Quick pasta dinners
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Quick pasta dinners

Pasta dinners that get from kitchen to table in around an hour or less, including creamy favourites, bakes and weeknight classics.

Quick pasta dinners

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Cacio e Pepe Main
Main35 mins

Cacio e Pepe

Rome and Lazio. It is famous because the ingredient list is extremely short but the technique is unforgiving.

Lemon Chicken Pasta Main
Main35 mins

Lemon Chicken Pasta

A modern Italian-inspired pasta rather than a single historic regional classic. Its popularity comes from the balance b…

Carbonara Main
Main20 mins

Carbonara

Rome and Lazio. Carbonara is famous for its luxurious texture created from eggs and cheese rather than a cream sauce.

Pasta alla Norma Main
Main55 mins

Pasta alla Norma

Catania, Sicily. It is famous for a distinctly Sicilian balance: sweet tomato, silky aubergine, aromatic basil and salt…

Trofie al Pesto Genovese Main
Main35 mins

Trofie al Pesto Genovese

Genoa and Liguria. It is famous for the perfume of fresh basil and the creamy-looking emulsion produced without cooking…

Spaghetti alle Vongole Main
Main35 mins

Spaghetti alle Vongole

Campania and the coastal south, especially Naples. It is famous for tasting intensely of the sea while remaining light.

Gnocchi alla Sorrentina Main
Main45 mins

Gnocchi alla Sorrentina

Sorrento and Campania. It is famous for delivering the flavours of Campania in a particularly comforting form: soft gno…

Pasta alla Gricia Main
Main25 mins

Pasta alla Gricia

Rome and Lazio. It is famous for showing how rendered pork fat and starchy pasta water can form a sauce with grated che…

Ñoquis del 29 Main
Main55 mins

Ñoquis del 29

Soft potato gnocchi served on the twenty-ninth of the month, traditionally with money placed beneath the plate.

Tuna Mornay Main
Main50 mins

Tuna Mornay

Tuna and pasta or rice baked in creamy cheese sauce beneath a golden crumb.