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These 81 Easy Pasta Recipes Are Your Weeknight-Dinner Saviors

They're all practical and delicious.
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Photo by Alex Lau, Food Styling by Susie Theodorou, Prop Styling by Sophie Strangio

Sure, these easy pasta recipes are fairly simple to make: you’ll find most of the ingredients in your pantry, pasta is, by nature, only a quick boil away, and let’s be honest, you probably have pre-grated parm in the fridge right now. (Oh, you have a wedge do you? That’s grate!) But they’re all more than just fast and convenient: They’re all big on flavor, too. So yeah, you’re making no-cook puttanesca and that sizzling one-pot sausage number because they’re easy pasta recipes—but also because they’re so damn tasty!

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    Tagliatelle With Prosciutto and Peas

    It’s okay to use frozen peas! We’ll never tell. We love ‘em.

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  • A plate of fettuccine Alfredo pasta topped with grated Parmesan and freshly ground black pepper.
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    Fettuccine Alfredo

    Classic, silky Alfredo sauce comes from the emulsion of grated Parmesan, cold butter, and starchy pasta water. Keep the cream out of it.

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    Red Pesto Pasta

    This red pesto tastes like a mash-up of your favorite spicy arrabbiata sauce and the anchovy-garlic dip bagna cauda. All of which is to say, it’s delicious.

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  • A lemon pasta dish with spaghetti and a lemoncream sauce topped with strips of lemon zest and black pepper.
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    Pasta al Limone (Lemon Pasta)

    This creamy lemon pasta recipe is luscious and amply cheesy, but still bright and fresh. Best part: You can make it for dinner in just 15 minutes.

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  • A bowl of pasta in a mushroom cream sauce topped with shredded Parmesan and chopped parsley.
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    Creamy Mushroom Pasta

    Crispy mushrooms and a Parmesan cream sauce combine in this cozy weeknight dinner.

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  • Spaghetti with NoCook Puttanesca
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    Spaghetti With No-Cook Puttanesca

    A bright, summertime pasta sauce packed with in-season tomatoes and briny olives.

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    Shrimp Scampi Pasta

    Buttery, garlicky, irresistible shrimp scampi—but make it pasta.

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  • Two plates of spaghetti carbonara with guanciale and shredded Pecorino with glasses of rose.
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    Spaghetti Carbonara

    Made with just a few ingredients, this is the ideal fancy-but-easy dinner.

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  • A plate of rigatoni pasta alla vodka topped with basil leaves and Parmesan.
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    Pasta Alla Vodka

    A creamy, cheesy, tangy pasta alla vodka that’s weeknight-easy but dinner-party-worthy.

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  • Red wine pasta recipe
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    Red Wine Spaghetti

    It’s a showstopper. Two bottles of red wine get cooked down to a glossy butter sauce that stains and flavors the spaghetti.

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