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Easy Pasta Recipes

Create a delicious pasta dish with less fuss. You'll still experience the rich taste of your favorite pastas, but with these recipes a quick and easy dinner is only moments away.

Pasta & Bean Salad

Shell macaroni and kidney beans are combined with radishes and green onion. The dressing for this healthy side dish is made from nonfat sour cream ...

Pasta Casserole

Chicken, vegetables and cheese are teamed with pasta, and then sprinkled with croutons to create a great chicken casserole. Use Cornish Hens to make this ...

Best Ever Mac and Cheese

This super-easy macaroni and cheese recipe has only three ingredients--the cooked macaroni, diced tomatoes and cheddar cheese. After combining the ingredients to thi...

Spaghetti Sauce with Wine

Canned crushed tomatoes are combined with red wine, vegetables, garlic, oregano, basil, rosemary, and marjoram, then slowly simmered to make this salt free spaghetti...

Rigatoni & Gravy

The "gravy" in this easy pasta recipe is a jar of marinara sauce that's dressed up with onions, carrots, green pepper, and garlic.

Fettucine Alfredo with Peas and Prosciutto

The fettuccine is cooked in a chicken broth and milk mixture, which isn't drained off. It's combined with peas, sour cream, parmesan, nutmeg and prosciutto, ...

Creamed Chipped Beef Casserole

This mixture of dried beef, noodles, onion, mushrooms and peas is combined with a flour-thickened sauce made with cream cheese, milk, and cheddar cheese, then ...

Garlic Shrimp and Pasta

Shrimp served with a light broth that has been seasoned with garlic.

Angel Hair Pasta w/ Chicken

Chicken breasts are cooked in broth along with carrot slices, broccoli flowerettes, garlic and basil, then served atop angel hair pasta and sprinkled with parmesan.

Classic Pesto

This recipe for basil pesto also contains nuts (either walnuts or pine nuts), garlic, and parmesan cheese, and is made in a food processor.

Macaroni & Cheese

Here's an easy way to prepare macaroni and cheese. Just layer the cooked macaroni with bread crumbs, cheese, and butter and then add milk.

Creamette Casserole

Macaroni is cooked and layered in a casserole with bread crumbs, onion, pimiento, and Velveeta cheese. An egg and milk mixture is poured over and ...

Tunaroni Salad

A wonderful tuna salad with macaroni noodles that is dotted with peas and dill pickles with aromatic sage.

Pasta w/Arugula and Plum Tomatoes

Hot cooked pasta is coated with a tomato sauce and parmesan cheese. The sauce is made with plum (roma)tomatoes, light cream, chicken broth, and chopped ...

Mexican Rice

Tomatoes, onion and garlic are cooked in water, then pureed. Regular rice is browned in a skillet, and the blended tomato mixture--plus some of the ...

Rotel Chicken

Cooked angel hair pasta is combined with chunks of cooked chicken, cream of mushroom soup, Velveeta cheese, and Rotel tomatoes, then baked.

Chicken Spaghetti Casserole

Cooked spaghetti, cubed chicken and a sauce containing celery, onion, green pepper, chicken broth, milk and cream of mushroom soup are layered in a casserole ...

Hot Tortellini Salad

Use your microwave for this quick-to-fix tortellini, broccoli, and ham dish.

Baked Spaghetti

Cooked spaghetti is layered with a tomato sauce and cheddar cheese, then topped with a condensed soup mixture in this version of baked spaghetti.

Modern Macaroni Salad

A macaroni salad with Dijon, banana, banana peppers, and green olives that provides a little different twist to ordinary macaroni salads.

Skillet Spaghetti

Spaghetti is cooked right in the sauce mixture in this skip-a-step recipe. The sauce contains hamburger, onion, green pepper, tomatoes, catsup and Worcestershire.

Basil-Parsley Pesto

Basil, parsley, walnuts, Romano cheese and garlic are combined with olive oil to make this pesto which is served tossed with pasta.

Ronny's Tortellini Salad

Try this easy tortellini salad that uses veggies and shredded cheese. It makes a great side dish for dinner or lunch.

Mug O'macaroni and Cheese

These creative mugs of mac and cheese are a fun twist on the classic pasta dish. Serve them for lunch or as a side dish ...

White Sauce, Medium

This basic flour-thickened sauce is very versatile. Stir in Parmesan cheese and use as a sauce over cooked vegetables.

Tuna Fettucine Alfredo

Tuna Tetrazzini

Grandma's Mac and Cheese

Green Noodles with Ham and Cheese

Easy Pasta and Broccoli

Low-Fat Fettucine Alfredo

Easy Spaghetti Dinner

Macaroni Rosey

Sweet and Tangy Spaghetti Sauce

Easy Artichoke Ziti

Caramelized Onion Pasta

"Simply The Best" Chicken

Mac and Cheese with Sausage and Apples

Express Lane Mac and Cheese

Southwestern Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti

Firey Lemon Scented Chili Pasta

Spicy Macaroni

Best Blue Cheese, Bacon and Pineapple Pasta

Mom's Macaroni

Macaroni Tomato Bowls

Art's Pasta

Krafty Tuna Bake

Shrimp Pasta Salad

Bacon-Broccoli Pasta Fry

Moms Goulash

Cajun Shrimp Spaghetti

Susannah's Mac & Cheese

Halibut Lasagna

Kara's Sweet Ginger Chicken Delight

Mushroom Chicken Spaghetti

The Best Mac'N'Cheese Dinner

Penne with Spinach and Garlic

Rockstar Rice Pilaf

Pasta and Beans

Mac Ranch

Shrimp Alfredo Pasta

Easy Spaghetti


Cavatelli with Sausage and Escarole

This zesty pasta with chunky tomato sauce, Italian sausage and greens will ward off spring's chill. Diced fontina cheese stirred into the sauce just before ...

Penne with Broccoli and Dried Tomatoes

Is this Italian? Or is it Chinese? With flavors borrowed from both cuisines, this hearty vegetable dish should please about everyone.

Mostaccioli with Beans and Tomatoes

Toss the warm vegetable-pasta combo with the low-fat white wine sauce.