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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Swede
Swede, kale and ditaloni broth with pistachio pistou
A pistachio, parsley and lemon pistou adds a verdant vibrancy to this one-pot pasta and kale broth. A hearty yet light winter dinner.
Tomato pastas
Pasta pomodoro
Pasta pomodoro is the original – and best – tomato pasta. This recipe is quick and easy but uses a few tricks to really amp up the flavour.
Italian pastas
Classic pasta puttanesca
One of the most famous classic pasta dishes of all time, pasta puttanesca includes anchovies, garlic, capers, olives and tomatoes.
Tinned beans
Butter bean cacio e pepe
Cacio e pepe is one of those classic pasta dishes that combines just a couple of ingredients but results in a meal that's so much greater than the sum of its parts. Here, we've added creamy butter beans for extra fibre and goodness.
Gnocchi
Caramelised fennel gnocchi
Slowly caramelising fennel in the same way you would onions renders it sweet and tender – an easy yet tasty topping for shop-bought gnocchi.
Weekly pastas
Mixed seafood conchiglioni
This pasta brings all the flavours of moules marinières, with none of the fuss. Give it a go tonight for a 20-minute winner.
Courgettes
Summer courgettes with malloreddus, parmesan and oregano
This courgette recipe combines the seasonal veg with Sardinian malloreddus pasta, parmesan and oregano for a filling summer dinner.
Weekly pastas
Brothy tortelloni with beans
Cooking filled pasta in a garlic and chilli-spiked broth with creamy beans and robust cavolo nero is seriously satisfying for a-15 minute meal.
Easy orzo
Pea green orzotto
This beautiful, bright green orzo has the fresh flavours of sweet peas, fragrant basil and a wonderful oozy texture thanks to the mozzarella. It’s spring in a bowl!
30-minute meals
Walnut and four-herb pesto pasta
Use our fabulous, freeze-ahead green sauce to make this delicious walnut pesto pasta. A great quick pasta recipe to have up your sleeve.
Spaghetti
Anchovy spaghetti with chilli, garlic and pangrattato
Chef Jun Tanaka takes French soupe de poisson and reimagines it as a pasta sauce for anchovy spaghetti – with outrageously good results.
Sardines
Sardine linguine
Stir up the flavours of southern Italy in this easy sardine linguine recipe. Add saffron, raisins and pangrattato for a quick midweek supper.
Traybakes
Oven-roasted pasta puttanesca
Rustle up an easy midweek family dinner with our oven-roasted pasta puttanesca recipe. Just five minutes prep, then let the oven do the work.
Chicken pasta
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 a classic meatball recipe.
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