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50 vegetarian pastas for a simple but satisfying midweek meal

Pack your pasta full of vegies with these nourishing and (mostly) simple meat-free pasta recipes.

48 recipes
Adam Liaw's fettuccine with spring green pesto.
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Adam Liaw's fettuccine with spring green pesto

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw takes spaghetti for a Greek spin.
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Adam Liaw's spanakopita spaghetti

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's pantry pasta.
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Neil Perry's penne with chickpeas and chilli

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Jamie Oliver's quick green pasta.
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Jamie Oliver's quick green pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jamie Oliver
Cacio e pepe is one of the Good Food Guide dishes of the year. Chef Casey Wall's version at Bar Liberty in Melbourne (pictured) is the reviewers' pick.

How to make Bar Liberty's cacio e pepe pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Casey Wall
Vegetarian bolognese, no plant-based mince required.
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Meat-free mushroom and lentil bolognese

  • 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
Green vegetable pasta primavera.
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Green vegetable pasta primavera

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Creamy pumpkin soup meets pasta.

Creamy pumpkin and blue cheese pasta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Spaghetti with zucchini and spinach.
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Adam Liaw's spaghetti with zucchini and spinach

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pasta topped with seasoned zucchini and butter.
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Penne pasta with zucchini and butter

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Many mushroom pasta bake.

Many mushroom cannelloni pasta bake with white wine bechamel

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
This dish also works well with zucchini ribbons (zoodles).
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Carrot 'pappardelle' with tomato and chilli

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Five-mushroom fettuccine.

Adam Liaw's five-mushroom fettuccine

  • Adam Liaw
Spaghetti with pumpkin, thyme and brown butter.
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Spaghetti with pumpkin, thyme and brown butter recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Adam Liaw's simple vegetarian-friendly spaghetti.

Roasted carrot and tomato spaghetti

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's summer tomato and caper pasta recipe.
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Summer tomato and caper pasta recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Potato gnocchi

Traditional homemade potato gnocchi

  • < 30 mins
  • CAROLINE VELIK
Add this rich sauce to your favourite pasta and dinner is done.
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...served with Dan Lepard's eggplant tomato pasta sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Dan Lepard
Put an egg on it: Adam Liaw's easy asparagus pasta.
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Asparagus and parmesan fettuccine recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pasta all a Norma
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Pasta all a Norma

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rosa Mitchell
Rigatoni with eggplant, capsicum and bocconcini.
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Rigatoni with eggplant, capsicum and bocconcini recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Spaghetti with pangrattato.
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Spaghetti with garlic, pangrattato and olive oil

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's cacio e pepe pasta.
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Cacio e pepe (cheese and pepper) pasta recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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Joe Jones' cacio e pepe gnocchi.

...or cacio e pepe gnocchi

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Joe Jones
Parmigiana pasta bake with cauliflower balls.

Cauliflower parmigiana pasta bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Pumpkin ravioli.
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Pumpkin ravioli with burnt-butter sauce

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Danielle Alvarez's smoky rigatoni with ricotta salata.

Rigatoni with smoky eggplant, tomato and oregano

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
GF. Hot Food. June 4th. Mac n Cheese.Photo: Edwina Pickles. 28th May 2013.
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Jill Dupleix's mac and cheese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Sicilian pesto and warm tomato salad make a light summer meal.
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Sicilian pesto pasta with a warm tomato salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rosa Mitchell
Add a splash of vodka to your pasta sauce.
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Pasta with tomato vodka sauce, chilli and burrata

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Summer vegetable lasagne

Summer vegetable lasagne

  • 2 hrs +
  • Karen Martini
Strozzapretti pasta with pumpkin, pine nuts and feta

Strozzapreti pasta with roast pumpkin, feta and pine nuts

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Ricotta gnocchi. Caroline Velik PASTA recipes for Epicure and Good Living. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Food preparation and styling by Caroline Velik. Photographed April 2, 2012. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Ricotta gnocchi

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Pasta is optional in this rustic lasagne.

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

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Gnocchi with pesto cream

Potato gnocchi with pesto cream recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix

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