The Collections: easy pasta dishes grouped by type and shape

Are you looking for easy pasta dishes featuring a particular pasta shape, such as fusilli or penne?

Or maybe you really love creamy pasta recipes? Or you’re a sucker for ravioli?

Whatever your favourite pasta type, this section is for you. It takes the relevant recipes from across Pasta Recipes Made Easy and serves them up in just the order you require.

To find the easy pasta dishes for you, just click the blue links below or scroll down. Buon appetito!

Recipes by pasta shape:
Penne Recipes / Ravioli Recipes / Fusilli Recipes / Cannelloni Recipes

Penne Recipes

If you have a box of penne pasta then this page will give you plenty of ideas on how to cook it. The thing to understand is this: short pasta shapes such as penne are just great for holding onto chunky sauces, so you can expect cheese, meat and cream in total abundance - delizioso!

Ravioli Recipes

I've found that there's really no better way to impress dinner guests than serving them luscious homemade ravioli. And with these ravioli recipes, the process is really quite simple. All you need is plenty of time free and a strong rolling arm - then those moreish parcels are just a few short tasks away!

Fusilli Recipes

Twirly fusilli pasta has a huge surface area relative to its size, which means that like penne above it's great for catching and carrying chunky-monkey sauces. It also works well - and looks great - in pasta salad dishes, so you'll find one of those on this page too.

Cannelloni Recipes

Take a pipe of pasta, stuff it with lip-smacking ingredients, smother over a rich sauce, pop in the oven and don't look back. Welcome to the wonderful world of Italian cannelloni cooking. From ricotta with spinach to beefy bolognese and chicken, if there's a tube free we're stuffing it!


Recipes by ingredient:
Creamy Pasta Recipes / Easy Eggplant Recipes / Chicken Pasta Dishes / Shrimp Pasta Recipes

Cream Sauce Pasta Recipes

If there's a recipe on this site with cream in or anywhere near it, you'll find it on this dairy-lovin' page. From creamy salmon with long pasta to serious-stirring bechamel sauce and creamy bacon pasta, you should find a nice n' easy pasta recipe here to suit you.

Easy Eggplant Recipes

There are few ingredients more tasty and flexible than eggplant (called aubergine in Europe). These easy aubergine recipes prove it - cooking up a storm that includes baked dishes, an eggplant lasagna and a fake lasagna that doesn't even bother with pasta! Oh, and did I mention that eggplant is fat-free? Well it's true, at least it is before you fry it...

Chicken pasta dishes

Although it's not a typical pasta ingredient, chicken makes for tasty cannelloni, sumptuous baked pasta and a super-hearty soup. Featuring both recipes from Marisa's kitchen and reader submitted favorites, this section is all about the bird.

Shrimp Pasta Recipes

If you're a seafood addict then don't miss these crustacean-packing shrimp recipes. (Or if you call these medium-sized beasties 'prawns' in your country, that'll work too!) I kick you off on this page with a highly flexible seafood meal, followed by a molten zucchini delight.

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