Recipes · Bread
Italian Bread Recipes
Focaccia, ciabatta, grissini and garlic bread — long ferments, wet dough, plenty of olive oil.
Liguria · 55 min
Focaccia Genovese
Salty, oily, dimpled Ligurian focaccia.
Tuscany · 1 hr 15 min
Pane Toscano
Unsalted Tuscan bread built for salty food.
Piedmont · 50 min
Grissini Torinesi
Hand-rolled Turin breadsticks, crisp end to end.
Emilia-Romagna · 35 min
Piadina Romagnola
Griddled flatbread for squacquerone and prosciutto.
Puglia · 1 hr 10 min
Taralli Pugliesi
Wine-and-fennel rings boiled then baked crisp.
Bread recipe questions
- How many italian bread recipes are on this page?
- 5. Every one includes an ingredient list with quantities, numbered steps, prep and cook times, and Larry's rule for the part people usually get wrong.
- Which of these italian bread recipes is quickest?
- Piadina Romagnola — about 35 min from start to table, serving 6 piadine.
- Where in Italy do these bread recipes come from?
- Mostly Liguria, Tuscany, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Puglia. Each recipe page names the region it belongs to and the version Larry actually cooks at home.
- Are these italian bread recipes beginner friendly?
- Yes. Nothing here needs special equipment beyond a skillet, a pot and an oven, and each recipe calls out the timings and temperatures that matter most.