated artichokes are a perfect match in this luscious pasta featuring pantry-friendly ingredients.

This no-knead knockout gets its punch from tomatoes in two different ways.

A bowl of comfort with ricotta “meatballs,” tiny pasta, and lots of greens.