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Summer pasta recipes

Pasta may make fantastic comfort food but it’s also a wonderful base for creating light and fresh dishes. Take your pick from dozens of delicious summer pasta recipes. There’s plenty of pasta salads, seasonal veg, quick fixes and Italian classics to choose from.

Don’t want to linger over the stove this summer. Try quick midweek pasta dishes like crab and courgette tagliatelle.

Italian summer stalwarts include pasta alla norma, our best-ever pesto pasta and spaghetti vongole.

Too hot to cook? Try a pink and green prawn and pasta salad. Meanwhile, rainy days and lazy Sundays call for a summer vegetable lasagne.

Whatever the weather, whatever your mood…there’s a pasta dish to fit the bill this summer.

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Tomato pasta recipes

Pasta pomodoro

Pasta pomodoro is the original – and best – tomato pasta. This recipe is quick and easy but uses a few tricks to really amp up the flavour.

Vegetarian

Easy

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Italian pasta recipes

Classic pasta puttanesca

One of the most famous classic pasta dishes of all time, pasta puttanesca includes anchovies, garlic, capers, olives and tomatoes.

Dairy-free

Easy

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Italian pasta recipes

Pansotti con salsa di noci (stuffed pasta with walnut sauce)

Pansotti, triangular-shaped ravioli, are a speciality of Italy's Liguria region, filled with greens and served with walnut sauce.

Vegetarian

Medium

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'Nduja recipes

Ziti spezzati nduja e ricotta (ziti with ’nduja and salted ricotta)

Spicy, slightly sweet sausage 'nduja needs nothing more than a simple tomato sauce and sprinkling of cheese to shine in this ziti pasta dish.

Easy

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Spaghetti recipes

Spaghetti all’assassina (‘killer spaghetti’)

Puglia's spaghetti all’assassina (killer spaghetti) is unforgettable. The spaghetti crisps up and chars in a rich tomato and chilli sauce.

Dairy-free Vegan

Easy

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Creamy pasta recipes

Pasta alla norcina

This rich pasta dish from Norcia in Umbria is a local speciality. Nuggets of fried sausage and earthy porcini mushroom infuse the cream sauce.

Easy

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Summer pasta recipes

Mussel and sea lettuce linguine

Strands of sea lettuce twirled through linguine bring a mineral contrast to sweet mussels and tomatoes in this summer pasta dish.

Dairy-free

Easy

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Courgette recipes

Smoky courgette and ricotta pasta

This smoky, creamy and lemony courgette sauce is incredibly versatile. Perfect folded through pasta, but it also works as a dip or spread.

Vegetarian

Easy

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30-minute meal recipes

Umami bomb spaghetti

Ready in the time it takes to boil the pasta, this speedy umami bomb spaghetti is packed with olives, anchovies, capers, parmesan and parsley for a joyful tapenade-like flavour.