35 healthy pasta recipes

Pasta can be healthy? Yes he can! Here's how to transform a pasta box into a healthy meal.


A pasta box is probably one of the easiest and cheaperpantry staples you can buy. But trying to throw together a recipe of pasta that fill and nutritious can feel intimidating! Thanks to our list of healthy pasta recipes, you can easily reach dinners (or lunches!) You can feel good to eat all week.

To stuff extra vegetables fornutrients in good healthprotein swaps, here's how to do your favoritecomfort food even more healthy.

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Ragu of beef pot

Crock pot beef ragu recipe with pappardelle pasta and shaved parmesan
Kiersten Hickman / Eat this, not that!

Sick of usual meat sauce and meatballs of the week? ToneItalian Sconstive a notch with this beef ragu recipe. Not only is it easy to do, but this recipe of loose dump and go is perfect for preparing and freeze!

Get our recipe forRagu of beef pot.

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Asian beef noodle soup

Asian beef noodle soup
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

TheSlow cooker soup Here it takes a tail of three, combining a rich ginger and a soy broth with pieces of fork-tread beef, an entanglement of spring noodles, and - for a fresh and raised note to flow with the dark and the dark. incubators - a stack of fresh bok choloy.

Get our recipe forAsian beef noodle soup.

3

Macaroni and Cheese with Jalapeños and Prosciutto

Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

This mac and spicy cheese are based on butter of béchamel, flour and milk - which helps cut calories in half. We add Jalapeños and Prosciutto for a certain spicy and smoke goodness; Do not hesitate to leave them if you are not a spice fan.

Get our recipe forMacaroni and Cheese with Jalapeños and Prosciutto.

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Baked ziti

Healthy baked ziti
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

Register your money and your Ticker - and eat our healthier baked Ziti version. You can easily do it at home and it does not weigh you. This is comfortable food at home to an end.

Get our recipe forBaked ziti.

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Spaghetti with spicy tomato sauce and bacon

Healthy spaghetti with spicy tomato sauce
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

The beauty of the dish is just a few bands ofBacon Infuse a whole pasta pot with a rich and fleshy aroma, cut perfectly by the soft tomato and heat of pepper flakes. No bonds of gras sausage, ground floorbeefOr punch size meatballs are needed in this spaghetti recipe.

Get our recipe forSpaghetti with spicy tomato sauce and bacon.

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Ravioli 3-cheese with cherry tomatoes

Vegetarian 3 cheese ravioli with cherry tomatoes
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

Here, in this recipe of ravioli, you get the depth and shade of creamy ricotta, mozzarella smoked and salty, Sharp Parmesan, plus a sauce that would taste all 510 calories.

Get our recipe forRavioli 3-cheese with cherry tomatoes.

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Fettuccine red pepper Alfredo

Healthy red pepper alfredo
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

This version of the Fettuccine Alfredo recipe starts with a béchamel sauce, then mix with roasted red peppers to make a lighter alfredo, brighter, better Alfredo-for a quarter of the calories.

Get our recipe forFettuccine red pepper Alfredo.

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Sesame noodles with chicken

Healthy sesame noodles with chicken
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

A fettuccine box is just as suitable for an Asian inspired meal as it is for aItalian meal. Think of this meal like a salad, with the noodles standing for lettuce. Add in some proteins and as many vegetables as you want, and throw all the package with a light but powerful vinaigrette, and you have it: it's the culmination of four millennia of noodle knowledge!

Get our recipe forSesame noodles with chicken.

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Gnocchi with peas and prosciutto

Healthy gnocchi with peas and prosciutto
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

Here we take the classic matching of Italian pea pasta and Prosciutto, replace the noodles with dumplings and throw a lot ofasparagus to complete the creation. You can make this richer gnocchi recipe with a drizzle of cream or a half or a half or a little butter, but this one is excellent.

Get our recipe forGnocchi with peas and prosciutto.

10

Bolognese Sauce Lower Calories

Pasta bolognese recipe on fork
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

This bolognais follows the same technique used for an authentic and velvety sauce, but submarines in Turkey for the calf and the skinny flood for the Fattier beef. You can serve this on dried spaghetti orFettuccineBut fresh pasta are really better.

Get our recipe forBolognese Sauce Lower Calories.

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Italian meat soup

Paleo meatball soup
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

Although it is light in calories, it's always a powerful goodness bowl with a slightly dressed salad, it's an incredible dinner for a week. Also perfect formeal planning As it will remain very frozen in the fridge. Double the recipe and you will be ready for the week!

Get our recipe forItalian meat soup.

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Linguine with clams

Paleo linguine with clams
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

The inimitable combination of the bivre noodles and slick noodles is one of our favorites in a classic linguine with a plate of clams, but the problem is that most versions are so shortclamsYou need tires and a dive tank to find them. Our bowl of linguine with clam recipe is clicny more than the pasta, which also gives it a tasty and healthier ratio.

Get our recipe forLinguine with clams.

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Chicken sausage lasagna

Low-calorie sausage lasagna
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

This version of the chicken lasagna recipe represents the best of both worlds, mixing the ringed comfort to the American version with the meat and the relative health of the Italian catch. Perfect for large dinners and for freezing. The only better thing as lasagna?Restover Lasagne.

Get our recipe forChicken sausage lasagna.

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14

Shrimp lo mein

Low-calorie shrimp lo mein
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

The noodle and rice dishes at the Wok-Frit restaurant tend to be heavy on starch and oil, with some chip vegetables in color color. Well, we are here to do our own level of level to take away at home! We prefer our long loine on the products, short on the oil and rich with the flavors that makeAsian cuisine One of the best in the world. Dig in this shrimp recipe lo mein!

Get our recipe forShrimp lo mein.

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Alfredo pasta loaded with chicken and vegetables

Healthy loaded alfredo with chicken and veggies
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

We have abandoned the cream and makes a Bechamel basic sauce with flour, milk, butter and parmesan in our version of a recipe from Alfredo Pasta. We have solved the other major gap of Alfredo pasta by adding chicken, broccoli, fungi and, good measure, sun-dried tomatoes.

Get our recipe forAlfredo pasta loaded with chicken and vegetables.

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Ravioli of butternut squash with brown sage butter

Vegetarian butternut ravioli with sage and brown butter
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

Wonton Wrappers may not always enter a box, but when you can make ravioli, it certainly counts as one of our healthy pasta recipes! Thisbutternut squash Ravioli is a whole vegetarian dish should be: healthy, exciting and super tasty.

Get our recipe forRavioli of butternut squash with brown sage butter.

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Soup of Italian sausages

Paleo italian sausage soup
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

You can load it full of vegetables, doubling the amount used below and finish with a Chunky minestrone, Sausage-Strewn.

Get our recipe forSoup of Italian sausages.

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Fra diavolo shrimp

Healthy shrimp fra diavolo
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

We turn to a little Favorite Italy: the spicy shrimp FRA diavolo, made from small crushed tomatoes, white wine and a pinch of red pepper flakes.

Get our recipe forFra diavolo shrimp.

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Gnocchi pesto with green beans and tomatoes

Vegetarian pesto gnocchi with green beans and tomatoes
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

When you make this pesto gnocchi, figure 2 tablespoons per plate - and discard healthy extras such as tomatoes and green beans to bring the substance and balance in the bowl.

Get our recipe forGnocchi pesto with green beans and tomatoes.

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Turkey Bolognese with fettuccine

Low-calorie bolognese fettuccine turkey
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

Before there were spaghetti and meatballs, before there was tomato sauce with chopped beef and Italian seasonings, before there were interaces of hamburger and pother bottles There was ragù, a slow cooled meat sauce which is more coordinated, more complex and, yes, more comforting than its American counterparts. And that's what we go back to this recipe from Bolognese Turkey.

Get our recipe forTurkey Bolognese with fettuccine.

21

Beef stroganoff

Paleo beef stroganoff
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

Yes, the Stroganoff beef counts as one of our healthy pasta recipes. Although the sour cream is normally stirred in the sauce at the last second, we tested this dish in different different ways and foundGreek yogurt tasted every bit for fewer calories. Just make sure to remove the heat from the heat before adding, because the high temperatures can cause a yogurt break, compromise the smooth and velvety sauce that you really want in this Stroganoff recipe of beef.

Get our recipe forBeef stroganoff.

22

Zucchini Carbonara with bacon

healthy zucchini carbonara
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

Lighten the dish, we added a good amount ofcourgette, which is cut into long thin ribbons to imitate the shape of pasta and help you reduce the overall quantity of noodles. Beyond the cutting calories, however, this adds a soft hazelnut to this classic for a healthy and copious upgrade.

Get our recipe forZucchini Carbonara with bacon.

23

Cheese macaronis

Healthy mac and cheese
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

Over the years, we have tested dozens of iterations of the classic to spray with peppers, garnished with bacon, tonic with non-fat cheese. However, we continue to return to this formula: a base of béchamel, lined with extra-sharp cheddar cheeses and finished with a little yogurt to give the sauce to the perfect texture. Are there any more decadent mac bowls? Absolutely-but not for less than 400 calories.

Get our recipe forCheese macaronis.

24

Meatballs Spaghetti and Turkey

healthy spaghetti meatballs
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

Traditional meatballs are made with a mixture of beef, pork and veal. Turkey, skinny and tender, replaces the last two in these meatballs, allowing you to earn major calories while providing simultaneously with your taste buds with Major Yum.

Get our recipe forMeatballs Spaghetti and Turkey.

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Fettuccine Alfredo

Healthy fettuccine alfredo
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

Fettuccine Alfredo may not seem like a dish that can appear on a list of healthy pasta recipes, but our Mendie version to differ. To mitigate the impact of Alfredo, we turn to our old friend Béchamel, who creates aThick and creamy sauce Without the calories of the thick cream and excess butter.

Get our recipe forFettuccine Alfredo.

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Pepperonata

bowl of pepperonata
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The pepperonata is spicy, tangy and sweet sliced ​​peppers. You can serve it with pasta, salads or sandwiches. This adds a beautiful pop of spices and flavor pretty much everything and everything he touches.

Get our recipe forPepperonata.

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Beef with slow cooker goulash

slow cooker beef goulash in a white serving dish
Jason Donnelly

All you have to do is combine all the ingredients and let the saving timesmooker Work his magic while you do what you need to do. It's so easy!

Get our recipe forBeef with slow cooker goulash.

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Crumpopic crumpses mac and cups of cheese

Crispy crumb topped mac and cheese cups
Waterbury Publications, Inc.

Sneak in a few extra vegetablesnutrients By exchanging regular macaronis with Veggie Elbow Macaroni! You can even sneak in additional greens in each cup to add an extra punch of vegetables in each bite.

Get our recipe forCrumpopic crumpses mac and cups of cheese.

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Squash Butternut Pasta Salad

Butternut squash pasta salad
Waterbury Publications, Inc.

If you are looking for easy,healthy recipesBut you are tired of lettuce salads, this squash butternut pasta salad recipe will be a game changer

Get our recipe forSquash Butternut Pasta Salad.

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Cover Taco Pasta

one skillet taco pasta with spoon, cotija cheese, and sliced avocado
Waterbury Publications, Inc.

Of course, traditionalPasta is great. But did you try Taco Pasta? ThisEasy recipeTake all the things you like about tacos seasonings, spices and yes, cheese and converts them into a pasta format. Taco Tuesday is about to take a new meaning.

Get our recipe forCover Taco Pasta.

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Thai pumpkin pad

Bowl of pumpkin pad thai with peanuts ready to be eaten
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Not only the sweetness of the pumpkin completes the global flavor profile, but it is a superfood that will add fibers and vitamin A to a bowl already in good health. It is also the ideal way to use this pumpkin puree that you have left to make a pumpkin tart or apumpkin cheesecake.

Get our recipe forThai pumpkin pad.

32

Orecchiette with broccoli rab

Healthy orecchiette broccoli rabe
Mitch Mandel and Thomas MacDonald

This classic combines a broccoli slightly bitter and peppery rab (or, if you do not find rabes,regular broccoli) And skinny sausage collapsed with orecchiette, small pasta spots in the shape of an ear that handle the sauce beautifully.

Get our recipe forOrecchiette with broccoli rab.

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Shrimp scampi with linguine pasta

Garlic shrimp scampi recipe with linguine on a marble counter with squeezed lemon
Kiersten Hickman / Eat this, not that!

Most shrimp scene dishes are made with dry white wine. However, however, we do not have a white opening bottle to cook, so you can easily make this recipe of healthy pasta without wine! You simply replace dry white wine for a vegetable broth instead. This will give this dish a beautiful salt finish that pairs well with shrimp.

Get our recipe forShrimp scampi with linguine pasta.

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Rotisserie chicken parm saucepan

chicken parm casserole
Gail Watson Photography

The genius to obtain an entire roast chicken is that it can be used in a multitude of different profiles and flavor dishes, it is like a blank fabric filled with protein. Especially when it comes to doing one of the easiest healthy pasta recipes ever - this PARM chicken saucepan!

Get our recipe forRotisserie chicken parm saucepan.

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Chicken chicken noodle soup

Crock pot chicken noodle soup with bread on a table.
Kiersten Hickman / Eat this, not that!

Nothing is worth a bowl with chicken noodle soup with a cold day, is not it? Especially if it can be cooked with minimal effort! This recipe is delectable with freshly baked bread (like a leaven with leaven) and a fresh and fresh garden salad with a little ItalianPad.

Get our recipe forChicken chicken noodle soup.

36

Copycat Olive Garden Pasta Fagioli

Two bowls of copycat Olive Garden pasta fagioli with parsley and parmesan cheese
Kiersten Hickman / Eat this, not that!

Although there are many variations to make a homemade Fagioli soup recipe, we decided to go directly to the source to see what was in the special recipe of Olive Garden. Depending on the menu of the Olive Garden website, the ingredients of their soup include "white and red beans, chopped beef, fresh tomatoes and tubetti pasta in a salt broth." So that's exactly what we did to do one of the easiest pasta recipes.

Get our recipe forCopycat Olive Garden Pasta Fagioli.

37

Italian pot meatballs

Crock pot Italian meatballs with spaghetti
Kiersten Hickman / Eat this, not that!

Can you ever fool yourself with a spaghetti dinner and meat? If you are looking for a meal to serve a crowd (or preparation for the meal of the week), throwing a large pot of Italian meatballs is one of the easiest stuff in commerce. Cook a box of pasta to flow!

Get our recipe forItalian pot meatballs.

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Pumpkin ravioli

pumpkin ravioli with pestp sauce
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This recipe is quite easy to do and requires only 35 minutes of your time before being able to dump on this delicious pasta tray.

Get our recipe forPumpkin ravioli.

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