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Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.

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15 hearty winter pasta recipes to cook this week

Warm your kitchen and your soul with these dinners packed with rich flavours and comforting ingredients, ideal for any night of the week.

15 recipes
The Italian-American classic of pasta alla vodka gets a shake up with fudgy roasted eggplant.
EASY

Roasted eggplants alla vodka

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
This rich bolognese sauce is enhanced by caramelised fennel and onion.
EASY

Fettuccine with caramelised fennel bolognese, parsley pesto and burrata

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Danielle Alvarez’s rigatoni with sausage, red wine and tomato ragu.
EASY

Rigatoni with sausage and red wine ragu

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
RecipeTin Eats’ creamy tomato sausage pasta.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ creamy tomato sausage pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats
Creamy pasta with sausage.
EASY

Pasta alla Norcina (creamy pasta with sausage)

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Silky sausage ragu with creamy burrata cheese.
EASY

Cheat’s pork sausage ragu with burrata and casarecce

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
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This beef stew is great served with fresh pasta.
EASY

Beef and white bean stew with pasta and burrata

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Super-green pasta rotolo.
EASY

Super green pasta rotolo

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Pappardelle with white pork ragu, sage and lemon.

Pappardelle with white pork ragu, sage and lemon

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
RecipeTin Eats’ ricotta gnocchi with creamy mushroom sauce.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ easy, creamy ricotta gnocchi

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Slightly crispy four-cheese pasta.
EASY

Quattro formaggi pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s beef short-rib ragu.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s beef short-rib ragu

  • 2 hrs +
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Pasta with cauli-bol and crispy capers.

Roast cauliflower bolognese

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
The optional addition of browned butter and sage results in a nutty flavour.

Roast pumpkin orzo ‘risotto’ with brown butter and sage

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
An easy midweek pasta dish that riffs on the flavours of Turkish manti dumplings.
EASY

Manti-style lamb pasta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook