15 olive oil pasta sauce recipes

This quick and easy salad is very flexible, you can put whatever your favourite vegetables in, and this miso dressing almost goes well with all the veggies.

Crisp vegetable salad with snow peas, cherry tomatoes, and carrots tossed in a savory miso-soy dressing with ginger and garlic. Fresh, crunchy, and ready in 15 minutes.

Stracci pasta tossed with eight fresh herbs, extra-virgin olive oil, Romano cheese, and chopped tomatoes. An Italian herb pasta where the uncooked herb sauce is the star.

Pasta alla checca, a Roman no-cook summer pasta sauce of ripe tomatoes, kalamata olives, capers, fresh basil, and garlic steeped in olive oil for hours. No stove needed for the sauce.

Spinach spaghetti with flounder, fresh tomatoes, garlic, basil, and white wine in a light olive oil sauce. An elegant Italian-style fish pasta ready in 30 minutes.

Tuna lemon and caper pasta tossed with Italian oil-packed tuna, extra-virgin olive oil, garlic, parsley, and lemon zest. A no-cook pantry sauce ready while the pasta boils.

White clam sauce made in the microwave with olive oil, garlic, canned clams, parsley, and oregano. A 15-minute pantry-friendly pasta sauce for spaghetti.

Grilled chicken breasts marinated in olive oil, garlic, lemon, and herbs, then sliced thin over pasta with herbed tomato sauce. A Mediterranean-style summer pasta dinner.

Microwave Italian tomato sauce with olive oil, garlic, basil, and oregano, ready in under 10 minutes. No stirring, no stovetop. A quick base sauce for pasta, pizza, or chicken Parmesan.

Creamy walnut sauce with garlic, Parmesan, butter and olive oil tossed with egg tagliarini. A rustic Italian pasta ready in 30 minutes flat.

Fusilli with vegetables: a fresh Italian pasta sauce of zucchini, plum tomatoes, garlic, shallots, and herbs simmered in olive oil. Summer garden produce tossed with corkscrew pasta and a shower of parmesan.

Italian walnut-garlic sauce with toasted walnuts, parsley, bread, and olive oil blended into thick paste: traditional Ligurian agliata tossed with your favorite pasta.

Penne with cauliflower, fresh roma tomatoes, and basil tossed in a no-cook olive oil sauce with sun-dried tomatoes and garlic. A 25-minute one-pot summer pasta finished with Parmesan.

Warm tomato vinaigrette with passata, herbed white wine vinegar, olive oil, and fresh parsley. A 4-ingredient sauce for grilled fish, chicken, pasta, or salads.

Portuguese piri-piri sauce: hot chili peppers, bay leaf, and lemon zest infused in olive oil. A 24-hour shake-and-wait condiment that keeps indefinitely. Drizzle on grilled chicken, fish, or pasta.