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21 pasta bake recipes for comfort cooking this winter

With pasta and melted cheese its core ingredients, what's not to love about a pasta bake?
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Ben Dearnley

With pasta and sauce bound with melted cheese, what’s not to love about a pasta bake recipe? In fact, we’d go as far as saying that pasta bake recipes are our favourite comfort food — especially in winter.

If you’re looking for a cheesy, carby baked pasta recipe then you’ve come to the right place. We have creature-comfort lasagna recipes (make sure you try chef Sarah Cicolini’s version with romanesco) and warming cannelloni dishes, plus a healthy dose of mac and cheese pasta bake recipes. For a show-stopping pasta bake recipe, look no further than Buon Ricordo’s gravity-defying timballo Napoletano.

Here are our best pasta bake recipes to cook in 2024.

Mushroom and Fontina rigatoni

Mushroom and Fontina rigatoni

Make the most of winter produce with a rich pasta bake that pairs a medley of fresh and dried mushrooms with a punchy washed-rind cheese.
Cauliflower mac and cheese

Cauliflower mac and cheese

For this recipe, we’ve added cauliflower to the classic comfort food. (And three different cheeses and crunchy rye breadcrumbs, too.
Pasticcio

Pasticcio

Australian Gourmet Traveller pasta recipe for pasticcio.

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