Pasta Recipes & Meal Ideas

It's the most comforting thing you'll make all week.

Bonus: It’s super easy.

lasagna's lazier cousin.

You'll love it.

Bonus: It's ready in 30 minutes.

Almost every culture has a homey version of chicken soup to comfort the sick or the soul weary, or to stave off the chill of cold weather, but the Greeks might just have one of the best: the egg and lemon soup known as avgolemono. Here’s how to make this classic comforting soup at home. The broth is rich, but not heavy. When you dig in for a spoonful, the broth is not only stunning, but it’s also silky and rich without a drop of cream in sight. It’s easy to make.

You won’t be able to resist.

What can’t cabbage do?

They bake in half the time as the classic.

This is the ultimate pasta dish.

It all starts with store-bought gnocchi.

You might adore Olive Garden for the unlimited salad and garlic breadsticks (our copycat recipe is seriously legit!) or the ultra-comforting creamy pastas, but for me, it’s all about the luxuriously creamy chicken gnocchi soup. Just thinking about it, I can smell the herb and black pepper-flecked broth and feel the warm, satisfying comfort it brings to my belly.

It takes almost zero effort.

Oh, and it's done in 25 minutes flat.

Embrace the magic that is store-bought tortellini.

Your friends will beg for the recipe.

So much better than chicken noodle.

Just one pot and no chopping required.

Oh, and it cooks in just 30 minutes.

Everything you love about the classic cheesy pasta, without the fuss.

The sauce is everything.

Bonus: It's ready in 30 minutes.

It's ready in under 30 minutes.

It tastes just like Hamburger Helper.

It's the duo we deserve.

Slow cooker soups, quick and easy weeknight pastas, and the best-ever veggie burger topped the list of vegetarian mains.

These are simple classics to memorize.

Yes, it is possible.

A big casserole dish filled with baked pasta is the easiest (and tastiest) way to feed all of your family and friends.

Bring on the cheese!

I think we can all agree — there are few things more wonderful in this life than a giant bowl of pasta for dinner.

Make now, eat later.

Satisfying recipes that are extra portable.

If you're not making pasta in your Instant Pot, it's time to get started.

From a bright-pink beet pesto pasta to a creamy Alfredo, here are 11 ways to dress your pasta sans the red sauce.

Time to add frozen tortellini to this week's shopping list.

Here's how I round out pasta night.

Classic comfort food at its very best.

This is our go-to weeknight dinner.

It's basically grown-up mac and cheese and we're good with that.

It's giving Panera soup vibes, only it's way better.

Trust us: This is best (and easiest!) thing you'll cook in your Instant Pot this year.

It's so cozy.

They cook in less than 10 minutes!

It never fails me.

Only three ingredients!

It's time to gild the lily.

It's what comfort food dreams are made of.

Everything is done in the same skillet in this recipe — easy cooking and easy cleanup.

Raise you hand if you agree that every night should be pasta night.

The rice-like pasta is a weeknight superhero.

Want to make pasta, but lack the motivation to do all that mixing and kneading by hand? No problem. If you have a food processor, you can have a batch of pasta dough ready in about two minutes flat. The fast-working action of the food processor blade mixes those eggs into the flour faster than your fingers ever could — and gives the dough a good kneading at the same time. The resulting dough is soft and supple.

Of course Ina has the smartest way to make lasagna ahead!

This creamy, comforting dish is calling your name.

Pro tip: Add extra-creamy burrata as soon as it comes out of the oven.

It’s been a very good chanterelle mushroom season here in the Bay Area this year. I’ve been on many forays with my mushroom club, and I’ve gone to secret collecting spots in the forest with friends. I have been dry sautéeing and drying my chanterelle hauls, and making things like this risotto recipe. The other night, I threw together this easy pasta dish.Orecchiete with Chanterelle, Sage, Walnuts, & Brown ButterIngredients2 cups of orecchiete 1 tbsp.

It's waaay better than baked mac and cheese.

Yes, it is really that quick.

Even people who think they don't like beets will fall in love with this vibrant pesto.

This rich, creamy pasta sauce was the result of an experiment. We wanted to make a creamy, mushroom-y pasta topping with no cream. We’re trying to watch our diet a little better, and while we were eating pasta there was no need to indulge in cream, right? Instead, the bulk of this sauce is white wine, broth, and mushrooms. We don’t use a lot of wild mushrooms – they are expensive, and just a few will do here to give flavor. The result?

When brown butter is involved you know you're in for a treat.

It features four types of cheese and a buttery breadcrumb topping.

Try this simple (yet flavor-packed!) pasta dinner ASAP.

If you asked me 10 years ago after feasting at a trattoria in Florence on fiocchetti alle pere con salsa di taleggio e asparagi that one day I would be able to replicate the experience, I would have laughed in your face. Back then the only thing I knew how to make was frozen pizza. But time has a way of changing us, and that trip to Florence changed me too. Here I am 10 years later, recreating that meal of a lifetime.