Homemade orecchiette (with mushroom sauce)
Learn how to make homemade orecchiette with chef Jun Tanaka’s step-by-step recipe and handy tips and…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 40 min hands-on◆ Challenge
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Creamy pasta recipes
Your favourite pasta covered in a decadent, creamy sauce – dinnertime doesn’t get much better than that. Try one of our 40+ creamy pasta recipes when you need a comfort food fix in a hurry. It’s an easy, budget-friendly option and and gives you that hug-in-a-bowl feeling for minimal effort.
Our top creamy pasta recipes include a quick ham carbonara, velvety cacio e pepe, caesar tagliatelle and a silky fettuccine alfredo. For a fancier occasion, try our alternative options such as cavatelli with crab, chilli and lemon and baked pasta with peas, broad beans and herbs by Italian chef Francesco Mazzei.
We have plenty of veggie and vegan options too, including a plant-based creamy cashew pasta and vegan sausage and spinach bowlful.
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Pasta ‘risotto’ with broccoli and walnut pesto
This pasta ‘risotto’ broccoli and walnut pesto has some tricks up its sleeve. Cooking your pasta…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 10 min hands-on · 30 min oven◆ Easy
Negresco (Egyptian chicken pasta bake)
This Egyptian chicken pasta bake from food writer Soha Darwish is a crowdpleaser. “Sharing the recipe…
Freezable
🍽 Serves 6-8⏱ 20 min hands-on · 1 hour 45 min oven◆ Easy
Chicken alfredo
Creamy and rich with a hint of garlic and dried herbs, this simple chicken alfredo pasta…
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 40 min hands-on◆ Easy
Pasta alla norcina
Umbria is famous for its pork products, and this indulgent pasta dish from the town of…
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 30 min. Simmering time 10 min hands-on · 10 min oven◆ Easy
Creamy mushroom egg yolk pasta
Adding an egg yolk to the centre of this rich mushroom pasta makes the most luxurious,…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 25 min hands-on◆ Easy
Chicken caesar pasta
What do you get when you take a caesar salad dressing, emulsify it like a carbonara…
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 40 min hands-on◆ Easy
Creamy trout and caper linguine
This new pasta classic proves cooking fish is easier than you think. Trout fillets are baked…
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 30 min hands-on◆ Easy
Creamy vegan cashew and artichoke pasta
Whizzed cashews provide the perfect base for creamy vegan sauces, as this super-quick pasta recipe demonstrates.…
Dairy-freeVegan
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 25 min hands-on◆ Easy
Creamy chicken sausage pasta
This dish is inspired by Italy’s pasta alla norcina – a cream and sausage-based sauce. We’ve…
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 25 minutes hands-on◆ Easy
Bucatini cacio e pepe
Cacio e pepe is one of those dishes that rely on the method as much as…
🍽 Serves 2⏱ 20 min hands-on◆ Easy
Pressure cooker creamy chicken pasta
Throw everything in the pot and get creamy chicken pasta from pantry to table in under…
Freezable
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 15 min. Simmering time 6 min hands-on · 6 min oven◆ Easy
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