Ready in 30 minutes. That’s all the time you need to whip up these quick and easy pasta dishes. Many of these recipes can be made in just one pot or one pan, plus a few take as little as 15 minutes to cook. These are the fuss-free, quick pasta recipes to turn to for easy dinners when you’re short on time, or just can’t be bothered to cook. And none of them rely on store-bought pasta sauce, either.
We have simple pasta recipes for classics such as spaghetti and meatballs and linguine with pesto, plus an elegant chicken pasta and an easy pasta recipe for cauliflower mac and cheese.
Raid the pantry to make our speedy Venetian dish with an anchovy and onion sauce. Or if there’s rocket kicking around in the fridge, turn it into a speedy chilli, rocket and linguine pasta dish. Eat your greens in the orecchiette with cavolo nero recipe or penne with broccoli and pancetta pangrattato, and get fishy with our recipes with tuna, smoked trout or shellfish. As for the classics, our speedy recipes for spaghetti and meatballs and pasta alla carbonara are guaranteed crowd-pleasers.
Here are our favourite pasta dishes that are quick, easy recipes. Just don’t forget the parmesan cheese.
Prawn linguine with semi-dried tomatoes and olives
Polpetti with roasted tomato sauce and pappardelle
Casarecce with mixed mushrooms and thyme
Rigatoni with mushrooms pecorino and herb crumbs
Easy pasta recipe for Giovanni Pilu’s spaghetti vongole and bottarga
Easy pasta recipe for Casarecce with spring vegetables and pancetta
Easy pasta recipe of spinach and ricotta ravioli
Easy pasta recipe of Mixed pepper and pecorino pasta
Easy pasta recipe fo Torn pasta soup with fennel and parmesan croutons
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Strozzapreti with sausage, radicchio and sage
Tagliatelle with pumpkin, pancetta, chilli and sage
Casarecce with pork sausage, cavolo nero and chilli
Conchiglie rigate with corn, anchovy and mint
Spelt spaghetti with zucchini and cavolo nero-almond sauce
Orecchiette with cauliflower and walnut brown-butter pesto
Ten-minute spaghetti with olives, capers and lemon
Trofie with potatoes, beans and pistachio pesto
Rigatoni with chicken ragù and green sauce
Orecchiette with cavolo nero and porcini
Penne with broccoli and pancetta pangrattato
One-pot recipe for mussels with risoni and herbs
Penne with prawns and fra diavolo sauce
Gnocchetti Sardi with tomato sugo, broccolini and pecorino
Spaghettini with calamari, rosemary and lemon
Tagliatelle with caramelised fennel, smoked trout and crème fraîche
Linguine with tomato, prawns and rocket
Strozzapreti with pork and wine sausage, tomato and chilli
Buckwheat spaghetti with tomato, lemon and flat-leaf parsley
Pennone with broccoli, anchovy and saffron
Broccoli and parmesan spaghetti with prosciutto crumbs
