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20 epic pasta bakes to help you through the pandemic

Lasagne often gets the lockdown limelight (here are 15 luscious recipes), but a humble pasta bake deserves a place in your comfort food roster. Here are some of our favourites, both classic and modern.

20 recipes
Put down the cannelloni shells and freestyle with this free-form puttanesca pasta bake.

Puttanesca pasta bake with Quarantine sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Many mushroom pasta bake.

Many mushroom cannelloni pasta bake with white wine bechamel

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw's ziti, three-cheese pasta bake.
EASY

Three-cheese ziti pasta bake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's Penne al forno
EASY

Neil Perry's penne al forno

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Many tortellini fillings would work in this rustic pasta bake.
EASY

Sausage, kale and tortellini pasta bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Pasta shells with pork ragu and parmesan cream.

Pasta shells with pork ragu and parmesan cream

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
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This stroganoff-inspired pasta bake skips the beef.

Vegetarian stroganoff pasta bake with mushroom and spinach

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Parmigiana pasta bake with cauliflower balls.

Cauliflower parmigiana pasta bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Karen Martini makes macaroni cheese even cosier.
EASY

Karen Martini's mac and cheese-style gnocchi

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Karen Martini's golden tubetti pasta bake with tuna.
EASY

Golden tubetti with cauliflower and tuna

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
There's no need to individually fill the shells in this rustic pasta bake.
EASY

Spicy tomato pasta bake with kale, almonds and ricotta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Pasta bake meets cheeseburger - with extra pickles.

Cheeseburger gnocchi bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Spaghetti carbonara meets frittata.
EASY

Loaded pasta, three cheese and bacon frittata

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw's cheesy-pleaser meatball lasagne.

Lasagne recipe: Meatball lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Welcome spring with Karen Martini's ricotta cannelloni with peas and broad beans.

Ricotta cannelloni with primavera sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
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Jamie Oliver's butternut pumpkin and spinach pasta rotolo.

Jamie Oliver's butternut pumpkin and spinach pasta rotolo

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jamie Oliver
Pasta is optional in this rustic lasagne.

Free-form frypan zucchini, caponata, ricotta and pesto lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Cauliflower cheese meets lasagne.
EASY

Fuss-free free-form cauliflower cheese lasagne

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
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Pastitsio

  • 2 hrs +
mac-cheese

Macaroni, bolognese and cheese (a great way to use up leftover sauce)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/20-epic-pasta-bakes-to-help-you-through-the-pandemic-20210825-h1y5vc.html