Italian main dish recipes with 400 or fewer calories

Pork Sausage with Braised Fennel

This is one of our most popular dishes at SPQR. You can cook the sausage any way you like but I'd recommend…

Lemon & Rosemary Grilled Chicken

This is so easy and so good you will think you went out for dinner! Enjoy and Cook with Love, Catherine

seared breast of chicken with mashed fennel,

seared breast of chicken with mashed fennel,

Basil Pesto Chicken

yummy pesto sauce mixed with your choice of pasta along with cherry tomates and bites of chicken.

Ricotta Gnocchi

Simple pasta dish

Bowties with Spinach and Barley.

20 minute Skillet Baked Eggplant Parmesan

Delicious Italian Dish-so easy and so tasty!

Chicken with Marsala Mushroom Sauce

Chicken with Marsala Mushroom Sauce is tender chicken breasts sautéed and covered with a fabulously rich…

Arrabbiata Sauce

This easy, versatile sauce is revved up with a jolt of crushed red pepper for extra flavor. Perfect over penne pasta, with shrimp, scallops or…

BBQ Chicken Calzone

Ah, the calzone. “They’re delicious, but I could never make one myself,” you say. That’s all about to change, my friend. Not only is it easy to…

Easy Lasagna

Italian comfort food. Freezes and reheats well.

Pasta Primavera With Cheese

This is a nice dish to make in late summer when fresh vegetables are plentiful and less expensive. It's also very flexible. Any pasta and vegetables…

Polenta with Home Style Marinara Sauce

Polenta with Home Style Marinara Sauce is a delicious, meatless, traditional Italian dish. Try this for dinner…

Pancetta, French Lentil and Spinach Risotto

A quartet of alliums—onion, leek, shallot, and garlic—imbues savory flavor to this entrée dotted with green…

Braised Lentils with Spinach (Lenticchie Brasate)

Adapted from: Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich. This is delicious side dish…