Italian Pasta Recipes

Italian cooking is built on restraint — a handful of excellent ingredients treated simply, letting each one taste of itself. When Italian cooks work with pasta, they reach for olive oil, garlic, basil, oregano, tomatoes, parmesan and a good splash of wine, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, frying 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 olive oil, garlic, fine sea salt, basil, onion and citrus juice or vinegar. The dishes here span italian classics ready in as little as 17 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Carbonara Romana Classica is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 4,280 ratings.