Ricotta Pistachio Roll Cake, a beautiful yet simple dessert with a sweet ricotta filling that will remind you of your favorite Sicilian dessert, cannoli!| Mangia Bedda
Made without yeast and ready in under an hour, these easy Italian lemon ricotta doughnuts are delicious served warm with a sprinkling of sugar.| Mangia Bedda
PrintMortadella, Ricotta and Pistachio Pesto Pizza| www.mangiabedda.com
Sicilian veal involtini, delicious rolled bundles of veal filled with seasoned breadcrumbs and cheese, skewered and grilled to perfection!| Mangia Bedda
Sicilian Pistachio and Nutella Cake beautifully showcases pistachios from Bronte, Sicily both inside and on top of the cake.| Mangia Bedda
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One of the easiest crustless ricotta cheesecake recipes flavored with pistachio paste. Just stir all ingredients together and bake!| Mangia Bedda
Baked ricotta, one of the easiest ways to enjoy fresh ricotta! Bake whole ricotta until golden and enjoy as a sweet or savory appetizer.| Mangia Bedda
When you're in a hurry to get dinner on the table and want something nourishing and comforting Pasta with Peas and Potatoes is for you!| Mangia Bedda
When there's not much in the fridge you can have Pasta and Chickpeas in Tomato Sauce ready in 30 minutes. Dellicious, comforting and healthy!| Mangia Bedda
Broccoli and Potato Soup with Pasta, just a few simple ingredients to create a delicious and comforting peasant food dish!| Mangia Bedda
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Fresh and light, this tomato cucumber onion salad with celery is the perfect summer salad. Serve with crusty bread to soak up the juices!| Mangia Bedda
A fresh, sugar free summer fruit salad is an easy, healthy way to end a meal on a hot day. Perfect to take along to BBQs or potlucks!| Mangia Bedda
Homemade roasted red bell peppers are easy to make any time of year and can be stored in your freezer. So many delicious ways to enjoy them!| Mangia Bedda
Italian Green Bean Salad, the side dish of choice this time of year! Tender green beans are tossed with a simple vinaigrette to create this summer staple!| Mangia Bedda
Grilled Tuna and White Bean Salad, the perfect and easy to make summer one dish meal that's light and refreshing yet filling.| Mangia Bedda
PrintCheesy Swiss Chard and Potato Casserole Recipe| www.mangiabedda.com
The chill of fall is in the air so it's time to turn to hearty satisfying meals such as Swiss Chard and White Bean Stew made with fresh harvest ingredients.| Mangia Bedda
Swiss chard fritters, or crispeddi chi giri as we call them in Sicilian, made with tender swiss chard leaves fresh from the garden stirred into a pastella (batter and pan fried. A tasty snack or side dish!| Mangia Bedda
Swiss Chard Filled Pizza (Pizza con bietole) is a classic double crust pizza filled with sautéed swiss chard, black olives and mozzarella.| Mangia Bedda
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Grilled Eggplant Involtini: eggplant slices rolled around a savory breadcrumb filling and mozzarella, the perfect appetizer or side dish!| Mangia Bedda
Crispy Baked Eggplant Cutlets, crunchy a delicious and satisfying vegetarian main dish or side dish. Crunchy yet with no frying required!| Mangia Bedda
The perfect combination of classic Italian flavors: baked eggplant and potatoes with tomato sauce. Serve with crust bread as a complete meal!| Mangia Bedda
Sicilian gelo di limone is a refreshing lemony treat made with only 4 ingredients on the stove top. The perfect no bake summer dessert!| Mangia Bedda
Bomboloni-pistachio custard filled doughnuts, are made with my easy Sicilian brioche dough. Perfect for breakfast, dessert or as a snack!| Mangia Bedda
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These easy pistachio cream brioche rolls combine my brioche dough recipe, a jar of pistachio cream and chopped pistachios for extra crunch!| Mangia Bedda
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Italian Sugar Doughnuts (Ciambelle fritte) are enjoyed for breakfast in bars and cafés in Italy along with a cappuccino. These have the perfect soft and fluffy texture you want in a doughnut!| Mangia Bedda
Granita al limone, or lemon granita, made with only 3 ingredients is the perfect refreshing dairy free treat on a hot summer's day!| Mangia Bedda
Cartocci siciliani made with a doughnut-like dough wrapped around cannoli forms, fried, dredged in sugar and filled with sweet ricotta cream!| Mangia Bedda
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Light, crisp, not too sweet and flavored with anise seed, these Italian anise biscotti are the cookies you need to dunk in your cup of coffee!| Mangia Bedda
These 3 ingredient hazelnut cookies are pure hazelnut flavor and have a wonderful chewy texture. Prepare a batch in just a few minutes!| Mangia Bedda
Easter would not be complete without Sicilian Easter Bread (cuddura cu l'ova), a traditional braided bread with eggs!| Mangia Bedda
Pizza Rustica (Italian Easter Pie Recipe) a savory pie filled with eggs, cheese, and cured meats typically served the day after Easter (Pasquetta).| Mangia Bedda
Almond Paste Cookies with Icing (Paste Reali) originally from the Puglia region of Italy and made either at Easter or Christmas.| Mangia Bedda
Sicilian Cassatelle with Ricotta, are ricotta filled pastries served during Carnevale in Italy. These treats can be enjoyed baked or fried!| Mangia Bedda
Pasta with ricotta is an easy last minute dinner idea. A simple 2 ingredient recipe to make the perfect Italian comfort food.| Mangia Bedda
Mortadella, Ricotta and Pistachio Pesto Pizza, three simple ingredients that perfectly complement one another to create my new favorite pizza!| Mangia Bedda
A tradition at Easter time but perfect all year long, my Mom's Sicilian Ricotta Pie recipe is an authentic tried and true recipe.| Mangia Bedda
Pasta with potatoes, a few basic and inexpensive ingredients transformed into a flavorful satisfying dish, all in one pot and ready in no time!| Mangia Bedda
Italian potato salad with roasted red peppers and tomatoes. the perfect side dish for the summer or hearty enough to enjoy as your main dish.| Mangia Bedda
Ham and cheese skillet potato focaccia, a quick and easy last minute dinner idea (no leavening required) and a great empty the fridge recipe!| Mangia Bedda
Cheesy Swiss Chard and Potato Casserole, a great way to use garden fresh chard and the perfect side dish everyone will enjoy!| Mangia Bedda
Pasta alla Norma (Eggplant Pasta) is a classic Sicilian pasta dish with few ingredients: eggplants, tomatoes, fresh basil and ricotta salata.| Mangia Bedda
Just like I've enjoyed all my life, mom's eggplant parmigiana recipe is unlike all others adding unique ingredients such as hard boiled eggs and mortadella.| Mangia Bedda
Homemade Sicilian Maccheroni is the must eat pasta dish in my parents home town of Naso (Me). It has a most satisfying bite to it!| Mangia Bedda
Eggplant Caponata an iconic Sicilian eggplant recipe with onions, celery, and olives and is distinct for it's sweet and sour flavors.| Mangia Bedda
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Sweet Ricotta Easter Calzone is a simple, gluten free, traditional Easter dessert as made in the town of Sannicandro, in the Puglia region.| Mangia Bedda
This festive Italian braided Easter bread with eggs is made with sweet brioche dough nestled with colorful eggs and bright candy sprinkles.| Mangia Bedda
This easy no crust Easter Pastiera has all the flavors of this traditional Neapolitan dessert but without the crust!| Mangia Bedda
Easter would not be complete without Sicilian Easter Bread (cuddura cu l'ova), a traditional braided bread with eggs!| Mangia Bedda
This fragrant orange scented chocolate chip brioche bread is perfect for breakfast, a mid-day snack or transform leftovers into french toast.| Mangia Bedda
Soft, fluffy and not too sweet these brioche sugar twists are great for breakfast or as a snack. And best of all they are baked not fried!| Mangia Bedda
Tetù (Sicilian Chocolate Spice Cookies), traditional rich, dense chocolate cookies flavored with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and orange zest.| Mangia Bedda
Sicilian Easter Cookies with Eggs are distributed to family and friends, a tradition that my mother has maintained throughout the years!| Mangia Bedda
Pistachio Amaretti, a twist on traditional amaretti, a favourite classic Italian cookie. Crisp on the inside and soft and chewy on the inside.| Mangia Bedda
Italian Breakfast Cookies are enjoyed for breakfast in Italian households with warm milk with or without coffee. The perfect dunking cookie!| Mangia Bedda
A classic Sicilian Christmas cookie, cuccidati are filled with a combination of figs, almonds, orange marmelade, chocolate, cinnamon.| Mangia Bedda
Satisfyingly crunchy, infused with orange and nutty flavor, biscotti Regina or Sicilian sesame seed cookies are perfect with your coffee, tea or glass of sweet wine!| Mangia Bedda
Soft, buttery and fragrant with anise seed and cinnamon, biscotti di San Martino, traditional Sicilian cookies are enjoyed on November 11th.| Mangia Bedda
Rice and eggplant timbale, a Sicilian baked casserole layered with eggplant, rice in tomato sauce with peas, mozzarella and hard boiled eggs.| Mangia Bedda
Sicilian lasagna has several layers of deliciousness combining meat ragu with peas, creamy bechamel sauce, mozzarella and chopped hard-boiled eggs. All perfectly balanced to create the perfect lasagna!| Mangia Bedda
Crepe Lasagna is made up of layers of melt in your mouth crepes, meat sauce and mozzarella. Surprisingly lighter than your typical pasta lasagna.| Mangia Bedda
Vegetarian cauliflower meatballs are soft, with an almost creamy texture and cheesy. They are tasty either fried or baked!| Mangia Bedda
Pine nut cookies known as pignoli (or pinoli) are naturally gluten and dairy free, Easy to prepare in under 15 minutes with only 5 ingredients!| Mangia Bedda
Pineapple Layer Cake with Pastry Cream, a moist and refreshing cake made by combining a simple sponge cake and pastry cream, Two basic recipes that are the building blocks of so many wonderful desserts!| Mangia Bedda
Transform plain polenta into polenta lasagna layered with creamy butternut squash; spinach béchamel sauce and mozzarella for a hearty meal.| Mangia Bedda
Easy to make soft and fluffy cinnamon rolls with apples made with my brioche dough recipe are delicious for breakfast or mid-day snack.| Mangia Bedda
Making homemade vegetable broth doesn't get any easier than this! Simmer vegetables and herbs, strain and use for soups or risotto recipes.| Mangia Bedda
Scacciata with potato and sausage filling is a delicious Sicilian style double crusted pizza easily made with my no knead pizza dough recipe to create a hearty, satisfying dish. Enjoy as a snack or for lunch and make sure to have leftovers for breakfast, you won't be disappointed! A scacciata, also known as schiacciata is| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
Scacciata with Cauliflower and Black Olives is a traditional Sicilian double crusted filled pizza as made in the province of Catania, Sicily. This delicious dish can be assembled in very little time using my easy no knead pizza dough recipe! Scacciata with Cauliflower and Black Olives is a traditional Sicilian double crusted filled pizza as| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
Parigina Pizza is a classic Neapolitan style pizza filled with prosciutto cotto, provolone cheese and covered with puff pastry for a flaky, golden topping. A classic snack food found in bars and rosticcerie throughout Italy. This simple recipe is even easier to make with my no knead pizza dough recipe as the base! Parigina Pizza| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
No knead dough can be used to make so much more than bread or pizza. These rustic style Olive and Cheese Buns (No Knead Recipe) are perfect for your breadbasket, as a great snack or for summer picnics! No knead dough can be used to make so much more than bread or pizza. These rustic| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
This is the no knead skillet focaccia bread recipe you need! Just stir all the ingredients for the dough together, let sit overnight, top with herbs of your choice and bake in a cast iron skillet until golden, crisp and incredibly light and airy. So many options to serve this herbed focaccia! This is the| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
This easy no knead fig and walnut bread is fragrant with cinnamon and lightly sweetened with honey. All is you have to do is stir all the ingredients together and forget about it for 6-24 hours. Enjoy slathered with butter or cream cheese for breakfast, as a snack or any time of day! I love| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
With a delicious contrast of sweet and savory flavors, soft and fluffy on the inside and crisp on the outside, this fig and rosemary focaccia could not be any easier to make with my easy no knead pizza dough recipe! I've taken a basic rosemary focaccia recipe and elevated it by topping it with fresh| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
Turn your favorite pizza toppings into stuffed rolls, the perfect finger food for your holiday gatherings, picnics or snacks. Mortadella, pistachio pesto and mozzarella are baked inside my no knead pizza dough for an easy treat you can put together in no time. Inspired by my favorite mortadella and pistachio pesto pizza, I used the| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
This is the easiest no knead pizza dough recipe you'll ever make! No kneading or fancy equipment necessary, this will become your go-to pizza recipe. Follow my step by step instructions and tips for the perfect pizza every time! This is the easiest no knead pizza dough recipe you'll ever make! No kneading or fancy| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
Stuffed Baby Eggplant with a savory vegetarian breadcrumb filling can be enjoyed as a side dish, main dish. Stuffed Baby Eggplant with a vegetarian breadcrumb filling can be enjoyed as a side dish, main dish or they are small enough to be served as an antipasto dish. 4 baby eggplant ((about 600 grams or 1.3| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
Sicilian Sweet and Sour Meatballs consist of my mother's basic meatball recipe combined with a simple savory sauce of vinegar and sugar. Serve this typical Sicilian dish as antipasto or second course. Sicilian Sweet and Sour Meatballs consist of my mother's basic meatball recipe combined with a simple savory sauce of vinegar and sugar. Serve| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
This Italian meatball stew with potoates and peas is a hearty, satisfying meal that is comforting any time of year! Enjoy on it's own along with fresh crusty Italian bread or it's also delicious served with pasta or rice. I don't know anyone who doesn't love a good meatball! Whether it's traditional meatballs on Sunday| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
Roasting peaches brings out their natural sweetness and are delicious paired with ice cream, yogurt, sweetened ricotta or mascarpone cream. Maple Roasted Peaches are a perfect and easy way to end a summer's evening meal! Roasting peaches brings out their natural sweetness and are delicious paired with ice cream, yogurt, sweetened ricotta or mascarpone cream.| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
The perfect summer dessert, this fruit tart is made with a sweet buttery crust filled with pastry cream, or crema pasticcera, and topped with fresh, seasonal fruit. So much easier to make than you think! This is the perfect dessert to enjoy during the summer months. Fruit tarts are refreshing, filled with a lemon infused| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
Balsamic strawberries with vanilla ice cream, an easy no bake dessert that's perfect for summer barbecues. Strawberries are combined with balsamic vinegar and granulated sugar to create a sweet, sticky syrup that's delicious served over vanilla ice cream. Balsamic strawberries with vanilla ice cream, an easy no baking required dessert that's perfect for summer barbecues.| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
Pasta con finocchietto selvatico or wild fennel pasta is an easy Sicilian pasta recipe elevated with anchovies and crispy sautéed breadcrumbs and adding a lovely depth flavor and texture to this simple dish. And it's ready in about 30 minutes! Just a few simple ingredients: wild fennel; red onion; anchovies; and breadcrumbs (muddica), all tossed| Mangia Bedda - Preserving tradition one recipe at a time
A delicious way to transform your basic Italian meatball recipe! Enjoy these stuffed meatballs with green peas and mozzarella as a main dish.| Mangia Bedda
Make homemade crusty Italian rolls with my easy no knead panini bread recipe! Enjoy filled with your favorite sandwich ingredients.| Mangia Bedda
This seafood crepes recipe is filled with shrimp and scallops in a creamy béchamel sauce, topped with Gruyère cheese and baked until bubbly.| Mangia Bedda
Spinach and ricotta brioche buns, known as ravazzate in Sicily, are a typical Sicilian street food. The perfect snack, great for gatherings!| Mangia Bedda
These delectable Sicilian anise lemon taralli are crisp on the outside and soft and crumbly on the inside, it's hard to stop at only one!| Mangia Bedda
This stuffed cucuzza recipe is filled with my mom's best Sicilian meatball mixture and simmered in tomato sauce until rich and fragrant!| Mangia Bedda
This Sicilian cucuzza recipe combines squash, onion, potatoes, tomatoes and fresh basil with pasta to create the perfect end of summer meal!| Mangia Bedda