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If you are unable to source fontina cheese substitute with gruyère.

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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.

50 recipes
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If you are unable to source fontina cheese substitute with gruyère.
EASY

Sausage and fontina baked rigatoni

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Adam Liaw’s Australian bolognese.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s Australian bolognese

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
This creamy fennel sauce comes together in a blender.
EASY

Caramelised fennel, lemon and chilli pasta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Prawn and chillli linguine,
EASY

Prawn and chilli linguine

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Spaghetti with pumpkin, thyme and brown butter.
EASY

Spaghetti with pumpkin, thyme and brown butter

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Silky sausage ragu with creamy burrata cheese.
EASY

Cheat’s pork sausage ragu with burrata and casarecce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
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Spoil yourself with this seriously saucy penne puttanesca

Neil Perry's cacio e pepe pasta.
EASY

Cacio e pepe (cheese and pepper) pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
EASY

Rigatoni with ‘embarrassingly simple’ sausage and red wine ragu

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Hetty McKinnon says frozen spinach is the magic ingredient in this simple vegetarian pasta.
EASY

Spinach and walnut pesto pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Hetty McKinnon
Casarecce with pork and fennel ragu.

Casarecce with pork and fennel ragu

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Pantry spaghetti with 'poor man's cheese' (crispy breadcrumbs).

Julia Busuttil Nishimura's pantry spaghetti

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Timing is everything when making this creamy, cheesy, peppery pasta.

The perfect spaghetti carbonara

  • Jill Dupleix
Pasta with slow-roasted shallot, chorizo and garlic sauce.
EASY

Pasta with shallot, chorizo and tinned tomato sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Fettuccine alla vodka for two.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s fettuccine alla vodka

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Vary this go-to pasta dish by adding some cherry tomatoes or even a sprinkling of toasted breadcrumbs.
EASY

Linguine with spicy tuna, olives and capers

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Swap pesto for romesco in this pasta.

Romesco and goat's curd fettuccine

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Creamy pasta with sausage.
EASY

Pasta alla Norcina (creamy pasta with sausage)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
The can't-be-beat, benchmark Australian-Italian spag bol.

Italian-Australian spaghetti bolognese

  • 2 hrs +
  • Jill Dupleix
Use the ripest tomato you can find, a little over ripe is even better
EASY

Karen Martini’s one-tray roasted tomato, red capsicum and chilli sauce for pasta

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Pasta limone gets the assassina treatment.
EASY

Spaghetti assassina meets pasta limone

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
10-minute chilli, prawn and corn pasta.
EASY

Chilli, prawn and corn pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
EASY

Adam Liaw’s rigatoni with radicchio and pancetta

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pecorino romano and parmigiano reggiano is a great substitute for the typical provolone del monaco cheese.
EASY

Spaghetti alla nerano (spaghetti with zucchini)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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This chicken pasta bake is a one-pot wonder.
EASY

Chicken and vodka pasta bake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
When considering comfort food, it’s hard to pass on a classic spaghetti carbonara.

The sauciest vegetarian carbonara

  • Staff Writer
Crispy goodness: Spaghetti all’assassina (aka assassin’s spaghetti).
EASY

Spaghetti all’assassina (assassin’s spaghetti)

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Spaghettone all’amatriciana.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s spaghetti amatriciana

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s beef short-rib ragu.

Beef short-rib ragu

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Neil Perry's pan-fried gnocchi with roast tomato sauce.

Pan-fried gnocchi with roast tomato and basil sauce and crispy pancetta

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Cacio e pepe meets spaghetti and meatballs.
EASY

Cacio e pepe spaghetti and meatball pasta bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Penne with lobster and prosciutto.
EASY

Penne with lobster and proscuitto

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Rigatoni with eggplant, capsicum and bocconcini.
EASY

Rigatoni with eggplant, capsicum and bocconcini

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's fettuccine with spring green pesto.
EASY

Adam Liaw's fettuccine with spring green pesto

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Serve this sugo-laden pasta with a heft of excellent cheese.
EASY

Pasta all'arrabbiata with slow-cooked sugo

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Mixed meatball spaghetti.
EASY

Adam Liaw's mixed meatball spaghetti

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw