Dishes made with ricotta
6 dishes from around the world that list ricotta as a main ingredient.
Lasagnalasagne
🇮🇹 ItalyBaked layers of pasta sheets, sauce, cheese and fillings from Italy
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
CannoliVegetarianCannolo
🇮🇹 ItalySicilian fried pastry tubes filled with sweet ricotta cream
Pie or savoury pastry, Snacks, Tea time
PastizzVegetarianPastizzi
🇲🇹 Malta and 5 moreMaltese savoury pastry filled with ricotta or curried peas
Pie or savoury pastry, Breakfast, Snacks
Barbajuan
🇲🇨 Monaco and 2 moreFried pastry parcels filled with chard, cheese and rice from Monaco and the Riviera
Pie or savoury pastry, Snacks, Tea time
PastieraVegetarianpastiera napoletana
🇮🇹 ItalyNeapolitan tart with ricotta, wheat, and orange flower water, made for Easter
Sweet or dessert
Cappelletti
🇮🇹 ItalyRing-shaped stuffed pasta from central Italy, often served in broth
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Barbajuan: Lemone, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lasagna: Breville USA, CC BY 2.0, source
- Cannoli: Paolo Piscolla, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Pastiera: Mattia Luigi Nappi ( Mattia Luigi Nappi ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cappelletti: Lungoleno, CC BY-SA 2.5, source