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Pasta

Spinach, spring onion and basil pasta.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s spinach, spring onion and basil pasta

Spring onions have a lovely flavour that is both fresh and full-bodied, and they make a great base for this creamy but light spring pasta.

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
EASY

This rich, comforting and easy rigatoni makes the perfect midweek meal

Recruit sausages as meatballs for this rich, comforting and easy dinner.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
If you are unable to source fontina cheese substitute with gruyère.

How to cheat at making meatballs (plus 49 more perfect pasta recipes)

From the all-time classics like bolognese and carbonara to quick and easy midweek lifesavers, give these essential Italian recipes a twirl.

Alvarez prefers pappardelle pasta here because of its silkiness and the way it wraps up the ragu.

Pappardelle don’t preach: Five hearty but silky pastas to make this weekend

Featuring Danielle Alvarez’s new pappardelle with white pork ragu, sage and lemon – perfect for low-key meals with mates.

Pappardelle with white pork ragu, sage and lemon.

Pappardelle with white pork ragu, sage and lemon

This classic Italian dish of pork cooked in milk might sound a bit odd, but it’s a revelation.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
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Carbonara you can slurp with a spoon? We’re here for it.
EASY

Soup of the carbonara variety

Traditionalists, look away. This lovely, hearty soup is pasta you can slurp with a spoon.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
EASY

Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu

This cheat’s pasta sauce will taste as if you’ve been working on it all day, with no slicing, dicing or chopping required.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Spicy tomato, tortellini and chilli soup.

This simple slow-cooker tomato soup with shop-bought tortellini is pure comfort

Plus a hearty steak and Guinness pie and a chilli con carne macaroni melt that will come up beautifully in your slow cooker.

  • Nathan Anthony
Silky sausage ragu with creamy burrata cheese.
EASY

Cheat’s pork sausage ragu with burrata and casarecce

Caramelising the sausage meat and coating it in sun-dried tomato pesto is a shortcut to deep flavour in no time.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Pasta with slow-roasted shallot, chorizo and garlic sauce.
EASY

Pasta with shallot, chorizo and tinned tomato sauce

Slow-roasted eschalots do ungodly decadent things to anything they lend their flavour to, such as this simple tomato sauce.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink

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