Ricotta

There are few Italian sweet more iconic than cannoli.

Thin slices of summer squash are rolled up with cool, creamy ricotta and herbs for an Italian-inspired bite that guests can pop into their mouths.

This creamy mushroom lasagna recipe keeps things relatively simple so the mushrooms can truly shine.

Rich, meaty, and incredibly satisfying, this streamlined lasagna is the ultimate comfort food.

You can make this tart, which is accented with fennel and Pernod, with cow’s milk ricotta or small-batch sheep’s milk ricotta, which tastes even better.

This quick and easy pasta recipe from Giuliano Hazan was inspired by tortelloni filling.

Freeze-dried blueberries sweeten this ricotta-enriched loaf cake.

This is a vegetable lasagna that cooks can enjoy, too, not only because it’s delicious, but because it’s simple and stress-free to prepare.

This cannoli recipe has the chocolate, pistachios, and candied orange peel mixed right into the creamy filling so you get optimal flavor in every bite.

This easy one-bowl cake recipe from Melissa Clark makes a gorgeous golden-topped cake with a moist crumb that’s deeply imbued with orange zest and olive oil.

Good things come to those who wait—three days, to be exact.

Kunafa is one of the most ubiquitous pastries across the Middle East and is such a simple dessert to make that it can be on the table in an hour.

These gozleme are stuffed with a mixture of three different cheeses to mimic the feta-like Turkish white cheese that’s often used for these flatbreads.

This oversize version of khachapuri, the Georgian cheese-filled bread, is both a time-saver and brilliant way to feed a group.

This khachapuri recipe makes all you need for a meal—a luscious cheesy, eggy, buttery bath to dip bread into.

The salty cheese and piloncillo makes these gorditas go wonderfully with a hot chocolate or champurrado.

The smoky charred peppers play well with the cool cucumbers and lemony ricotta. If you can’t find Italian frying peppers or just aren’t feeling them, grilled eggplant or zucchini would also pair well here.

You can fill this tart shell with your choice of sweet or savory fillings—from cheeses, to roast vegetables, to stone fruits.