Luscious cream sauce pasta recipes

We start off simply with a moreish cream n' bacon penne dish, before cracking on to make bechamel sauce and pouring this over some chunky rigatoni to make a serious winter warmer of a dish. It's scrummy stuff.

So enough chatting, let's get these cream sauce pasta recipes under way!

Easy cream penne pasta recipe

This bacon-packed treat is almost too easy for words - it features just 4 key cooking steps and takes just 15 minutes from start to finish. And... I should mention this, it's utterly moreish, so I think your family or dinner guests will just love it.


Bechamel sauce recipe

The great thing about bechamel sauce, aside from its thick, syrupy consistency and creeeeamy taste, is that making it is just a case of stirring slow. And you can use it in so many dishes - the rigatoni bake below is one but it also works rather well in lasagna. Just be sure to limber up your stirring arm as it'll get some work!

Baked rigatoni recipe

Now we've mastered bechamel, this dish makes the most of it to create a meaty, cheesy, seriously stomach-filling beauty with just a subtle hint of woody nutmeg. Make sure you're real hungry before you indulge in this one, and certainly don't plan any sport afterwards!


Easy salmon pasta recipe

Direct from a Belgian reader called Heidi, this fish & cream winner is just delightful. Its subtle leek and onion crunch, those fresh salmon strips, its subtle blend of herbs and spices - it's just, mmm, delicious. Not only that, but it's oh so simple to prepare.

Penne pasta with vodka sauce

Two shots of vodka in a pasta dish? What nonsense is this? Well it's pink creamy nonsense, and while it won't get you drunk (that would just be weird), it will wallop your taste buds with a hit of serious taste.

Dad's fave crunchy n' creamy pasta recipe

My Dad is a confirmed meat lover, but after eating this Sicilian penne plateful he instantly declared it his new favorite pasta dish. That's because this crunchy almond, ricotta and breadcrumb offering is about as moreish as it gets.

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