Italian recipes
Basil pesto

Four ingredients combine to make a fresh, fragrant pasta sauce by Mark Sargeant

Basil ricotta-filled agnolini with tomato sauce

Enjoy a taste of Italy with Gennaro Contaldo's delicious recipe for ricotta-filled fresh pasta parcels served with a tomato sauce

Beef Carpaccio

Aaron Craze serves up this well-loved Italian starter, adding more flavours with beetroot, herbs and pecorino cheese

Beef Carpaccio salad

Eco-chef Arthur Potts Dawson creates a peppery rocket and radish salad with tender slivers of herb-encrusted beef

Beef fillet with balsamic reduction

Sticky-fried onions, succulent beef and reduced balsamic vinegar work well together in David Rocco's dinner party classic

Beef fillet with red peppers (filetto ai peperoni)

A wonderfully quick and delicious recipe from Valentina Harris: tender fillet steaks and sweet peppers with a mellow Marsala sauce

Beef fillet wrapped in prosciutto with wild mushrooms

Frank Bordoni's succulent roast beef is perfectly complemented with horseradish mash, a twist on a traditional combination of flavours

Beef intergarni with truffled mash and ruby chard

For a splendid meal serve up Ed Baines's recipe for wine-cooked beef with truffle-flavoured mash and ruby chard

Bellini

Enjoy a taste of Italy with Ed Baines' version of this classic cocktail created in Harrys Bar in Venice

Bellissimo cocktail

This dusty pink fruity cocktail from Wayne Collins is a real palette cleanser, it can be drunk as an aperitif or with nibbles

 

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