Italian Tomatoes Recipes

Italian cooking is built on restraint — a handful of excellent ingredients treated simply, letting each one taste of itself. When Italian cooks work with tomatoes, they reach for olive oil, garlic, basil, oregano, tomatoes, parmesan and a good splash of wine, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, frying and sautéing.

Sweet-acidic fruit that forms the backbone of sauces, stews and salads across nearly every cuisine. In this collection it's most often cooked with olive oil, garlic, fine sea salt, extra-virgin olive oil, onion and dry white wine. The dishes here span italian classics ready in as little as 5 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Pasta all'Amatriciana – Guanciale, Tomato and Pecorino Pasta is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 18,700 ratings.