Healthy Pasta Recipes You'll Want To Make Every Night Of The Week (2024)

Pesto is great for a quick meal, but the jarred version never quite seems to retain the vibrant green colour and aroma of freshly blitzed, homemade pesto. Traditional pesto usually uses basil, pine nuts and heaps of Parmesan, so we've tried to make our version a little bit healthier, incorporating pumpkin seeds, kale and avocado instead (sorry to the Italians reading this!)

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There's nothing worse than a pasta salad with mushy pasta. Learn how to cook pasta (it's trickier than you think!) and get your fusilli perfectly al dente.

Get the Chicken Pasta Salad recipe.

Go ca-prazay!

Get the Caprese Chicken Pasta recipe.

With no meat to get in the way this lasagne isn't messing around. Here are our top tips for getting it perfect every time.

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Smoked salmon pasta sounds really fancy, but the truth is, it's the easiest and fastest pasta we've ever made.

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This pasta tastes like spring!

Get the Lemon Asparagus Chicken Pasta recipe.

With fresh spinach and the unexpected crunch and peppery flavour of rad­ishes, this isn't your run-of-the-mill pasta with clam sauce.

Get the Angel Hair Pasta with Clams recipe.

Not a big fan of spice? Feel free to reduce the amount of poblanos to 2 or 3, supplementing with roasted green bell pepper instead if you like!

Get the Green Spaghetti recipe.

This is the perfect side for your next BBQ.

Get the Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad recipe.

Cacio e pepe literally translates to “cheese and pepper,” and while those are the prominent flavours here, this dish is SO much more. It’s transformative. And what makes it so perfect? Its simplicity.

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The key to acing this dish is to cook the asparagus until its tips are crispy and stalks slightly blistered. The slight char will add a whole other dimension to the enticing flavour of this vegetable.

Get the Lemon, Garlic And Asparagus Pasta recipe.

Orecchiette, literally translating to "little ears" in Italian, is a crazy underrated and under-utilised pasta in the home kitchen. The tiny little indentations catch so much sauce! Here, the sauce is similar to that of cacio e pepe. You just need butter, pasta water, pepper, and cheese. Toasting the pepper in butter is key, folks. DO NOT skip it.

Get the Orecchiette With Broccoli Rabe recipe.

In our opinion, pasta salad is a summer must.

Get the Italian Pasta Salad recipe.

This is the perfect spring dish. It's fresh and light, and it instantly had us in love. If you can't find bucatini, use any long pasta like spaghetti or linguine!

Get the Lemon Ricotta Pasta recipe.

Anchovies are totally optional in this recipe. The garlic, however, is not!

Get the Garlicky Spaghetti recipe.

When it comes to pasta we want something simple and fast. Pasta Pomodoro is a step above from Spaghetti and Meatballs and highlights the freshness of tomatoes — pomodoro means 'tomato' in Italian.

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Vegetable spaghetti is the perfect way to use up leftover veggies. Use whatever you have on hand, don't feel married to these specific ones. They are just a good starting point.

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Grilled courgette and aubergine make this pasta into a hearty meal.

Get the Grilled Vegetable Rigatoni recipe.

Cashew sauce mixed with lemon zest and asparagus, sounds dreamyyyy.

Get the Vegan Lemon Asparagus Pasta recipe.

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Creamy avo in pasta? Count me in.

Get the Avocado Pasta recipe.

Recipe by Choosing Chia.