What to make for dinner with pasta
Pasta is the dinner most of us can make without thinking, which is why it ends up the same every week. Let us pick one different pasta dinner and show you the video.
We have 122 pasta dinners to pick from, all cooking videos with captions, which makes a written recipe much more likely to work.
Pasta dinners people cook
A few of the pasta videos we pick from, each from a YouTube creator. Tap one to watch it, or use the button above to have one picked for you.
- White Sauce Pasta | Creamy & Cheesy White Sauce Pasta | Kanak's Kitchen · Kanak's Kitchen · 9:31
- Indian Style Macaroni Pasta | Such an Easy and Tasty Pasta | Masala Macaroni | Pasta Recipe | Kabita · Kabita's Kitchen · 5:54
- How To Make Creamy Shrimp Alfredo Pasta - 30 Minute Meal · Natashas Kitchen · 4:12
- Macaroni and Cheese Recipe | How to Make Mac and Cheese · The Cooking Foodie · 3:20
- Pasta Recipe in Tamil | How to make Pasta in Tamil | Spicy Masala Vegetable Pasta - Indian Style · Madras Samayal · 3:29
- Easy 3-Ingredient Mac and Cheese Recipe (One Pot) · The Cooking Foodie · 2:45
- Simple Pastas: Spaghetti with Garlic and Oil · Lidia Bastianich · 5:22
- ULTIMATE MAC & CHEESE | Jamie Oliver · Jamie Oliver · 4:53
Tips for cooking with pasta
- Salt the pasta water well; it is the only chance to season the pasta itself.
- Save a mug of the starchy cooking water before draining. A splash turns a thick sauce silky.
- Most shapes swap for each other, so use whatever is in the cupboard.
How it works
Tap the button and we pick one pasta dinner at random from our cooking videos. Not feeling it? Pick again; you will not see the same video twice this visit. Happy with it? Watch it on YouTube, or tap "Get the written recipe" and sign in with Google to get the ingredients and steps written out.
Questions about pasta dinners
Can I use a different pasta shape?
Nearly always. Check the packet cooking time, as it varies by shape, and keep long pasta for smooth sauces and short shapes for chunky ones.
Can I pick a vegan or vegetarian pasta dinner?
Yes. Choose "Vegetarian", "Vegan" or "Vegetarian + eggs" and we only pick from videos chosen for that diet. Glance at the recipe too, as a title can miss an ingredient like parmesan.
Do these include gnocchi and lasagne?
Yes. We count gnocchi, lasagne and mac and cheese as pasta dinners, along with spaghetti, penne and the other shapes.
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No ingredient in mind?
Let the dinner decider choose from your diet, time and the kind of food you fancy. Already found a video? Paste it into the YouTube to recipe converter.