Pasta
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
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
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
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
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
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
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