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Ricotta Recipes

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5 recipes

Baked Ziti with ziti, ricotta and mozzarella — USA recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Baked Ziti

Baked Ziti is a popular American dish of Italian origin — a casserole of tubular pasta, tomato sauce with meat and several types of cheese. Hearty and perfect for family dinners or large groups.

90 min650 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Lasagna with lasagna pasta, ground beef and ricotta — Italy recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Lasagna

Lasagna is baked layers of wide pasta sheets, meat sauce, béchamel and cheese. This version also adds a layer of ricotta mixed with egg and Parmesan, the way Italian-American kitchens often do it, so it comes out denser and richer than a plain ragù-and-béchamel lasagne. Bake it 35–40 minutes and let it rest before cutting, so the layers set into clean squares.

85 min900 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Cannoli with ricotta, sugar and chocolate — Italy recipe

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Cannoli

Cannoli are Sicilian pastries: crisp tubes of fried dough filled with sweet ricotta cream, chocolate and orange zest. The dough is rolled thin, wrapped around metal tubes and fried until blistered, and the cream goes in just before serving.

90 min520 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Libum (Ancient Roman Cheese Cake) with ricotta, flour and egg — Italy recipe

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Libum (Ancient Roman Cheese Cake)

Libum is an ancient Roman cheese cake: fresh ricotta, a little flour and an egg, shaped into a flat disc, baked on bay leaves and eaten hot with honey. Cato the Elder wrote the recipe down in De Agri Cultura around 160 BCE, and it has not changed since — three ingredients, one method. Romans offered it to the household gods, the lares and penates, and ate it themselves on ordinary days. Served hot with honey, it turns from a plain dense cake into something that tastes unmistakably of antiquity. The 50 minutes cover shaping and baking; wet ricotta needs 30 to 60 minutes to drain first.

50 min500 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian💪High protein

Savillum (Ancient Roman Cheesecake) with ricotta, honey and poppy seeds — Italy recipe

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Savillum (Ancient Roman Cheesecake)

The oldest cheesecake recipe in the world: an ancient Roman cheesecake of ricotta, flour, honey and one egg, written down by Cato around 160 BC. It bakes for about 45 minutes, then gets glazed while still hot with more honey and a scattering of poppy seeds. The texture sits between a baked cheesecake and a dense honey pudding — nothing like the cream-cheese version, and far better than a 2,200-year-old recipe has any right to be. The hour covers mixing and baking; the ricotta needs at least 30 minutes of draining before that.

60 min295 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian💪High protein

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