#pasta
22 viral recipes tagged #pasta.
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Cacio e pepe — macarrão romano com pecorino e pimenta
Three ingredients, four minutes, every variable on a knife edge. Tonnarelli, pecorino romano, and an obscene amount of fresh black pepper.
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Lasanha à bolonhesa
The real Bolognese lasagne: layers of fresh egg pasta (ideally green spinach sheets), a long-simmered ragù, silky béchamel, and parmesan, baked until the edges crisp and the centre is molten. A Sunday institution from Emilia-Romagna.
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Spaghetti alla Carbonara — massa romana com ovo e guanciale
The real Roman carbonara: no cream, ever. Just crisp guanciale, egg yolks, Pecorino Romano and a storm of black pepper, emulsified with starchy pasta water into a glossy, clinging sauce. Four ingredients, perfect technique — the whole dish lives or dies on not scrambling the eggs.
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Bucatini all'Amatriciana — massa romana de tomate e guanciale
One of Rome's four great pastas: crisp guanciale and a quick tomato sauce sharpened with peperoncino and finished with sharp Pecorino Romano. Born in the town of Amatrice, it's bold, porky and just-spicy — proof that four or five great ingredients beat a long list. Traditionally tossed with bucatini, the thick hollow spaghetti that catches the sauce.
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Maultaschen — pastéis de massa recheados suábios
Swabia's beloved 'pasta pockets': large squares of fresh pasta wrapped around a savoury filling of minced meat, spinach, soaked bread and onion. Legend says monks hid meat inside the dough to eat it discreetly during Lent — hence the nickname 'Herrgottsbscheißerle' (little God-foolers). Served floating in beef broth, or pan-fried in ribbons with egg and onions.
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Käsespätzle — espätzle alemão com queijo
Germany's homey answer to mac and cheese: little free-form egg noodles scraped fresh into boiling water, then layered with mountain cheese until molten and crowned with a heap of deeply caramelised onions. Spätzle hails from Swabia, and Käsespätzle is its most comforting form — soft, eggy, cheesy and rich, the kind of Alpine soul food that turns a cold night around.
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Pastitsio — macarrão grego assado com béchamel
Greece's grand baked pasta — sometimes called Greek lasagna: long tubes of pasta layered with a cinnamon- and clove-scented beef-and-tomato ragù, blanketed in a thick, creamy béchamel and baked until the top is golden and set into neat, sliceable squares. Pastitsio is a centrepiece of Sunday lunches, feasts and tavernas, beloved for its comforting layers and the warm, sweet-spiced aroma that sets it apart from Italian bakes. It takes a little time to build its three layers, but the reward is a generous, golden tray that slices like a dream and feeds a crowd.
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Ziti Gratinado
Tubes of ziti bound in a long-simmered tomato sauce, layered with ricotta, mozzarella, and Parmesan, then baked until the edges char and the center pulls in long, molten strands. This is the Sunday-supper version: saucy, deeply seasoned, and built to feed a crowd or a lasagna-shaped hole in your week.
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Macarrão com queijo
A creamy baked macaroni and cheese built on a proper roux and three cheeses, finished with a buttered panko crust that shatters over a molten, deeply savory interior. This is the tested-three-times version that stays silky instead of grainy or greasy.
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Fettuccine Alfredo
The real Roman original: a glossy, three-ingredient emulsion of butter, young Parmigiano-Reggiano, and starchy pasta water tossed through fresh egg fettuccine — no cream anywhere. Done right it's silk that clings to every strand, richer-tasting than any cream sauce and ready in the time it takes the pasta to cook.
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Espaguete Aglio e Olio
Spaghetti aglio e olio is Naples' answer to a five-ingredient midnight supper: al dente spaghetti tossed in warm, garlic-infused olive oil sparked with chili and fresh parsley. Slowly cooking sliced garlic until pale gold keeps it sweet rather than bitter, while a splash of starchy pasta water emulsifies the oil into a glossy sauce that clings to every strand. It's fast, pantry-friendly, and endlessly satisfying.
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Orzo com parmesão e alho
This Parmesan garlic orzo is a one-pan Italian side that cooks risotto-style: the little rice-shaped pasta is toasted in butter until nutty, then simmered in garlicky broth so each grain stays tender and separate in a glossy, creamy sauce. Finished off the heat with a generous handful of Parmesan and an optional splash of cream, it lands somewhere between a pilaf and a risotto — rich, savory, and ready in about half an hour.
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Manicotti Assado
Baked manicotti is the ultimate Italian-American comfort dish: wide pasta tubes packed with a creamy, herb-flecked ricotta-and-mozzarella filling, blanketed in marinara, and baked until the top is bubbling and golden. Whole-milk ricotta and a quick homemade sauce keep the filling rich but never watery, while a foil-then-uncovered bake gives you tender pasta with a browned, cheesy crown. It's a make-ahead-friendly crowd-pleaser that comes together with pantry staples.
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Salada de Macarrão à Italiana
This is a big, colorful bowl of spiral pasta tossed with crisp vegetables, cubes of fresh mozzarella and salami, and a bright, garlicky red-wine-vinegar Italian dressing. Every bite is tangy and herby with a little chew from the pasta and a briny pop from olives and pepperoncini. Making the dressing from scratch and letting the salad chill lets the pasta drink in the flavor, so it tastes seasoned all the way through instead of bland in the middle.
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Espaguete ao molho de carne
A weeknight-friendly pot of spaghetti in a rich, slow-simmered tomato and ground beef sauce that clings to every strand. Browning the beef until it forms deep, savory bits and toasting the tomato paste before the tomatoes go in builds a sauce that tastes long-cooked in well under an hour. It is cozy, garlicky, and just tangy enough, with fresh basil and Parmesan to finish.
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Macarrão na Manteiga
Buttered noodles are tender wide egg noodles tossed with real butter until every strand turns glossy and rich. The trick is a splash of starchy pasta water whisked into the melting butter, which emulsifies into a light, clingy sauce instead of a greasy slick. It comes together in about 20 minutes and is comforting enough to eat on its own or serve under almost anything saucy.
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Rigatoni al Segreto (rigatoni ao molho secreto)
Rigatoni al Segreto is the famous "secret sauce" pasta from New York's old-school Italian dining rooms: a simple tomato-basil sauce blended silky, then finished off the heat with cold butter and a flurry of Parmigiano-Reggiano. The secret is technique, not exotic ingredients — emulsifying butter into the smooth sauce turns it glossy, rich, and almost creamy without any cream. Finishing the rigatoni in the pan lets the wide tubes drink up the sauce and trap it inside, so every bite is coated in and out.
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Espaguete all'assassina (espaguete do assassino)
Spaghetti all'assassina is Bari's famously "burnt" pasta: raw spaghetti seared directly in a garlicky, chili-laced tomato base, then fed ladles of hot tomato broth like a risotto. Because the noodles never see a pot of boiling water, their starch toasts and caramelizes against the skillet, giving you strands that are chewy in the middle and crackling, smoky, and mahogany-charred at the edges. It is fiery, a little dramatic, and unlike any other tomato pasta you have made.
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Espaguete à Nerano (espaguete com abobrinha)
Spaghetti alla Nerano is the Amalfi Coast dish that turns a pile of humble zucchini into a silky, deeply savory pasta — the one that became famous as the "stanley tucci zucchini pasta" after his Searching for Italy episode. Thin zucchini coins are fried until golden and jammy, rested so their flavor concentrates, then melted into starchy pasta water with Provolone del Monaco, butter, and basil. The vigorous off-heat toss (mantecatura) is what binds oil, cheese, and starch into a glossy cream with no actual cream in sight.
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Orecchiette de uma panela só
Little ear-shaped orecchiette simmer right in the skillet with browned Italian sausage and chicken broth, so the pasta releases its starch into the pan and builds its own silky, clingy sauce — no separate pot, no draining. Peppery arugula wilts in at the end, and a handful of Parmesan plus a squeeze of lemon pulls the whole thing into a glossy, savory weeknight dinner in about 40 minutes.
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Linguine ao vôngole
A briny, garlicky white clam sauce that comes together in the time it takes the linguine to boil, using pantry-friendly canned clams plus bottled clam juice for real depth. The trick is finishing the pasta in the simmering sauce so the starch pulls everything into a glossy coating, then adding the clams off the heat at the very end so they stay tender instead of turning rubbery. It tastes like a coastal trattoria dinner from a weeknight pantry.
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Ravióli caseiro aos quatro queijos
Silky egg-pasta pillows stuffed with a creamy blend of ricotta, mozzarella, Parmigiano-Reggiano, and Gorgonzola, finished in sage-scented butter. Draining the ricotta and binding the filling with a single yolk keeps it lush but firm, so the ravioli seal cleanly and never turn watery. Rolling the dough thin enough to read a headline through it gives you tender pasta that cooks in under four minutes.
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