Pasta recipes
Pasta. Is it an ingredient, or a dish? Who knows. Either way, we love it. It’s the base for many of our speedy midweek meals, and we’ve got a few pasta challenges thrown in for good measure, if you fancy showing off your skills.
All Pasta recipes
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Gnocchi recipes
Green cauliflower cheese gnocchi
Cauliflower cheese gets a boost of comforting gnocchi and a vibrant green makeover. The perfect midweek meal for chilly nights.
Tomato pasta recipes
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 pasta recipes
Classic pasta puttanesca
One of the most famous classic pasta dishes of all time, pasta puttanesca includes anchovies, garlic, capers, olives and tomatoes.
Favourite lamb recipes
Fusilli con ragù d’agnello (fusilli with lamb ragù)
For midweek pasta with a difference, try this fusilli dish from Italy's Molise region. The fusilli is paired with a rich, herby lamb ragù.
Homemade pasta recipes
Malloreddus with veal ragù
Learn how to make authentic Sardinian malloreddus, then serve the little dumpling-shaped pasta in a rich veal ragù.
Italian pasta recipes
Pansotti con salsa di noci (stuffed pasta with...
Pansotti, triangular-shaped ravioli, are a speciality of Italy's Liguria region, filled with greens and served with walnut sauce.
Celebrity chef recipes
Angela Hartnett’s gnocco fritto (deep-fried pasta)
Gnocco fritto is a popular snack in Emilia-Romagna. Pasta dough is fried until hollow and crisp and eaten with cured meat and soft cheese.
Lasagne recipes
Lasagne di salsiccia piccante e polenta (spicy sausage...
This lasagne hails from Italy's Veneto region. Layers of creamy polenta alternate with a rich sausage sauce, pecorino and mozzarella.
Budget pasta recipes
Bigoli in salsa (caramelised onion and anchovy pasta)
Bigoli in salsa is a classic Venetian dish: thick pasta strands with a rich sauce of caramelised onions and anchovies. Simple yet luxurious.
Spaghetti recipes
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.
Creamy pasta recipes
Pasta alla norcina
This rich pasta dish from Norcia in Umbria is a local speciality. Nuggets of fried sausage and earthy porcini mushroom infuse the cream sauce.
15-minute meal recipes
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.
30-minute meal recipes
Creamy mushroom egg yolk pasta
Adding an egg yolk to the centre of this rich mushroom pasta makes the most luxurious, silky sauce you could imagine – and stirring it in at the table feels oh-so sophisticated.
Squash recipes
Squash, sausage and goat’s cheese pasta rotolo
Rolled lasagne sheets filled with roasted squash, sausages and sage are baked, standing upright in a pool of passata to create a lovely crispy topping in this pasta dish.
30-minute meal recipes
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.
Recipes with 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.
Chicken pasta recipes
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.
30-minute meal recipes
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.
Sausage pasta recipes
Sausage ragù with fennel and orange
Sausage makes an incredible base for ragù, especially when paired with bright southern Italian flavours like fennel and orange.
Pasta salad recipes
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.
Weekly pasta recipes
Norma al forno
Served warm, adorned with a crispy cheese crown, this aubergine pasta bake proves that even in hot weather, comfort food still rules supreme.Â
Weekly pasta recipes
Creamy sweetcorn and TajÃn pasta
TajÃn is a Mexican seasoning that combines lime and chilli, and when paired with sweetcorn it makes a wonderful sauce for pasta.
Easy orzo recipes
Orzo russian salad with tuna
This russian salad uses orzo for a delicious pasta side. It also has a warm Spanish flavour with tuna, eggs, olives and roasted red peppers.
Pasta salad recipes
Pink and green prawn and pasta salad
Debora Robertson's verdant pasta salad is crammed with juicy pink prawns. Perfect for a laid-back summer dinner in the garden.