Comforting pasta recipes built for weeknights — creamy one-pot dinners, cheesy skillet bakes, and hearty baked pasta that feeds the whole family. From garlic Parmesan chicken pasta to Philly cheesesteak pasta and lasagna soup, most of these come together in one pan in about 30 minutes. Each pasta recipe specifies exactly which pasta shape works best and why, plus how to cook it so the sauce clings, how to loosen sauces when reheating, and what to swap if you’re out of an ingredient. Simple ingredients, big flavor, one pot to wash.
Layers of buttery spaghetti, rich beef and sausage marinara, and a creamy three-cheese filling baked under melted mozzarella. Tastes expensive, costs almost nothing.
Philly cheesesteak pasta made in one pan with tender beef, peppers, onions and melted provolone. All the sandwich flavor, ready in 30 minutes.
Crockpot Olive Garden chicken pasta with tender chicken in a creamy Italian sauce tossed with penne. Dump it in the slow cooker and forget about it.
Lasagna soup with all the flavor of baked lasagna in one pot. Italian sausage, broken noodles, tomato sauce and ricotta on top, ready in 30 minutes.
One-pot garlic parmesan chicken pasta in a creamy sauce. The pasta cooks right in the sauce, so there is one pan to wash and no draining.