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Pasta Recipes

29 recipes with pasta for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

29 recipes

Baked Ziti with ziti, ricotta and mozzarella — USA recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Baked Ziti

Baked Ziti is a popular American dish of Italian origin — a casserole of tubular pasta, tomato sauce with meat and several types of cheese. It makes 8 servings, enough for a family dinner or a crowd. Let it stand for 5–10 minutes after baking before you cut it.

70 min730 kcal8 serves

💪High protein

Lasagna with lasagna pasta, ground beef and ricotta — Italy recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Lasagna

Lasagna is baked layers of wide pasta sheets, meat sauce, béchamel and cheese. This version also adds a layer of ricotta mixed with egg and Parmesan, the way Italian-American kitchens often do it, so it comes out denser and richer than a plain ragù-and-béchamel lasagne. Bake it 35–40 minutes and let it rest before cutting, so the layers set into clean squares.

100 min950 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Pasta Primavera with pasta, tomato and zucchini — Italy recipe

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Pasta Primavera

Pasta Primavera is a popular American dish inspired by Italian traditions, created in the 1970s at Le Cirque restaurant in New York City. Light and fresh, perfect for spring and summer.

30 min430 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick💪High protein

Penne in Tomato Sauce with penne, tomato and garlic — Italy recipe

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Penne in Tomato Sauce

Penne in tomato sauce is a versatile dish that can be either a simple everyday dinner or the basis for more complex variations with the addition of meat, seafood or vegetables.

33 min580 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy

Spaghetti Bolognese with spaghetti, ground beef and tomato — Italy recipe

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Spaghetti Bolognese

A slow-cooked meat ragù of ground beef, pancetta, tomatoes, and a splash of milk that simmers for hours until thick and deeply savory. The pasta is just a vehicle — the sauce is where all the patience pays off.

35 min900 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Spaghetti Carbonara with eggs, pancetta and parmesan — Italy recipe

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Spaghetti Carbonara

Hot pasta tossed with crisp guanciale, raw egg yolks, and Pecorino Romano — the residual heat creates a silky, golden sauce without any cream. Timing is everything: too slow and you get scrambled eggs, too fast and it stays raw.

23 min850 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Mac and Cheese with macaroni, cheddar and butter — USA recipe

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Mac and Cheese

The ultimate American comfort food — elbow macaroni baked in a rich, velvety three-cheese sauce with a golden breadcrumb crust. Creamy on the inside, crispy on top.

40 min540 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy

High-Protein Chicken Alfredo with chicken, fettuccine and parmesan — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

High-Protein Chicken Alfredo

Fettuccine in a garlic-Parmesan sauce built with Greek yogurt instead of all cream. The yogurt is added off the heat so it doesn't curdle, and you can't taste it in the finished dish. Around 38g of protein per serving instead of the usual 22g.

30 min540 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🥑Keto

Cottage Cheese Pasta Bake with cottage cheese, penne and mozzarella — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Cottage Cheese Pasta Bake

Rigatoni baked with ground turkey, marinara sauce and cottage cheese blended into the sauce — the cottage cheese disappears completely and most people can't identify it. Around 38g of protein per serving. Makes 6 portions, keeps 5 days, freezes well.

50 min480 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Minestrone with tomato, beans and onion — Italy recipe

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Soups

Minestrone

Italian vegetable and bean soup with pasta. The vegetables soften in olive oil before any liquid goes in. A Parmesan rind simmers in the broth. The result tastes nothing like the tinned version.

55 min290 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Spaghetti Aglio e Olio with spaghetti, garlic cloves and red pepper flakes — Italy recipe

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Spaghetti Aglio e Olio

Spaghetti, olive oil, garlic, chili flakes, parsley. From pantry to table in 20 minutes. The pasta water is what turns the oil into a sauce — don't skip it.

20 min480 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Sausage and Pea Pasta with sausage, peas and parmesan — Italy recipe

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Sausage and Pea Pasta

Italian pork sausages browned until the fat renders and the casing crisps, then simmered in a quick tomato-cream sauce with peas and finished with parmesan. This is the kind of pasta that feels like a restaurant dish but comes together in under 30 minutes on a weeknight. Rigatoni's ridged tubes hold the sauce inside and out — every forkful pulls a bit of everything.

30 min690 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

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spaghetti ground beef tomato parmesan mozzarella ricotta zucchini garlic basil carrot eggs chicken