Best Pasta Dinners. 20 incredibly delicious dishes!

A summary of our Best Pasta Dinners. From Lasagna to Fettuccine Alfredo and beyond. Comfort food for everyone!

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Best Pasta Dinners

20 of our best Pasta Dinners from over the past decade on Rock Recipes. From family favourites to dinner party worthy dishes, all are easy to prepare and sure to impress. Our collection runs the gamut from traditional favourites like a rich, flavoured Bolognese to seafood sensations like Lemon Scallops Linguine. These are destined to become some of your favourite pasta dishes too.

Chicken Chorizo Lasagna

Chicken Chorizo Lasagna. Another of our deliciously different classic pasta dinner recipes with a super flavourful twist. This will easily become a new family favourite!

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Creamy Lemon Pepper Scallops Linguine

Creamy Lemon Pepper Scallops Linguine. So simple, quick, easy and delicious but elegant enough to serve at a dinner party.

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Garlic Chicken Puttanesca

Garlic Chicken Puttanesca. One of the quickest, easiest and most flavourful pasta dinners ever. Sure to become a weekday family favourite.

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Lemon Chicken Asparagus Spaghetti

Lemon Chicken Asparagus Spaghetti. A warm pasta dinner salad with bright flavours that’s quick cooking, nutritious and delicious. An ideal weekday family meal. Use whole wheat pasta if you like.

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Creamy Garlic Scallop Spaghetti with Bacon

Creamy Garlic Scallop Spaghetti with Bacon. Updated to add recipe video! Ready in well under 30 minutes, this in one quick & easy meal that’s sure to impress. It easily adapts to serve just two as well, making it an ideal choice for a romantic dinner.

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Fettuccine Alfredo - using only 5 ingredients

Fettuccine Alfredo. Using only 5 ingredients. Simple preparation and top quality ingredients ensure the best, creamiest and most flavourful Fettuccine Alfredo every time.

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Creamy Cajun Shrimp Spaghetti

Creamy Cajun Shrimp Spaghetti. An amazingly delicious fusion of Cajun and Italian cuisines in one of the most popular pasta dishes ever to appear on Rock Recipes.

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Dijon Chicken Linguine with Crimini Mushrooms and Toasted Almonds

Dijon Chicken Linguine with Crimini Mushrooms and Toasted Almonds. A simple delicious chicken and pasta dish with a creamy Dijon sauce. Good for both quick and easy meals or an impressive dinner party dish.

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Best Bolognese Sauce. Slow simmered to flavourful perfection!

The best Bolognese sauce is not a tomato sauce, it is a deep richly flavoured beef sauce with very few ingredients & takes it’s time simmering to perfection.

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Amatriciana Pasta with Chicken (or Chicken Fettuccine with Blush Tomato Sauce)

Amatriciana Pasta with Chicken (or Chicken Fettuccine with Blush Tomato Sauce). A simple but delicious chicken and pasta dish that you can make any day of the week or even to serve at a dinner party.

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Spinach Pesto Pappardelle

Spinach pesto on pappardelle pasta is an easy tasty, way to get some nutritious spinach onto the plate.

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Turkey Parmesan Baked Rotini

This Turkey Parmesan Baked Rotini is our most popular leftover turkey recipe to date on Rock Recipes and for very good reason. Leftovers never tasted so good.

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Mediterranean Lemon Chicken Orzo Salad

Mediterranean Lemon Chicken Orzo Salad. A leftover rescue recipe! A fantastic combination of flavours in this delicious pasta salad that’s a meal in itself.

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Cheesy Tomato Basil Baked Tortellini with Parmesan Pepper Crumb Topping

Cheesy Tomato Basil Baked Tortellini with Parmesan Pepper Crumb Topping. A simple but delicious baked pasta dinner that’s sure to make it’s way into your regular dinner rotation.

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Best Spaghetti and Meatballs

My version of the Best Spaghetti and Meatballs mixes both beef and pork and echoes the flavours of good Italian sausage in the tender, juicy meatballs, while keeping the tomato sauce as simple as possible.

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Almond Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Linguine with Shrimp

Almond Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Linguine. A super quick and easy workday meal with added shrimp or grilled chicken or all on its own as a great vegetarian meal.

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Bacon Macaroni and Cheese

Bacon Macaroni and Cheese. Three cheeses and plenty crisp bacon cooked right in, make this an ultimate comfort food side dish or complete meal.

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Spanakopita Lasagna

Spanakopita Lasagna. A fusion of Greek and Italian cuisines in a rich, incredibly flavourful lasagna, piled with layers of goat cheese, feta and spinach filling.

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Cajun Scallop Puttanesca

Cajun Scallops Puttanesca. These are a few of my favourite things. A spicy fusion of Italian and Louisiana cuisines.

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Seafood Shells and Cheese

This seafood shells & cheese recipe is basically fancified mac & cheese. Make it as Shrimp Mac & Cheese, Lobster Mac & Cheese or Scallops Mac & Cheese! Smoked cheese in the sauce and ground almonds in the crumb topping makes it extra special.

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30 Minute Chicken Parmesan

BONUS RECIPE!! This quick and easy recipe for 30 Minute Chicken Parmesan has been a supper standard in our family for many, many, years. It is still my kid’s absolute favourite no fuss dinner. 

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