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Do you want to know more about the Grannies, discover their recipes, see behind the scenes, and improve your own cooking techniques? Well now you can get your place in the kitchen by joining the Pasta Grannies Club.

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Pasta Grannies Love Stories

Come with us for a week in Sicily as we follow the life of Caterina in this special longer episode close to our hearts. Available to watch now for club members.

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Recipes

Get exclusive, step-by-step recipes from our grannies and the Pasta Grannies team, straight from our kitchens to yours.

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Irene’s Penne All’Arrabbiata

  • 30 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 2

Antoniette’s Crostoli with Brocciu Filling

  • 20 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4-6

Livia’s Zucchini Ripiene

  • 45 minutes
  • Medium
  • Serves: 4

Linda’s Insalata di Riso

  • 30 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Andrea’s Salsiccia al Vino Rosso

  • 15 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Michaella’s Chargrilled Courgettes

  • 25 minutes (including cool time)
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4-6 as a side

Vicky’s Lime and Ginger Sorbet

  • 45 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Vicky’s Skorthalia

  • 15 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Livia’s Semifreddo with Apricots

  • 3 hours (including chill time)
  • Easy
  • Serves: 3

Michaella’s Zesty Green Salad with Dates

  • 15 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Concetta’s Almond Biscuits

  • 1 hour (including resting time)
  • Medium
  • Serves: 4-6

Michaella’s Mezzi Paccherri and Swordfish with Fennel, Pistachio and Pine Nuts

  • 30 mins
  • Medium
  • Serves: 4

Rina’s Zzippuli with chickpea flour

  • 20 mins (+ preparation time)
  • Easy
  • Serves: 6

Linda’s Pesto

  • 15 mins
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4-6
Free

Giulina’s Risi e Bisi

  • 30 mins (+ preparing time)
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Michaella’s Moroccan-Inspired Chicken Salad

  • 25 minutes (+ marinade time)
  • Easy
  • Serves: 2

Nonna Maria’s Cucca

  • 60 mins
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4-6 as a snack
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Sheetal’s Tuver na Baakda ma Dhokli

  • 1 hour
  • Medium
  • Serves: 4
Gnocchi with tomato ad chicken sauce on a wood table with checked table cloth

Pina’s Gnocchi with Chicken Tomato Sauce

  • 3 hours
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4
picturre of braised cauliflower in a red based sauce, sprinkled with chopped green parsley

Vicky’s Braised Cauliflower (Two Ways)

  • 20 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4
Chicchi's plain white risotto with swiss chard leaves mixed in, served in a white bowl.

Chicchi’s Risotto alle Bietole (Swiss Chard Risotto)

  • 40 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 2
Torta Pasqualina, on a wooden board, cut open to show the spinach, eggs and ricotta.

Linda’s Torta Pasqualina

  • 1 hour 45 mins
  • Medium
  • Serves: 4-6
Ricotta and sour cherry tart, baked golden brown with lattice shortcrust top and dusted with icing sugar

Michaella’s Ricotta and Sour Cherry Tart

  • 1 hour 30 mins
  • Medium
  • Serves: 2-4 depending on tin size
Paolo's chicken with olives, tomatoes.

Paolo’s Cacciatora Chicken

  • 3 hours
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4
Liv'as Easter Colomba tiramasu, served in a glass with strawberries and lemon mascarpone filling

Livia’s Tiramisu di Colomba Alle Fragole

  • 2 hours
  • Medium
  • Serves: 4

Pina’s Mother’s Riso al Latte (Rice Pudding)

  • 20 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Michaella’s Griddled Nectarine Superfood Salad

  • 25 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4
Antonia's fried cardoons

Antonia’s Fried Cardoons

  • 20 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4-6

Claudia’s passatelli recipe

  • 3 hours
  • Easy
  • Serves: 3

Claudia’s torta della nonna recipe

  • 35 prep time + 30 minutes cooking time (+12 hours resting time for the dough)
  • Easy
  • Serves: 8-10

Vicky’s Braised Cavolo Nero with Fennel and Chilli

  • 40 minutes (30 minutes cooking time + 10 minutes prep time)
  • Easy
  • Serves: 3

Linda’s mezzelune with ricotta and spinach

  • 50 minutes + 30 minutes to let the dough rest
  • Easy
  • Serves: 3/4

Livia’s risotto with red wine and radicchio

  • 45 minutes (20 minutes prep time + 20 cooking time)
  • Easy
  • Serves: 3

Vicky’s fennel, cheese and hazelnuts salad

  • 5 minutes (prep time)
  • Easy
  • Serves: 1

Megan’s Lamb, Aubergine and Orzo recipe

  • 50 minutes (15 mins pre time + 35 cooking time)
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Charlie’s Blue Cheese Sauce

  • 20 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 2-3

Leondina’s roast rabbit

  • 2 hours 45 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Leondina’s piadina

  • 1 hour
  • Easy
  • Serves: 5

Rina’s Fior di Latte

  • 2 hours 15 minutes + cooling time
  • Easy
  • Serves: 6-8

Rina’s Vitello Tonnato 

  • 1 hour 15 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4-6

Livia’s lasagna alla bolognese

  • 4 hours
  • Easy
  • Serves: 8-10

Rosa’s Chicken Roll

  • 1 hour 45 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Rosa’s Latte Brulè 

  • 2 hours
  • Medium
  • Serves: 4

Linda’s pizzocheri alla valtellinese

  • 40 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Isolina’s polpettone

  • 1 hour
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Dave’s oven baked gnocchi (Njokki l-forn)

  • 40 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 5/6

Isolina’s polenta with ragù

  • 2 hours
  • Medium
  • Serves: 4

Andrea’s Spaghetti Carbonara

  • 30 minutes
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

Linda’s Homemade Gnocchi

  • 1 hour
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4-5

Maria’s Gnocco Fritto

  • 1 hour + dough rest (max 12 hrs)
  • Expert
  • Serves: 10
Free

Maria’s Roast Chicken Thighs

  • 35 mins
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4
Free

Livia’s Ragu Tagliatelle

  • 3 hrs
  • Medium
  • Serves: 6
Free

Megan’s White Pork Ragu

  • 55 mins
  • Easy
  • Serves: 3-4
Free

Vicky’s Tomato Sauce

  • 30 mins
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4
Free

Letizia’s Tagliatelle with Pureed Dried Broad Beans

  • 90 mins
  • Easy
  • Serves: 6

Maria’s VOV Liqueur Recipe

  • 45 mins
  • Easy
  • Serves: 8+
Free

Cesaria’s Lorighittas with Chicken

  • 75 mins
  • Expert
  • Serves: 4
Free

Linda’s Aubergine Parmigiana

  • 45 mins
  • Easy
  • Serves: 4

PASTA GRANNIES BLOG

Read the latest blog posts from the Pasta Grannies team!

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A Few Of Our Favourite Things #3

Recommendations for your cupboard, kitchen, and things to enjoy. This week: savour the last of the summer wine.
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Making Shapes

Come with Livia and some of our grannies to pasta making competitions in Emilia-Romagna.
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A Few Of Our Favourite Things #2

Recommendations for your cupboard, kitchen, and things to enjoy. This week: we’re going ‘back to school’ in pasta.
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Italy in August

Linda returns home to Italy for August and shares some of her favourite memories; Livia gives us a food festival update from her granny network.
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A Few Of Our Favourite Things #1

Recommendations for your cupboard, kitchen, and other things enjoy. This week: tomatoes!
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Postcards from Team Pasta Grannies

Some snapshots of summer from Team Pasta Grannies.
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In the Kitchen with…Somaia Hammad

We dine at Nipotina in London and chat to head chef Somaia about the dishes inspired by her Nonna Lina.
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A Gelato with Team Pasta Grannies

Team Pasta Grannies share their favourite ice cream flavours, and the holiday memories that are served alongside.
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Memories of Corfu Town and Skorthalia

Vicky shares memories of summer in Corfu vegetable market and the story behind the recipe for Greek dip, Skorthalia.
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In the Kitchen with…Michele Pascarella

We speak to Michele Pascarella, the winner of the 2025 50 Top Pizza Award for Europe; he shares his top tips with us!
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A Pasta Granny in Every Port

Setting sail around the Med in search of shared culinary traditions.
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The Magic of Granny Finding

Michaella shares her first-hand experience of watching Livia in action, Granny finding in Calabria.
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Meet Le Nonne of Calabria

Meeting le nonne at the Calabria Food Festival
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Say cheese!

A visit to a ricotta and mozzarella farm in Cardinale, Calabria
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GET TO KNOW OUR NONNAS

In our Get to Know Our Nonnas series, we sit down with our beloved nonnas, to hear their stories, memories, and life lessons. Each episode features a special nonna who shares personal anecdotes, from childhood adventures to moments of wisdom, bringing their rich history to life.

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Irene Garzelli

Francesco

Ernestina

Michela

Isa Bruno

Lucia Pano

Antonino

Zudda

Sara

Addolorata and Rosanna

Behind the scenes

Come along with us on our trips across Italy! See how we work as a team to organize our travels, meet the grannies, and capture the magic of pasta making

Behind the scenes of Ines’Cuttlefish a Sarsa Friday video

Sicily trip: wild asparagus, citrus heaven, tiny kitchens…and more!

Behind the scenes of a Pasta Competition in Italy!

Sicily trip: Sicilian breakfast foods, bumpy roads, artichoke fields…and more!

Sicily trip: Palermo’s street food

Veneto & Trentino Alto Adige trip

Piedmont trip

Trip to Naples and Ischia

Christmas in Genoa

Trip to Lombardia – Part 2

Farm to Table

Meet the Italian artisans behind the ingredients we love. We film the people who craft the flour, cheese, and other essentials that make our pasta special

Cheese horse

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Ricotta making

Gorgonzola production

Parmigiano Production

Radicchio production

Sauerkraut production in Northern Italy!

Grey cheese and butter from Südtirol

Vicky Explains

Join me as I break down everything you need to know about pasta— from techniques to tips, I’ll share the secrets behind the perfect pasta dish.

Boards and Pins

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Flour Basics

Pasta Doughs

Tomato passata

Tinned tomatoes

Soffritto

Troubleshooting Pasta Doughs

Troubleshooting tomato sauce

Troubleshooting beans

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A brilliant book for cooks of all levels. You don’t have to make all the pasta from scratch you can adapt a lot of the recipes to suit your life and way of cooking.
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Another great, down to earth and genuine cook book from this author, who eschews the affectations of tv chefs for the very heart of Italian cuisine. It's a joy to read the stories of the people at the root of Italian rustic cookery and try to follow their lead.
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LOVE this book! Everything is so comforting and delicious. It feels like home, simple, tasty and enjoyable. I’ve already made a few recipes and got the other Pasta Grannies book too.
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The Pasta Grannies Podcast

The Pasta Grannies podcast is hosted by Vicky Bennison, creator of the successful YouTube Channel, Pasta Grannies! In her videos, she travels Italy collecting real Italian grandmothers to share their delicious, traditional cooking with you. This brand-new podcast will pay homage to these wonderful nonnas and their recipes.

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