10 All-Italian Pasta Recipes You Need to Master

Potatoes, flour and eggs is all you need to prepare delicious homemade gnocchi.

Rustic and hearty, baked pasta is ideal for large family/friend gatherings.

Hearty yet healthy, pasta and beans soup is perfect for a chilly night (vegetarians, you don't need to add any meat to it).

Creamy and indulgent, pasta (usually spaghetti) alla carbonara is a Roman dish now famous worldwide. It's quick and easy to master!

A cherished, hearty, and tasty dish that has become a symbol of Bologna (and of Sunday lunch) - try the official recipe by the Italian Culinary Academy and the Dotta Confraternita del Tortellino (Learned Brotherhood of the Tortellino).

Everyone loves a good pasta alla Norma, a classic eggplant- and tomato-based recipe from Sicily.

The spicy favorite of Italian cuisine! Easy recipe - it's basically pasta with tomato sauce and cheese - it gets its delicious kick from chili - peperoncino.

Literally "cheese and pepper", this minimalist recipe calls for only a few ingredients, but the key to perfection lies in "pan sauce precision".

A staple ingredient of Italian cuisine, when done properly, it makes even a simple spaghetti al pomodoro shine! Make it at home in the late summer to last for the year.

In her "The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking", Marcella Hazan writes: "No other preparation is more successful in delivering the prodigious satisfactions of Italian cooking than a competently executed sauce with tomatoes."

Ligurian Pesto is the second most popular sauce for pasta after the classic tomato one. Here's the official recipe from the Consortium of Pesto Genovese.