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Use the ripest tomato you can find, a little overripe is even better.

Six summer tomato pasta sauces to cook this weekend

From speedy to slow-roasted, these pasta dishes celebrate sweet in-season tomatoes.

EASY

Sicilian-style pasta with swordfish, cherry tomatoes, mint and pistachios

This Italian combination will leave you with all the wonderful, relaxed feelings of a late-summer holiday.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez

Dinner is sorted with this one tin everyone has in their pantry

Put that can of tomatoes to delicious good work in a vibrant pasta, lamb curry, vegie tagine or cheat’s chicken pomodoro.

  • Samuel Goldsmith
Danielle Alvarez’s Italian wedding soup.
EASY

This Italian wedding soup is a marriage of flavours, and you’ll be making it on repeat

This hearty meatball and pasta soup is sure to be love at first spoonful.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
EASY

Karen Martini’s one-tray roasted tomato, red capsicum and chilli sauce for pasta

Roasting enhances and deepens the flavour, which you can’t replicate by cooking the ingredients in a pot.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
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Spaghettini, with the golden glow of saffron, and prawns.
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Go for gold: Why you need this new old restaurant’s sunny pasta dish in your life

Mister Bianco 2.0’s saffron spaghettini is like butter pasta from the kid’s menu, but for adults.

  • Besha Rodell
10-minute chilli, prawn and corn pasta.
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On the table in 10 minutes: This chilli, prawn and corn pasta is your new midweek favourite

Ready in a flash, this simple dish has “midweek favourite” written all over it.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Bar Infinita is a neighbourhood trattoria in a trattoria-less neighbourhood.
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‘Wood-fired Italian joint with oomph’: Why locals are flocking to this Gordon trattoria

Helmed by an ex-Ormeggio at The Spit and Firedoor chef, Bar Infinita has quickly become Gordon’s destination diner.

  • Terry Durack
Spaghetti bolognese you are good, too good.

10 delicious dinners that pack in the veg (yet picky eaters will love)

Things that make vegies taste better: cheese, frying them, hiding them under sauce, swirling them into pasta, and these recipes.

Spaghetti bolognese is de Minaur’s go-to order at Thirty Eight Chairs restaurant in South Yarra.

‘I’m a big carb man’: The pasta dish Alex de Minaur loves to smash (and where he eats it in Melbourne)

The top Australian tennis player’s parents met at an Italian restaurant, so it’s only natural he’s a “big carb man” with a love of Italian cuisine.

  • Jane Rocca