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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Weekly pasta recipes
Norma al forno
Served warm, adorned with a crispy cheese crown, this aubergine pasta bake proves that even in hot weather, comfort food still rules supreme.
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Easy orzo recipes
Orzo russian salad with tuna
This russian salad uses orzo for a delicious pasta side. It also has a warm Spanish flavour with tuna, eggs, olives and roasted red peppers.
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Pasta salad recipes
Pink and green prawn and pasta salad
Debora Robertson's verdant pasta salad is crammed with juicy pink prawns. Perfect for a laid-back summer dinner in the garden.
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Weekly pasta recipes
Mixed seafood conchiglioni
This pasta brings all the flavours of moules marinières, with none of the fuss. Give it a go tonight for a 20-minute winner.
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Courgette recipes
Summer courgettes with malloreddus, parmesan and oregano
This courgette recipe combines the seasonal veg with Sardinian malloreddus pasta, parmesan and oregano for a filling summer dinner.
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Sausage pasta recipes
Angela Hartnett’s rigatoni with fennel and sausage
A simple, rustic, deeply flavourful pasta dish from the iconic Angela Hartnett, with fennel and sausage in a tomato sauce.
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Butter bean recipes
Runner bean pasta salad
A perfect summer barbecue side, this zingy runner bean pasta salad boasts double pulses: verdant runner beans and creamy butter beans.
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