7 Budget-friendly Pasta Recipes
Life is full of pasta-bilities… like budget-friendly pasta meals that don’t break the bank! Here’s a secret: it is tortellini possible to change up your pasta dinners so they are still delicious and different, without spending too much money.
Sausage Manicotti
With this recipe, all you need to combine for the filling is sausage and cottage cheese. Manicotti noodles are hollow tubes that can be placed straight into your cooking dish after you add a filling. After filling the noodles, assemble your dish and pop it in the oven.
It’s that easy, and it definitely should claim a spot in your dinner rotation.
Spinach Alfredo Pasta
According to this recipe, you can make it for less than $7! And that’s if you want to make the alfredo sauce from scratch. If that’s too much effort on a busy night of life, you can pick up a can these days for about $1. You can also customize it to what you want. If you aren’t a fan of penne noodles, switch it out for fettuccine or whatever meets your palate.
This is an easy, cheap, and healthy recipe for your meal prep.
Cheese Pizza Tortellini
Talk about a tortellini easy pasta recipe! Not only are half the ingredients on this recipe optional, but you can make it your own by adding your favorite pizza toppings like pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, etc. Plus, if you get the frozen tortellini, you can skip the second step (pre-cooking the pasta) if you just add a little liquid.
If pizza night has gotten too pricey, make a pasta-based pizza!
Macaroni Salad
Macaroni salad is a potluck staple that can be turned into a weeknight dinner. Or, it can be a great side to whatever else you have planned during the week. According to the recipe, you can have a batch of macaroni salad ready in just five steps and in 25 minutes.
Fiesta Ravioli
If you thought the macaroni salad was easy, this fiesta ravioli only has two steps. Simply cook the noodles and combine the fiesta sauce. It yields 6 servings and only takes 20 minutes to cook. If you are looking for an easy meal that is different from classic ravioli, look no further!
Mac & Cheese
Not feeling a macaroni salad? How about classic macaroni? Classic macaroni is cheap, easy, and delicious! Lately, there have even been trends of combining macaroni with various proteins, like chicken or pulled pork, to make it even more hearty.
Spaghetti
Spaghetti options are endless! You can take this classic dish and make it as cheap or as exciting as you want:
- Classic spaghetti only involves spaghetti noodles and classic spaghetti sauce
- Mexighetti is one part queso and two parts spaghetti sauce – if you are looking for a cheesy, creamy (and cheap!) take on spaghetti.
- Meat sauce spaghetti is an easy way to make spaghetti a bit more filling by simply adding ground beef or turkey.
Don’t get upsetti spaghetti if you didn’t see something you didn’t like. Pasta is versatile. From the noodles to the sauce to the cheese or protein, there are unlimited pasta-bilities!