'recommended that it' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when making a recommendation. For example, "I recommended that it be used as a reference material".
A congressional commission just last week issued a scathing critique of the fund and recommended that it cease all its long-term lending programs.
He added that its structural defects posed a severe risk and recommended that it come down to protect the safety of the people living near it.
It comes so highly recommended that it is unignorable.
Finding the movie potentially confusing, An recommended that it "not be shown in Vietnam".
It recommended that it be replaced with a "fully transparent and accountable civilian police investigative agency".
It quickly recommended that it be bought, and Socony bought it.
He recommended that it be built only if it was the last significant expansion of Heathrow.
The working party that advised the government recommended that it should be avoided altogether.
President Barack Obama's White House policing taskforce recommended that it be addressed.
When she hung up, we discussed it and recommended that it be referred to the ethics committee.
The ASA said that the Highway Code recommended that it is good practice for cyclists to wear helmets.
