This incredibly creamy and cheesy homemade mac and cheese is great on its own or a jumping off point for your own customization.
Quick Pasta Recipes
40+ Quick Pasta Recipes to Rescue Dinnertime Ruts
Whether you’re feeling like Italian food or perhaps something with an Asian flair, you’ll find this collection of quick pasta recipes brimming with flavor. These simple recipes churn out tasty results in no time. They’re all quick and easy so you’ll spend less time by the stove and more time with the ones you love.
Simple and Tasty Homemade Dinner
Your next homemade dinner awaits with quick pasta recipes like One Pot Creamy Pesto Chicken Pasta. Full of bold and zesty flavors, all you need is a salad to round out the meal. For vegans, the Quick Veggie Pasta has you covered with the rich taste of tomatoes and a bounty of veggies to bring it all together. Whether you’re looking for a side dish or a pasta main, we’ve got pasta recipes to make your homemade dinner complete.
Quick and Easy Pasta Recipes with Few Ingredients
Quick pasta recipes can be as easy as throwing a few things together for an epic dinner. Bowties and Broccoli will be on your table in no time and can be customized to your liking. For something quick with few ingredients that looks and tastes like it took much longer, One Pot Creamy Mushroom Pasta can even impress last-minute guests. Discover great quick pasta meals for any occasion!
This one pot veggie pasta is an easy, satisfying, and quick dinner. Use whatever vegetables you have on hand and make it your own!
This creamy mushroom pasta is a rich, umami-filled delight that cooks quickly and easily in one pot. The perfect dinner for busy nights.
This Ranch Broccoli Pasta just takes minutes to make and is full of deliciously creamy, tangy, herby ranch flavor!
Use up your leftover odds and ends in the kitchen because "anything goes" with this Quick Veggie Pasta! Make it vegetarian or vegan!
Creamy Monterey Jack cheese, tangy diced green chiles, and a little earthy cumin make this green chile mac and cheese anything but ordinary!
Guess what time it is! Comfort-food-o’clock. And what makes better comfort food than a rich creamy pasta dish, like this One Pot Beef and Mushroom Stroganoff? This is yet another “better than the box”...
This Broccoli Pasta Salad features a tangy homemade vinaigrette, nutty sunflower seeds, and creamy-salty feta.
Lemon Parsley Pasta is bright, garlicky, and full of rich Parmesan flavor. It makes a great side dish or bed for chicken or fish.
This Spicy Peanut Butter Ramen is an easy way to upgrade this inexpensive convenience food. It's super quick, filling, and can be customized a hundred ways.
I’ve been experimenting with shrimp a lot lately. Yes, it can be a little on the expensive side, but if you pair it whith an inexpensive ingredient like pasta, you can really stretch that...
I’m all about the quick skillet meals because, let’s face it, sometimes after a long day of work you don’t really want to cook anything… but you still gotta eat. This super quick Creamy...
I love good quality food, but I also have a small place in my heart reserved for convenience foods like instant ramen or frozen pizzas. I don’t indulge in them often, and when I...
Y’all know I love one pot pasta meals, and I know a lot of you do too. They’re quick, easy, and pack a lot of flavor into only one little dish that needs to...
This is kind of just like a basic Italian pasta salad, but I’m calling it “Pizza Pasta Salad” because this is how I use my leftover pizza toppings. Haha! When you buy a jar...
There’s something really special about the simplicity of pasta with butter, salt, and pepper. The creaminess of the butter and the little pops of salt and pepper sitting on the surface of the pasta,...
Have you ever tried Garlic Noodles? They’re a super rich, buttery, salty-sweet, umami filled dream. I usually serve them as a side dish, but this week I decided to just go ahead and turn...
This One Pot Creamy Pesto Chicken Pasta was inspired by those little packets of powdered pasta sauce mix I always see in the grocery store. While those little packets are probably great for camping,...
Off the record, I call this one “poor man’s Caprese salad” because it’s based on Caprese salad, but with all the budget swaps I’ve made, I don’t think I can get away with calling...
This Spicy Orecchiette with Chicken Sausage and Kale is a variation on one of my favorite fast weeknight dinners, pasta + parmesan + vegetable. If you’re a Budget Bytes veteran you probably have this...
