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    25 Easy Pasta Recipes: Delicious and Simple

    By Julia | Updated: Feb 13, 2018 | Published: Jan 23, 2015 | 15 Comments

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    If you love pasta, these 25 easy pasta recipes are exactly what you need.  Here you will find all kinds of delicious pasta ideas: fettuccine, spaghetti, penne, lasagna, homemade ravioli, and tortellini recipes. You will find lots of options to choose from to help you in planning your weeknight or weekend dinners. If you are on a gluten free diet, at least half of these easy pasta recipes have been tested with gluten free brown rice pasta, and they worked great!

    1. Chicken Mozzarella Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomatoes - simple pasta recipe that uses basic ingredients like chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, basil, Mozzarella cheese.

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    2. Creamy Shrimp and Mushroom Pasta - this is one of the best and easy pasta recipe ideas to enjoy seafood!

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    3. Shrimp, tomato, and spinach pasta in garlic butter sauce - one of my favorite easy pasta recipes!

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    4. Garlic Mushroom Pasta - so simple and delicious!

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    5. Spicy Shrimp Pasta in Garlic Tomato Cream Sauce - this delicious recipe combines spices, seafood, penne pasta, and tomatoes together in one pasta dish!

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    6. Parmesan Zucchini and Garlic Pasta

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    7. Chicken and Bacon Pasta with Spinach and Tomatoes in Garlic Cream Sauce - this is one of the best easy chicken pasta recipes I ever made! Lots of vegetables, chicken and bacon – and all of that is mixed in a delicious, creamy, homemade alfredo sauce.

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    8. Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken, Broccoli, and Bacon - This simple pasta dish has all of my favorite ingredients:  creamy broccoli, bacon, chicken breast – all combined in a delicious creamy Parmesan sauce.

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    9. Chicken Spaghetti Pasta with Spinach and Tomatoes - easy and delicious way to cook spaghetti with fresh vegetables!

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    10. Creamy Asiago Cheese Garlic Tortellini - this easy tortellini dish will beat many pasta recipes for its simplicity and deliciousness!

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    11. Mushroom Chicken Pasta with creamy Pesto sauce and sun-dried tomatoes

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    12. Shrimp Pasta in a delicious creamy mozzarella sauce - one of the best easy pasta recipes with shrimp!

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    13. Garlic Shrimp Alfredo Pasta

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    14. Mac and Cheese with Sausage and Bell Peppers, smothered in marinara sauce and cream

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    15. Homemade Creamy Four Cheese Garlic Spaghetti Sauce - don't let this simple pasta recipe fool you - it's so good you won't be able to stop eating it!  Also, this amazing pasta dish goes great with grilled chicken and other grilled meats!

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    16. Butternut Squash and Spinach Lasagna - this pasta dish received so many great reviews.  It's definitely one of the best pasta recipes I ever made.  It's easy, but just like with any lasagna recipe - it takes a little longer to make lasagna than to make, say, a regular chicken pasta.

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    17. Easy pasta carbonara – perfect weeknight dish

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    18. Sun-dried tomato and mushroom pasta in a garlic and basil sauce.  If you're looking for meatless easy pasta recipes - this is super delicious!

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    19. Creamy mushroom pasta with caramelized onions and spinach - another great option for meatless easy pasta recipes.

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    20. Easy Fettuccine Alfredo

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    21. Easy homemade macaroni and cheese - one of the best pasta recipes for mac and cheeseEasy homemade macaroni and cheese

    22. Macaroni and cheese with bacon and caramelized onions - one of the best pasta recipe ideas for adult version of mac and cheese

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    23. Chicken parmesan pasta in a garlic tomato sauce

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    24. Easy marinara sauce

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    25. Stuffed manicotti pasta shells recipe with ricotta cheese and spinach filling

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    1. Ranny Watson

      September 20, 2019 at 9:20 am

      Hey
      Thanks for sharing these different kinds of Italian pasta recipes. They look awesome and delicious. I will try these recipes at home.

      Reply
      • Julia

        September 28, 2019 at 1:45 pm

        Enjoy!

        Reply
    2. Margaret young

      August 07, 2018 at 7:35 pm

      I plan to make the dried tomato and mushroom pasta in garlic and basil sauce with pieces of chicken breast for 30 people at what should the quantity be?

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      • Julia

        August 16, 2018 at 1:40 pm

        That’s a huge number of people to cook for! I have to admit I never cooked for that many people. I know this recipe can be safely doubled so I am sure it’s doable for 30 people assuming you have enough pans or big enough pans. When cooking this kind of pasta recipe for lot of people, do make sure to add ENOUGH SPICES AND SALT, otherwise your sauce will be completely bland, especially if you’re cooking in large quantities. As to give you an idea of how much chicken to use, here is a similar recipe with chicken: chicken mozzarella pasta with sun-dried tomatoes.

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    3. Margaret Rogers

      July 23, 2017 at 10:20 pm

      Hi Julia, your pasta recipes sound fabulous, I am looking at trying your "Chicken & Broccoli Pasta with Sun Dried Tomato Cream Sauce", one of the ingredients listed is
      "1 cup of half and half", did you mean Parmesan or please advise?

      Reply
    4. Sally

      October 06, 2016 at 6:23 am

      Hi I love your spinach & ricotta ravioli recipe, thank you. I would like a recipe for beef lasagne to serve 6 - 8 please, thank you

      Reply
    5. Rachael

      May 30, 2015 at 1:56 pm

      I'm so glad I came across your web-site (found on Yummly). I plan on making the strawberry cake with chocolate chips to take to church tomorrow. Look's delicious! I look forward to making the pasta dish's you have here too. Thank-you.

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    6. Kiran @ KiranTarun.com

      January 31, 2015 at 1:12 am

      Everything looks so comforting here 🙂

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    7. John@Kitchen Riffs

      January 28, 2015 at 11:34 am

      I can never get enough pasta. And these ideas will keep me busy for the next month. 😉 Thanks!

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    8. Stacy | Wicked Good Kitchen

      January 27, 2015 at 12:35 am

      Wow! It's amazing that you have made 25 pasta recipes on your blog already...and, they are all fabulous! I have already pinned, but will be pinning again. 🙂 Thanks for sharing, my friend. Have a great week! xo

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    9. Beth

      January 26, 2015 at 5:32 pm

      Everything looks great, but I'm especially tempted by the vegetarian lasagna and the stuffed shells. Yum!

      Reply
    10. Bonnie Sanders

      January 23, 2015 at 2:02 pm

      Wow! These all look delicious! Thank you, I've pinned quite a few and can't wait to try them.

      Reply
    11. Monique

      January 23, 2015 at 9:03 am

      Thanks Julia..You have treatedus with some great recipes..
      I just happen to have a Pasta folder on Pinterest:)
      Done:)

      Reply

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