Recipes similar to Chicken Parmesan (our favorite version)

Chicken cacciatore is a another famous Italian chicken dish with many variations or different versions available worldwide. The basic method is to slow cook chicken pieces in red wine together with vegetables and herbs. This recipe uses, among other ingredients, black olives, capers and fresh basil leaves. The chicken pieces should be cooked slowly, over low heat for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. This might seem a lot, but it is what makes this dish so delicious.
 

Meatballs flavored with Italian herbs baked in the oven with tomato sauce, great with spaghetti or as a snack.
 

A classic Italian recipe, fettuccine boscaiola is fettuccine pasta served with a creamy sauce made with garlic, mushrooms, ham and dry white wine. Serve topped with shavings of parmesan cheese, freshly made garlic bread and a simple green salad for a complete meal.
 

Pasta with mushrooms in pesto sauce is a simple, easy to make, yet extremely delicious Italisn dish. As with most pasta dishes, the sauce is made while the pasta is cooking. This dish can be ready in 10 to 15 minutes, provided that you have soaked the dried mushrooms in advance. You can substitute the dried mushrooms with regular mushrooms but the taste will be far from the one when using dried one. You can also use a ready made pesto sauce, but it is very easy to make your own, and it will taste much better for sure.
 

Bolognese (or bolognaise) sauce is one of the most well know Italian sauces for pasta. It is typically based on ground beef, celery, onion, carrot, tomatoes and a series of ingredients such as spices and seasonings that vary according to the recipe. This recipe takes some time to prepare but is one of the best recipes for bolognese sauce. You can serve the bolognese sauce over spaghetti or other type of pasta such as penne.
 

A delicious Italian chicken dish, chicken flamingo is chicken breast coated in Italian seasoned breadcrumbs, panfried, topped with 3 different types of cheese and served in a white wine butter, garlic and lemon juice sauce with broccoli and mushrooms. This dish is ideal for dinner, served with garlic bread or pasta and a simple green salad.
 

The deep pan or deep dish pizza is very popular in Chicago. The pizza dough is light and flaky and covers not only the bottom of the pan but the sides as well. Unlike other pizzas, the tomato sauce in this recipe goes on the top of the pizza and not on the bottom (it is the last layer of the pizza, not the first one); furthermore, the pizza is baked for 35 to 40 minutes instead of the 5 to 10 minutes cooking time for regular pizzas. This Chicago style deep dish pizza recipe uses homemade Italian sausage and uncooked tomato sauce (recipes included).
 

Another variation of the classic Italian spaghetti puttanesca dish. It can be served as a starter or as a meal on its own.
 

This is the classic, famous Italian chicken Marsala recipe. It is healthy, quick and easy to prepare. It uses of course Marsala wine and porcini mushrooms, a special type of dried mushrooms very popular in Italian dishes.
 

Chicken breasts in a tarragon sauce