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Sausage and fontina baked rigatoni
Recruit sausages as meatballs for this rich, comforting and easy dinner.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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How to cheat at making meatballs (plus 49 more perfect pasta recipes)
From the all-time classics like bolognese and carbonara to quick and easy midweek lifesavers, give these essential Italian recipes a twirl.
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Pappardelle don’t preach: Five hearty but silky pastas to make this weekend
Featuring Danielle Alvarez’s new pappardelle with white pork ragu, sage and lemon – perfect for low-key meals with mates.
Pappardelle with white pork ragu, sage and lemon
This classic Italian dish of pork cooked in milk might sound a bit odd, but it’s a revelation.
- 2 hrs +
- Danielle Alvarez
Soup of the carbonara variety
Traditionalists, look away. This lovely, hearty soup is pasta you can slurp with a spoon.
- < 30 mins
- Katrina Meynink
Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu
This cheat’s pasta sauce will taste as if you’ve been working on it all day, with no slicing, dicing or chopping required.
- 1-2 hrs
- Danielle Alvarez
This simple slow-cooker tomato soup with shop-bought tortellini is pure comfort
Plus a hearty steak and Guinness pie and a chilli con carne macaroni melt that will come up beautifully in your slow cooker.
- Nathan Anthony
Cheat’s pork sausage ragu with burrata and casarecce
Caramelising the sausage meat and coating it in sun-dried tomato pesto is a shortcut to deep flavour in no time.
- < 30 mins
- Katrina Meynink
Pasta with shallot, chorizo and tinned tomato sauce
Slow-roasted eschalots do ungodly decadent things to anything they lend their flavour to, such as this simple tomato sauce.
- 1-2 hrs
- Katrina Meynink
Caramelised fennel, lemon and chilli pasta
This decadent, silky sauce comes together in a blender.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Katrina Meynink