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Pasta

Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
EASY

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
Spicy tomato, tortellini and chilli soup.

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
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s froga tat tarja (Maltese spaghetti frittata).
EASY

Froga tat-tarja (Maltese spaghetti frittata)

A humble recipe with just a handful of ingredients, this thrifty frittata is one of my childhood favourites.

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Silky sausage ragu with creamy burrata cheese.
EASY

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 slow-roasted shallot, chorizo and garlic sauce.
EASY

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
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This creamy fennel sauce comes together in a blender.
EASY

Caramelised fennel, lemon and chilli pasta

This decadent, silky sauce comes together in a blender.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Peruvian-inspired green spaghetti with smoked almonds.
EASY

Peruvian-style green spaghetti with spinach, feta and smoked almonds

The influx of Italians in Peru in the early 1800s resulted in this twist on the Ligurian pesto pasta, known as tallarines verdes.

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Mince stroganoff.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s mince stroganoff

You can serve your mince stroganoff with buttered pasta or even a thick slice of sourdough, but I love it best with rice.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
The optional addition of browned butter and sage results in a nutty flavour.

Roast pumpkin orzo ‘risotto’ with brown butter and sage

A creamy roast-pumpkin pasta that’s cooked like a risotto.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Rainbow chard and orzo salad with crispy feta.
EASY

Eat the rainbow with this chard and orzo salad with crispy feta

The combination of wholesome green leaves, crisp, salty feta and the nutty, spicy Middle Eastern condiment dukkah make this robust pasta salad irresistible.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook