Quick pasta recipes
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Tuna
Sicilian tuna pasta
This quick and easy tuna pasta is ready in under half an hour and brings the fresh, vibrant flavours of the southern Italian coastline right into your kitchen.
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Favourite chicken
Spring chicken one pan casarecce
Everything gets cooked in a single pan in this recipe, with the pasta soaking up the stock for extra flavour.
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Weekly pastas
Creamy bucatini with chorizo and mushrooms
Spanish chorizo imbues cream with its punchy, paprika-coloured oils in this bucatini recipe. Peas, lemon and tarragon add brighter top notes, with mushrooms grounding bringing earthiness.
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Tomato pastas
Anelli alla vodka (vodka spaghetti hoops)
This is spaghetti hoops – but for grown-ups! Far superior to the sickly-sweet tinned stuff, this is a twist on the penne alla vodka popular in Italian-American restaurants.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Weekly pastas
Tuna puttanesca ragù
Whizzing up olives and capers to form a sort of mince and gently simmering them like you would a ragù creates something far deeper and richer than the usual puttanesca.
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Weekly pastas
Penne all’arrabbiata
Penne all'arrabbiata hails from the Lazio region of Italy, most notably Rome. Penne is tossed with a simple tomato and chilli sauce and topped with gratings of pecorino.
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Quick pasta
Harissa, mascarpone and basil rigatoni
This speedy harissa pasta has just six ingredients but heavily delivers on fiery, creamy goodness. We can’t stop making it!
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April seasonal
Gennaro Contaldo’s asparagus carbonara
Gennaro Contaldo gives classic carbonara a springtime make over with the addition of asparagus in this quick and delicious recipe.
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Midweek meals
Pasta alla sorrentina
This delicious and easy pasta recipe is inspired by gnocchi alla sorrentina, a crowd-pleasing dish from Sorrento in the Campania region of Italy.
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Creamy pasta
Creamy trout and caper linguine
This easy trout pasta proves cooking fish is easier than you think. Trout fillets are baked with lemon and dill, then stirred into a zingy and creamy caper sauce.
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Macaroni cheese
Green mac and cheese with bacon crumb
The cavolo nero leaves in green mac and cheese are whizzed while the stems are quick pickled, to provide brightness against the cheese sauce.
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Portobello mushrooms
Mushroom pasta alla vodka
Pasta alla vodka is smooth and creamy, tangy and full of umami. The addition of portobello mushroom takes the dish to another level.
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Sausage pasta
Sausage, squash and sage pasta
A hit of heat from chilli flakes and fragrant, savoury sage are butternut squash’s best friends in this quick-prep sausage pasta dish.
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