Easy weeknight pasta recipes in 30 minutes or less
Stir the sauce through pasta, cooked rice and tinned tuna, or serve as a dip. (ABC Everyday: Heidi Sze)
Get your water boiling and grab your favourite pasta shape.
Here are seven easy pastas that can be made in 30 minutes or less, all using a few simple ingredients.
Easy red pesto pasta
Pesto pasta is a weeknight classic and this version uses tomato paste, sun-dried tomatoes and jarred chargrilled capsicums. Blitz together with Parmesan, garlic and pine nuts and you'll have enough pesto to serve between 6-8.
Zucchini spaghetti in 30 minutes
This quick vegetarian dinner is ready in 20-30 minutes. (ABC News: Clementine Day)
The prep for this simple meal can be done while the water boils for your pasta, with the sauce coming together as the spaghetti cooks. You'll be rewarded with a silky veggie-filled pasta, with lemon juice and fresh herbs stirred through before serving.
One-pot baked chicken and pesto gnocchi
Perfect for busy weeknights, Lina's baked chicken and pesto gnocchi is packed with flavour. (ABC Everyday: Lina Jebeile)
You won't need to pre-boil the gnocchi in this easy recipe. Simply sear the chicken, toss in a pack of gnocchi with the remaining ingredients and bake for 20 minutes.
Spaghetti all puttanesca with ricotta
This dinner is simple and satisfying, and made mostly with pantry ingredients. (ABC News: Julia Busuttil Nishimura)
This classic dish is ready in 25 minutes. Whole tinned tomatoes are the base of the simple sauce, with chili, anchovies, olives and capers adding bold flavour quickly. Option to serve with a dollop of fresh ricotta for creaminess.
Speedy one-pot asparagus and tuna pasta
One-pot pasta is a speedy weeknight dinner with hardly any washing up. (ABC Everyday: Heidi Sze)
Make a quick and satisfying meal with a packet of spaghetti, tinned tuna and frozen peas as your base. The spaghetti cooks in a combination of stock and water, which forms the sauce, with lemon, chilli flakes and asparagus adding flavour, heat and crunch. The cook time for this dish is a fast 15 minutes.
Chicken, herb and cheese pasta using leftover chicken
Learn a foolproof way to roast chicken then make this easy pasta with leftovers. (ABC Everyday: Alice Zaslavsky/Luke Tribe)
This is an excellent meal to make with leftover roast chicken, whether homemade or from the supermarket. Make the sauce while your pasta cooks, by frying some shallots, reheating the shredded chicken before stirring cheese, herbs and pasta to finish.
Broccoli and feta fusilli
Quick, cheesy and veggie-filled, this pasta is perfect for weeknights. (ABC News: Hetty Lui McKinnon)
This cheese and veggie pasta uses a whole packet of fusilli and two heads of broccoli, so you know it will make a decent amount and be good for you, too. Roasted walnuts add crunch, and you can buy them pre-roasted to save on time.