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Rachel Roddy

Rachel Roddy is an English food writer and author based in Rome. Her three books include An A-Z of Pasta

October 2024

  • Rachel Roddy's bean stew with lots of herbs.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for bean stew with lots of herbs

    A hearty, carby comfort bowl with optional crumbled sausage

September 2024

  • Rachel Roddy's chicken and grapes.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for braised chicken with grapes, wine and vinegar

    Firm, sweet grapes make this one of my favourite dishes
  • Rachel Roddy's spaghetti carbonara.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spaghetti alla carbonara like it’s 1979

    Cream or no cream? Onions or no? What sort of cured pork, or cheese? And who knew that spaghetti ‘carbonara’ probably didn’t exist before 1950?

    • A kitchen in Rome
      ‘We called her the vegetable whisperer’: Rachel Roddy on the cook who inspired her

    • A kitchen in Rome
      Rachel Roddy’s recipe for tomato crumble

    • A kitchen in Rome
      Rachel Roddy’s recipe for courgette, rice and herb filo pie

August 2024

  • Rachel Roddy's baked chicken thighs with tomatoes, and a green bean, lettuce and parmesan salad 1250

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for baked chicken with tomatoes, and a green bean salad

  • Rachel Roddy's pasta alla checca – pasta with a raw tomato, mozzarella, herb and olive sauce.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pasta with a raw tomato, mozzarella, herb and olive sauce

  • Rachel Roddy's hazelnut cake with fig compote.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for hazelnut and walnut cake with fig compote and mascarpone

  • Rachel Roddy’s orecchiette with raw and cooked tomato sauce.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for orecchiette with raw and cooked tomato sauce

July 2024

  • Rachel Roddy's courgette frying-pan parmigiana

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for frying pan courgette parmigiana

    Normally you’d bake or deep-fry parmigiana di zucchini, but here’s a novel way to make it in a frying pan
  • Parcels of joy ... or cheese. Rachel Roddy's panzerotti.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for panzerotti – deep-fried dough parcels filled with cheese

    These pasty-like cheesy parcels are ideal picnic fare

    • A kitchen in Rome
      Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spaghetti with courgettes, basil and cheese

    • A kitchen in Rome
      Rachel Roddy’s recipe for flatbreads with yoghurt

    • A kitchen in Rome
      Rachel Roddy’s recipe for bullseye biscuits

June 2024

  • Rachel Roddy’s simple salad of lettuce, radish, egg and homemade salad cream 1156

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s simple salad of lettuce, radish, egg and homemade salad cream – recipe

    A pleasingly retro salad with a tangy salad cream that you’ll possibly want to make on repeat … on repeat
  • Rachel Roddy's penne with umami vegetables (but the chicken has scarpered).

    A kitchen in Rome
    Runaway chicken: Rachel Roddy’s recipe for penne con pollo scappato

    A clever, meat-free pasta sauce using soffritto, red wine, plus maybe a smidge of Marmite, to create a deceptively dense flavour
  • Rachel Roddy's Stuffed Tomatoes

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for stuffed tomatoes

    An adaptation of a traditional Neopolitan stuffed peppers recipe, juicy tomatoes overflow with a comforting aubergine, olive and anchovy filling

May 2024

  • Rachel Roddy's barbecue cheese

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for barbecue-baked cheese with oregano and honey

  • Chicken, ricotta and lemon polpette

    Observer Food Monthly's 20 best recipes
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chicken, ricotta and lemon polpette

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