Healthy pasta recipes
There are fewer than 500 calories in a serving of these lighter pasta recipes. Try macaroni cheese made with a vegan butternut squash and sage sauce or a green pasta sauce made with houmous.
Explore our vegetarian pasta recipes if you’re looking for something meat free and indulgent.
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Spaghetti recipes
Anchovy spaghetti with chilli, garlic and pangrattato
Chef Jun Tanaka takes French soupe de poisson and reimagines it as a pasta sauce – with outrageously good results....
Sardine recipes
Sardine linguine
Stir up the flavours of southern Italy in this easy sardine linguine recipe. Add saffron, raisins and pangrattato for a...
Traybake recipes
Oven-roasted pasta puttanesca
Rustle up an easy midweek family dinner with our oven-roasted pasta puttanesca recipe. Spaghetti is baked with rich, sticky roast...
Chicken pasta recipes
Chicken meatball and orzo broth
This light chicken meatball and orzo broth serves as a hearty midweek meal while being much lower in fat than...
Budget pasta recipes
Tomato pasta salad
Angela Hartnett’s light and summery pasta salad requires just five ingredients (four excluding olive oil) so quality is key here....
Pasta bake recipes
Blue cheese and chicken pasta bake
This perennial family favourite, the pasta bake, gets a lighter touch with a healthy boost of vegetables. We’ve slashed the...
Midweek meal recipes
Super green pasta
Who knew that a pot of houmous could make such a fabulous, quick and creamy pasta sauce? We did. Whizz...
Creamy pasta recipes
Creamy wine and mustard chicken tagliatelle
Tarragon, chicken and wine is always a wonderful combination. This creamy tagliatelle recipe really showcases the power of simple but...
Vegan dinner recipes
Butternut squash and sage macaroni
A spin-on-a-classic, this vegan version of mac and cheese is one of Katy Beskow’s most popular online recipes. She re-created...
Vegetarian recipes from around the world
Vegetarian spaghetti alla puttanesca
A vegetarian spaghetti alla puttanesca. Rose Elliot’s recipe leaves out the anchovies but is still full of capers, tomato and...
Carbonara recipes
Healthier spaghetti carbonara with parma ham
Carbonara is traditionally made with cured pork cheek or lardons, both of which are very high in fat. By using...
Healthy pasta recipes
Beetroot orzotto
If you’re short on time try this beetroot orzotto recipe – it’s a great choice for a healthy midweek dinner.
Healthy pasta recipes
Lemon, ricotta, fennel and chilli oil linguine
Pasta doesn’t get much faster than this – ready to eat in 30 minutes this vegetarian linguine recipe is perfect...
Cauliflower recipes
Roasted cauliflower and pesto pasta
More than a simple bowl of pasta – this recipe is bursting with flavour from the pesto, roasted cauliflower and...
Vegan dinner recipes
Easy broccoli, chilli and lemon spaghetti
This zingy broccoli, lemon and chilli spaghetti is topped with toasted almonds for added crunch.
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