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With all the amazing in-season vegetables like tomatoes, zucchini, squash and corn, this list of the best summer pasta recipes includes easy dishes for lunch and dinner.
Summer is the height of tomato season, so pasta is a pretty obvious choice to showcase this star ingredient. But there’s more to seasonal pastas than just tomatoes. Grilled and roasted vegetables including corn, zucchini and eggplant deserve some attention when paired with noodles.
Vegetarian and vegan pasta dishes are always great solutions for quick weeknight meals. With so many veggies at their peak, you really can’t go wrong with shapes like spaghetti, orzo, fusilli and even gnocchi.
Summer Pasta Recipes
Burst Tomato Pasta
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With a couple pints of tomatoes, garlic and olive oil, you can whip up burst tomato pasta in 15 minutes. Try any noodle shape from fusilli to spaghetti.
Roasting the veggies side-by-side on a single sheet pan makes this 30-minute tomato zucchini orzo a simple recipe that just needs a few spoonfuls of pesto stirred in to finish it.
This cherry tomato eggplant pasta is an easy, filling dinner that has lots of flavor with a kick of spice and heat. The pasta goes straight from a pot into the skillet with the veggies, chilies, garlic and olive oil.
With roasted corn and tomatoes, this sweet corn pesto pasta is a vegetarian pasta that will have you dreaming about more twists on the usual pesto. That's because there is no basil in the pesto and it also has walnuts.
Roma tomatoes are perfect for this easy homemade fresh tomato sauce. With only 10 ingredients, toss it with your favorite pasta shape or even spread it on pizza.
The vinaigrette for this roasted tomato pesto pasta salad uses leftover tomato juices from the baking dish along with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
With a lovely mix of fruit and veggies, this easy strawberry cucumber pasta salad has arugula, almonds, blue cheese and balsamic vinaigrette tossed with bow tie pasta.
Ready in 30 minutes, this cherry tomato sheet pan gnocchi uses a mix of dried spices to flavor this quick and easy one-pan meal. Top it with shaved Parmesan and basil.
