Use these easy pasta recipes to kick-start your Italian kitchen education...The selection of ultra easy pasta recipes below is designed purely for pasta newbies. So if you don’t know tagliatelle from toast, keep reading! Each easy pasta recipe contains: • Ingredient and equipment lists, accurate timing and preparation info, and clearly explained cooking steps. But… no fancy cooking terms or multi-tasking. Just click the dish you fancy most - and buon appetito! (Got your own easy pasta recipe? Share it here!)
Prepare to be filled! Fagioli is Italian for ‘beans’ (in this case white cannellini beans), making this winter warmer perfect for the very hungry or those coming in from the cold. Hearty stuff and a dish you’ll make again and again. 'Easy 'cream' penne pasta recipe Take one tub of cream, a few chunks of bacon and pepper... and in 15 minutes you'll be enjoying this mouthwatering penne feast (right). Nicely spicy chili and garlic pasta Designed to hit you with a seriously spicy kick, this Southern Italian recipe takes 20 minutes and uses just 5 ingredients (one of which is salt!).
With its porcini mushroom and nut taste, this 25-minute beauty is one I think you'll soon be cooking up regularly. Choose between walnut and pistachio, and if you like it spicy, you even have a chili option. A revelation when I learned it recently, this is the recipe I wish I’d known at college because it's one of the best easy pasta recipes around, combining any short pasta with butter, olive oil, a fried egg and optional cheese. It takes just ten minutes, tastes scrumptious, and is one of my fave low budget recipes… give it a whirl now!
If you love cheesy pasta then try this 20-minute gorgonzola, walnut and pear recipe. You just chop and mix the ingredients, boil up some small tube pasta, and stir it all together. So simple, so delectable.
A true and surprisingly quick classic, spaghetti carbonara is just a case of frying up bacon, whisking raw egg and mixing it all with spaghetti - giving you a ridiculously moreish meal that I think you'll love.
This oily n' olivey spaghetti favorite, with its 'chequered' history, is truly a 'dish of the night'. Still, if Italy's high-street honeys loved it I think you will too - particularly as it's so quick to make and full of flavor. If you love the taste of molten tomatoes, try this adaptable dish. It just fries up a little onion, basil leaves and sweet cherry toms, before smothering them over any pasta shapes you like. Like it says above, simple! This fresh ham, milk and pea dish is called 'tagliatelle delicate' by my mamma-in-law, as it's less heavy than many thick-sauce tagliatelle dishes. It makes a nice filling lunch or a great 'primo piatto' (first dinner course), followed by some meat and salad maybe. Buono! Don't worry... this dish won't get you hammered. What it will do is surprise you by covering your short pasta shapes in a creamy pink sauce with a little hidden strength. I can't really describe it better than that... you'll just have to try it. Extra recommendation: Once you've mastered one of these tasty lasagnas, why not make an evening of it by hosting a full Italian dinner party? Karen from DivineDinnerParty.com can help with her inspired Italian Dinner Party page. "Buon appetito!"
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