Pasta recipes

If you're late to make dinner, try this scrumptious dish made with cream of mushroom soup.

Japanese noodle soup with shiitake mushrooms, snow peas, red pepper, and rice noodles in a hot sesame broth, finished with ginger, brown rice vinegar, and roasted cashews. A vegetarian, low-fat Asian soup ready in 45 minutes.

Quick chicken spaghetti with pasta sauce and vegetables in just 35 minutes. Only 5 ingredients make this a go-to weeknight dinner when time is tight.

Ribbons of spinach, carrots, and zucchini stack between lasagna noodles with a nutmeg-spiced cottage cheese sauce for a surprisingly rich vegetarian bake.

These may be served in a sandwich, as an appetizer or as a main dish with pasta and tomato sauce.

Eingemachtes Kalbsfleisch, traditional German veal in a creamy lemon-and-egg-yolk-thickened gravy. A classic Swabian comfort dish served over potato dumplings or pasta.

Authentic biscotti di Prato from Tuscany. Twice-baked Italian almond cookies with toasted almonds, a pinch of saffron, and the traditional pasta-board well method. Crisp, dunkable, and built to keep.

Hearty Italian spaghetti with ground beef, tomato sauce, tomato paste, black olives, and green peppers simmered 90 minutes. A slow-cooked Sunday sauce topped with Parmesan cheese.

New Orleans-style shrimp and fettuccine simmered in shrimp stock, white wine, and butter with mushrooms, tomatoes, and seafood seasoning. Finished with a swirl of butter for a rich, silky sauce.

Easy lasagna with jarred spaghetti sauce, cottage cheese instead of ricotta, and a simple meat layer. Weeknight-friendly with big shortcut flavor.

Pumpkin ravioli folds ricotta, pumpkin, and nutmeg into a tomato-tinted homemade pasta dough, then serves with warm pumpkin seed sauce. A fall dinner project with built-in wow factor.

Marinated Gulf shrimp with cellophane noodles: poached jumbo shrimp soaked in a lime, ginger, cilantro, and Szechuan peppercorn marinade, served cold over glass noodles with red cabbage and carrots.

One-skillet Spanish noodles with ground chicken, bell peppers, onions, crushed tomatoes, and a kick of chili sauce. Egg noodles cook right in the sauce for easy cleanup.

Hearty spaghetti sauce with ground beef, garlic, carrots, celery, and onion simmered in milk before the tomatoes go in. A Bolognese-inspired technique for a richer, smoother meat sauce.

Laksa: a rich, fragrant Southeast Asian noodle soup with coconut cream, fish, kaffir lime, lemongrass, and fresh chili over rice vermicelli. Layered spice and silky coconut in every spoonful.

Microwave spinach lasagna layered with cottage cheese, fresh spinach, mozzarella, and Parmesan in a herb-spiked tomato sauce. Vegetarian lasagna on the table in 70 minutes, no oven required.