[Photographs: Vicky Wasik] This is how you make fettuccine Alfredo like the Romans. It’s an incredibly simple and quick dish with only a few key ingredients: pasta, butter, and cheese. The result is a pasta that’s impressively elegant and rich, and loaded with the flavors of sweet, young Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and golden butterfat. The key is to use the starchy […]

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Photograph: Sho Spaeth It’s tempting to claim that this recipe for clam sauce, made with canned clams, is a product of coronavirus. It would be easy to frame it as a nimble pivot on the part of our recipe team—particularly a specific, man-of-the-people recipe team member (me)—to address the needs of a readership that finds itself increasingly relying on dried […]

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[Photo: Nick Kindelsperger] Just when I thought I had tried every possible combination of pasta, I come across some new and delicious variation. This recipe, which can be found in Zarela’s Veracruz, gets its green color not from some kind of pesto, but from poblano chiles. Though the Mexican variation might seem strange at first, I was surprised on recent […]

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Total time: 30 minutes Serves:4 Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil454g essential Waitrose British Beef Mince (typically 10% fat)1 onion, chopped400g can essential Waitrose Chopped Tomatoes1 tbsp essential Waitrose Tomato Purée100ml beef stock 500g pack fresh essential Waitrose Tagliatelle Shavings from 175g pack essential Waitrose Parmigiano Reggiano (optional)  Method 1. Warm the oil in a large non-stick saucepan then fry the […]

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Total time: Ready in 15 minutes Ingredients 300g essential Waitrose Penne pasta350g tub essential Waitrose Cheese Sauce195g can essential Waitrose Sweetcorn, drained100g essential Waitrose Frozen Garden Peas, defrosted2 x 200g cans essential Waitrose Tuna Steak in Spring Water, drained1 tbsp essential Waitrose Tomato Purée50g essential Waitrose Mild & Creamy Cheddar Cheese, grated Method 1. Boil the pasta in water for […]

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Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 3 minutes Total time: 13 minutes Serves:4 Ingredients 125g organic sun-ripened tomatoes in oil, from the deli counter 100g Pepperdew Sweet Piquante Peppers, rinsed and drained 2 tbsp salted capers, rinsed 2 garlic cloves, chopped 100ml extra virgin olive oil ½ x 25g pack fresh basil, torn into pieces 500g bag Waitrose Fresh Pasta […]

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