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23 Savory Italian Pasta Recipes for All Seasons

By Alexis McCowan and Food & Wine Updated July 19, 2021
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Whether you're twirling slim linguine around your fork or taking in the aroma of fresh cracked pepper over a bed of perfectly salted noodles, you can't deny the comfort that pasta can bring. Food & Wine has an incredible collection of irresistible Italian pasta recipes and we have picked some of our favorites including ricotta-filled pasta and classic Bolognese. Gather your oregano, basil and thyme and let's get cooking.

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Bucatini Carbonara

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Italian carbonara is famously rich, combining pancetta or guanciale (cured pork jowl), egg yolks and cheese. At Holeman and Finch, Linton Hopkins adds his own Southern accent to the dish with house-cured pork and local eggs.

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Bucatini all'Amatriciana with Parmigiano

Bucatini all’Amatriciana with Parmigiano
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Chef Jenn Louis makes this version of pasta all'amatriciana with just a few flavor-packed ingredients. She likes to use traditional guanciale (cured pork jowl), which has a robust pork flavor. The sauce is also delicious with milder pancetta.

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Spaghetti with Clams and Garlic

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This simple dish is packed with garlic and a few dashes of crushed red pepper. If you prefer, shell the clams before tossing them with their juices in the pasta.

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Pappardelle with Lamb Ragù

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Andrew Carmellini serves fresh pappardelle with a ragù of house-ground lamb shoulder cooked in lamb stock. He finishes the dish with fresh ricotta and chopped mint. To simplify the recipe, use store-bought pappardelle, ground lamb and chicken stock, then top the dish with fresh ricotta and mint.

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Three-Pepper Cacio e Pepe

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A trio of peppercorns gives this pasta a subtle, floral heat; if you like, spice it up, swapping the Szechuan pepper with a pinch of red pepper flake.

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Cavatelli with Sardinian Meat Sauce

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Pro tip: Frozen cavatelli is even better than dried. Since this shape is thick and doughy, the dried version tends to get overcooked on the outside before it's done inside. If you can't find cavatelli in the freezer section of your grocery store, a chunky dried pasta such as rigatoni will also be excellent here.

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Spinach-and-Ricotta Tortelli with Browned Butter

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The pasta for this tortelli (a larger version of tortellini) is extremely silky and supple, which makes it excellent with the creamy ricotta-and-spinach filling. If there's any dough left over, cut it into noodles, as Marco Canora does, then dry it and store it in bags in the refrigerator to have on hand for last-minute dinners.

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Ricotta Gnudi with Chanterelles

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These tender gnudi, adapted from Nancy Silverton's Mozza Cookbook, are delicious with buttery chanterelles.

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Rigatoni with Veal Bolognese and Butternut Squash

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Chef Andrew Zimmern makes his velvety pasta sauce—a delectable Italian combination of sweet squash and veal—even more luscious with a touch of cream.

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All'Amatriciana with Extra Umami

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Anchovies please! Chef Sarah Grueneberg makes her amatriciana sauce with anchovies, so it's extra-savory.

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Hearty Lamb Ragù with Rigatoni

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It doesn't get more hearty than this pasta dish with lamb ragù. A soft, generous Montepulciano d'Abruzzo will combine well with the tangy lamb and caramelized carrots.

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Spaghetti with Bottarga and Almond Bread Crumbs

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When Piero traveled to the Italian island of Pantelleria, he discovered pasta and capers topped with crushed toasted almonds and bread crumbs. "I thought the almond bread crumbs would be really cool to add to a bottarga dish," he says. Bottarga is cured roe from either mullet (which is slightly waxy and mildly fishy) or tuna (which has a pronounced anchovy flavor); it's sold at specialty food stores.

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Lasagna Puttanesca

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Puttanesca is a classic southern Italian pasta sauce made with tomatoes, capers, and olives. Here, it lends a ton of flavor to a hearty—but not heavy—eggplant lasagna layered with ricotta and mozzarella.

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Beef Brasato with Pappardelle and Mint

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At Incanto, chef Chris Cosentino braises beef shank and oxtail in red wine to make a brasato he serves with house-made mint pappardelle. Instead of oxtail, the dish uses just beef shank. Fresh pappardelle from a store replaces the house-made kind.

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Spaghetti with Fresh Soppressata

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One of the most popular cured meats on restaurant charcuterie boards, soppressata is a hard salami from southern Italy. Andrew Carmellini's family grinds their own meat to make it, but much easier is buying Italian sausages and removing their casings. To give the fresh soppressata extra spice, use hot sausages instead of sweet ones, or increase the amount of crushed red pepper.

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Ricotta-Filled Handkerchief Pasta with Pesto and Marinara

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Known in Italian as mandilli, this stuffed dish, from chef Tim Cushman of Manhattan's Covina, is crafted from sheets of pasta coated with pesto sauce, stuffed with ricotta and topped with tomato sauce. To save time, use store-bought pasta sheets.

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Pappardelle with Smoked Butter and Herbs

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In his gorgeous In.gredienti cookbook, Massimiliano Alajmo includes a dish called "pasta butter and smoke," made with smoked pasta and smoked butter and served with smoked hen broth. In this much-simplified version, the smoky flavor is all in the butter; it's mixed with cheese and chopped fresh herbs to make a rich sauce for silky pappardelle.

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Pappardelle with White Bolognese

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Chef and restaurateur Andrew Carmellini simmers ground veal and pork in white wine and half-and-half, creating a velvety cream sauce to toss with pappardelle.

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Pasta with Robiola and Truffles

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This indulgent first course marries three of Italy's best ingredients: egg pasta, winter truffles and Robiola Rocchetta, a creamy cheese from northern Italy, which forms the base for an incredibly rich sauce.

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Trofie Pasta with Cockles, Chiles and Black Bean Sauce

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Ken Vedrinski discovered the hand-coiled pasta called trofie and the super-minerally white-wine Vermentino while traveling in Liguria.

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Spaghetti with Anchovy Carbonara

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Chris Cosentino adds briny flavor to his pasta with cured tuna heart. He shaves it on right before serving. This simplified recipe calls for anchovies, rather than the tuna heart Cosentino uses. Egg yolks form a silky sauce.

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Potato Gnocchi with Garlic Butter, Mushrooms and Snails

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At The Modern in New York City, chef Gabriel Kreuther makes gnocchi using fromage blanc, a fresh French cheese that creates a light texture and lovely tang; sour cream is a fine replacement. Snails add an earthy flavor to the dish (though the recipe is also delicious without them).

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Spinach-and-Prosciutto Ravioli

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As a stuffing for her supple ravioli, Missy Robbins, chef at Lilia in Brooklyn, mixes spinach and prosciutto with two cheeses. The bright acidity and bubbles of a Franciacorta like Ronco Calino Brut amplify the nutty brown butter notes in the pasta.

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    1 of 23 Bucatini Carbonara
    2 of 23 Bucatini all'Amatriciana with Parmigiano
    3 of 23 Spaghetti with Clams and Garlic
    4 of 23 Pappardelle with Lamb Ragù
    5 of 23 Three-Pepper Cacio e Pepe
    6 of 23 Cavatelli with Sardinian Meat Sauce
    7 of 23 Spinach-and-Ricotta Tortelli with Browned Butter
    8 of 23 Ricotta Gnudi with Chanterelles
    9 of 23 Rigatoni with Veal Bolognese and Butternut Squash
    10 of 23 All'Amatriciana with Extra Umami
    11 of 23 Hearty Lamb Ragù with Rigatoni
    12 of 23 Spaghetti with Bottarga and Almond Bread Crumbs
    13 of 23 Lasagna Puttanesca
    14 of 23 Beef Brasato with Pappardelle and Mint
    15 of 23 Spaghetti with Fresh Soppressata
    16 of 23 Ricotta-Filled Handkerchief Pasta with Pesto and Marinara
    17 of 23 Pappardelle with Smoked Butter and Herbs
    18 of 23 Pappardelle with White Bolognese
    19 of 23 Pasta with Robiola and Truffles
    20 of 23 Trofie Pasta with Cockles, Chiles and Black Bean Sauce
    21 of 23 Spaghetti with Anchovy Carbonara
    22 of 23 Potato Gnocchi with Garlic Butter, Mushrooms and Snails
    23 of 23 Spinach-and-Prosciutto Ravioli

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