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Pastitsio
Greek baked pasta with spiced meat sauce and creamy bechamel topping — the Greek answer to lasagna.
⏱ 80 min🔥 520 kcalMedium
★4.7(1,300)
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Greek Pasta Recipes
6 recipes using pasta — Moussaka, souvlaki, tzatziki — flavours of the Mediterranean.
These 6 greek pasta recipes are ready in about 81 minutes on average, with 290–620 kcal per serving, and 17% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
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81 min
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480 kcal
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easy recipes
How Greek cuisine cooks with pasta
Greek cooking leans on sun-ripened produce, lashings of olive oil and bright lemon and herbs to keep everything fresh and vivid. When Greek cooks work with pasta, they reach for olive oil, lemon, oregano, garlic, feta and fresh dill, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, baking and sautéing.
A versatile wheat staple that carries sauces from a few-minute aglio e olio to slow-simmered ragù. In this collection it's most often cooked with onion, fine sea salt, whole milk, garlic, olive oil and ground beef. The dishes here span greek classics ready in as little as 25 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Avgolemono (Greek Lemon and Egg Soup) is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 1,520 ratings.
6 Greek Pasta Recipes
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Pastitsio
Greece's magnificent baked pasta — layers of tubular pasta and spiced minced meat topped with a thick, creamy béchamel, baked to a golden crust.
⏱ 100 min🔥 550 kcalHard
★4.8(534)
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Avgolemono (Greek Lemon and Egg Soup)
Greece's most comforting soup — a silky, velvety chicken broth thickened with a classical egg-lemon liaison that transforms a simple stock into an impossibly smooth, creamy bowl.
⏱ 75 min🔥 290 kcalMedium
★4.9(1,520)
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Greek Orzo Salad (Kritharaki Salad)
A cold orzo pasta salad loaded with cucumber, tomato, feta, and olives in a lemon dressing.
⏱ 25 min🔥 380 kcalEasy
★4.4(59)
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Greek Braised Lamb with Orzo (Giouvetsi)
Slow-braised lamb shanks simmered with orzo in a rich tomato broth until tender and saucy.
⏱ 140 min🔥 520 kcalMedium
★4.1(76)
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Pastitsio (Greek Baked Pasta Casserole)
Layered Greek pasta bake with spiced meat sauce, tube pasta, and a golden garlic-scented béchamel top.
⏱ 68 min🔥 620 kcalHard
★4.4(24)
Choosing & preparing pasta
How to choose
Bronze-die dried pasta has a rougher surface that grips sauce better than smooth Teflon-extruded shapes. Match the shape to the sauce: long strands for oily/silky sauces, ridged tubes for chunky ones.
Prep & storage
Cook in plenty of well-salted boiling water until al dente, then finish it in the sauce with a splash of starchy pasta water to emulsify and bind.
When is it done?
Al dente means tender with a slight bite at the centre — usually a minute less than the packet time, since it keeps cooking in the sauce.
Nutrition
A complex-carbohydrate energy source; whole-wheat versions add fibre, and the al dente texture gives a lower glycaemic response.
Classic flavour partners: tomatoes, garlic, basil, parmesan, olive oil, chilli
Greek Pasta Recipes — FAQ
How long do Greek pasta recipes take to make?
Most of these 6 Greek pasta recipes are ready in around 81 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Greek Orzo Salad (Kritharaki Salad), takes about 25 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 140 minutes.
How many calories are in Greek pasta dishes?
Across this collection they range from about 290 to 620 kcal per serving, averaging 480 kcal — Avgolemono (Greek Lemon and Egg Soup) is the lightest option at 290 kcal.
What is the easiest Greek pasta recipe for beginners?
Greek Orzo Salad (Kritharaki Salad) is a great place to start — it's rated easy and comes together in about 25 minutes. 17% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
What goes well with pasta in Greek cooking?
In these recipes, pasta is most often paired with onion, fine sea salt, whole milk, garlic, olive oil and ground beef. Greek kitchens also lean on olive oil, lemon, oregano, garlic, feta and fresh dill.
How do I know when pasta is properly cooked?
Al dente means tender with a slight bite at the centre — usually a minute less than the packet time, since it keeps cooking in the sauce.
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