Noodles & Pasta Recipes

Noodle and pasta recipes — quick weeknight noodle dishes and baked pasta.

Crispy Noodle Salad

Air-frying seasoned farfalle turns pasta salad into a genuinely crunchy barbecue side. The cooked noodles bake at 180°C (350°F) for about 20 minutes until they crackle like chips, then land on cool cucumber, red onion and diced pickles with a garlicky yogurt-mayo dressing sharpened with lemon. Drying the drained pasta well matters: any clinging water steams the pieces instead of letting them brown. Shake the basket halfway through and pull the pasta when it looks deep golden and rattles dryly. Dress the salad at the table rather than ahead, because the pasta softens once coated.

45 min4 servings

EasyAsian

Peanut Butter Noodles

Single-serving peanut noodles from the pantry, with a sauce built on a hot-oil pour: you heat 50 ml of oil until it just starts to smoke, then tip it over the peanut butter, raw garlic, ginger, shallot, chili paste, sesame seeds and scallions so everything sizzles and toasts in seconds. That single step is why a cold-mixed sauce cannot match this bowl. Soy sauce and rice vinegar round out the sauce, and the noodles simply soak in boiled water while you work. If the sauce tightens up, a spoonful of the noodle water loosens it back to a glossy coat. Ten minutes, one serving, done.

10 min1 servings

EasyItalian

Oven-Baked Italian Tomato Noodles

This one-dish pasta bake skips the boiling pot entirely: dry noodles cook right in the tomato and marinara sauce, soaking up flavour instead of plain water as they soften. Everything goes into one baking dish: chopped onion, bell pepper, canned tomatoes, marinara, olive oil and Italian herbs, with a rinse of water from the empty cans to give the pasta the liquid it needs. Press the noodles under the sauce, cover with foil and bake at 180°C (350°F) for 20 minutes, then finish uncovered with mozzarella until the top is golden and bubbling. Dinner for four with about 10 minutes of prep.

40 min4 servings