Quick pasta recipes
All our speedy pasta recipes are ready in 30 minutes or fewer. Try a classic fettuccine alfredo, creamy chicken tagliatelle or spaghetti carbonara – ready in double-quick time.
Browse more creamy pasta recipes and check out our orzo recipe ideas, too – it makes a great alternative to rice in creamy risotto-style dishes.
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30-minute meals
Guanciale, artichoke and pecorino linguine
Similar to carbonara and using some distinctly Roman ingredients, this five ingredient, silkily sauced guanciale linguine is easy to make.
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30-minute meals
Mini sausage meatballs with spaghetti arrabbiata
This speedy, fiery version of spaghetti and meatballs made with sausages will be one you make again and again. It’s the perfect midweek meal.
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Recipes that make the most of butter
Bucatini with XO, butter and parmesan
This quick pasta dish gets a huge boost of umami from XO sauce, all brought together with plenty of butter for a slick and glossy finish.
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Carbonaras
Pigs in blankets carbonara
Carbonara gets a Christmas makeover by adding pigs in blankets. What’s not to like about this fun festive dinner recipe?
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Gnocchi
Green cauliflower cheese gnocchi
Cauliflower cheese gets a boost of comforting gnocchi and a vibrant green makeover. The perfect midweek meal for chilly nights.
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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.
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Spaghetti
Spaghetti all’assassina (‘killer spaghetti’)
Puglia's spaghetti all’assassina (killer spaghetti) is unforgettable. The spaghetti crisps up and chars in a rich tomato and chilli sauce.
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15-minute meals
Spaghetti alla nerano
This spaghetti has fudgy and sweet fried courgettes which need little more than a little cheese to enrich them. Simplicity at its finest.
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30-minute meals
Orecchiette with burrata, chilli and anchovy
This easy Puglian-inspired pasta combines two of the region’s most famous products – creamy burrata cheese and orecchiette pasta. One to make when you want to impress without spending ages in the kitchen.
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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.
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Chicken pasta
Chicken caesar pasta
Meet your new favourite weeknight pasta dish. A silky caesar dressing-style sauce is tossed with chicken and fusilli with delicious results.
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30-minute meals
Umami bomb spaghetti
Ready in the time it takes to boil the pasta, this speedy umami bomb spaghetti is packed with olives, anchovies, capers, parmesan and parsley for a joyful tapenade-like flavour.
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Easy orzo
One-pot harissa meatball orzo
This one-pot harissa orzo is turned into a comfort food winner with lamb meatballs and melty mozzarella. Try it tonight.
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Pasta salads
Sardine and courgette pasta salad
Grated raw courgettes and tomatoes bring sweetness, while adding sardines, lemon and mustard offer bags of flavour in this speedy pasta salad that's full of freshness.
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Weekly pastas
Creamy sweetcorn and Tajín pasta
Tajín is a Mexican seasoning that combines lime and chilli, and when paired with sweetcorn it makes a wonderful sauce for pasta.
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July seasonal
Halloumi and blistered tomato orzo
This 5-ingredient dinner is so easy. It's full of flavour from blistered tomatoes, grated halloumi, mint and lemon.
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