Pasta Recipes

82 recipes

Pasta is what I cook when dinner has to be quick: the sauce is ready by the time the spaghetti is done, and most recipes here take about half an hour. Step-by-step pasta recipes with photos — cream and tomato sauces, pasta with chicken, pork and mushrooms, plus lasagna and cannelloni from the oven. Start with classic lasagna or chicken pasta in cream sauce; from the Italian classics — carbonara and fettuccine Alfredo. Not sure what to choose? Below the recipes are picks by sauce and occasion.

If you want a cream sauce

Spinach pasta and porcini mushroom pasta. The simplest cream sauce is Alfredo: cream, butter and Parmesan, 15 minutes.

If you want a tomato sauce

Bucatini with marinara, spaghetti puttanesca and pasta with mozzarella and canned tomatoes.

If you want it meatless

Avocado pasta, spaghetti with cheese and tortiglioni carbonara with vegetables and mushrooms — all in 30 minutes.

If you want to bake it

Besides lasagna — cannelloni with ground pork and tomato sauce and baked mac and cheese.