Pasta recipes

This easy trout pasta proves cooking fish is easier than you think. Trout fillets are baked with lemon and dill, then stirred into a zingy and creamy caper sauce.

Combine crispy chicken and orzo with caramelised chicory for an easy midweek dinner you'll return to again and again in the winter months.

Tortellini in brodo is a labour of love. Tiny handmade tortellini are served in the rich stock from a bollito misto. A Piedmontese classic.

The cavolo nero leaves in green mac and cheese are whizzed while the stems are quick pickled, to provide brightness against the cheese sauce.

Pasta alla vodka is smooth and creamy, tangy and full of umami. The addition of portobello mushroom takes the dish to another level.

A hit of heat from chilli flakes and fragrant, savoury sage are butternut squash’s best friends in this quick-prep sausage pasta dish.

A wonderful combination of sweet, earthy chestnuts and peppery sausages takes centre stage in this sausage and chestnut pasta dish.

Macaronade Sétoise is a hearty pasta dish from southern France, made with steak, pork ribs and sausages. Think Sunday sauce with a little je ne sais quoi.

Chef Jun Tanaka takes French soupe de poisson and reimagines it as a pasta sauce for anchovy spaghetti – with outrageously good results.

This hearty chicken and bean soup is packed with nuggets of filling orzo pasta. Finish with a generous swirl of homemade walnut pesto.

This air fryer mac ‘n’ cheese uses just 4 ingredients and is ready in 30 minutes. Once you master the evaporated milk cheese sauce, you’ll want to use it on everything.

A perfect summer barbecue side, this zingy runner bean pasta salad boasts double pulses: verdant runner beans and creamy butter beans.

Crab pasta is an elegant but easy summer dinner for two. Grating courgettes retains their fresh flavour while melting into the sauce.

Make the best ever pesto pasta with our easy recipe. Trofie pasta is tossed together with homemade pesto, potatoes and green beans.

This crowdpleasing feta pasta salad is a Mediterranean hybrid. Fresh seasonal veg, sun-dried tomatoes and a big block of salty feta are ideal when you don’t feel like eating something hot.

This summer vegetable lasagne is packed with courgettes, aubergine and flame-grilled peppers. Serve with a crisp green salad.

Scily’s trapanese pesto is made with tomatoes, toasted almonds and mint alongside the basil and cheese. The perfect partner for salmon pasta.

Aubergines collapse into a juice pile of smoky, rich flavour when cooked directly on a heat source, making an incredibly rich pasta sauce.

Lara Lee's cheesy kimchi linguine with gochujang butter is a pasta dish that flies the flag for sweet-spicy-salty-umami-fermented flavour.

Whizzed cashews provide the perfect base for creamy vegan sauces, as this super-quick pasta demonstrates. An easy pasta dinner for four.

Chicken sausage pasta - it doesn't get easier or tastier than this. The tomatoes are optional but they do add a juicy sweetness.

This easy spaghetti aglio e olio requires just 15 minutes and 5 ingredients. We love it for an easy midweek meal.

It won’t please any Italians, but stirring carbonara through orzo instead of the more usual spaghetti creates an unparalleled creaminess.

Pot-roasting chicken makes sure it’s tender, juicy and in this dish allows plenty of those flavourful juices to become absorbed into the orzo.