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Weeknight Quick

For the days when dinner has to happen and the brain is empty. Three pots maximum, ingredients you probably already have.

10 recipes

47 min · serves 4

Hearty Bean & Pasta Soup

Pantry-driven, vegetable-loaded, soul-warming — a thick bean and pasta soup using Cibo di Italia Whole Wheat Macaroni. Land it on the iftar table or pack it for a working-from-home lunch. Tastes even better on day two.

38 min · serves 4

Chickpea & Tomato Pasta Stew

Halfway between a pasta and a stew — Cibo di Italia Conchiglie Rigate scoops up tender chickpeas and a smoky tomato broth. A pantry-friendly dinner that lands warmly on the Ramadan iftar table or any weeknight.

22 min · serves 4

Light Pesto Penne

A lightened-up pesto that swaps half the oil for hot pasta water, so it clings to the ridges without weighing dinner down. Cibo di Italia Penne Rigate is the right shape to catch every fleck of basil and pine nut.

17 min · serves 4

Lemon & Herb Whole Wheat Fusilli

A light, clean-tasting pasta that finishes in 20 minutes. Whole wheat fusilli holds its bite against a lemony herb dressing and salty parmesan. Bright, satisfying, and perfect for the hotter Dubai months.

15 min · serves 4

15-Minute Tomato Penne Rigate

The fastest honest pasta dinner you can put on the table. While the kettle boils, you make the sauce. By the time the penne is al dente, dinner is done. Designed for the Tuesday night where you got home five minutes ago.

26 min · serves 4

Easy Tuna & Olive Pasta Salad

A make-ahead lunch that travels well from kitchen to lunchbox to picnic mat. Cibo di Italia Fusilli grabs the lemony dressing, and the tuna, olives and capers do all the flavour work. Better after an hour in the fridge.

25 min · serves 4

Weeknight Conchiglie with Peas & Mint

Cibo di Italia Conchiglie Rigate are little ridged shells designed to catch peas, soft cheese and herbs. This is a 25-minute dinner that feels much more grown-up than the time it takes. Bright, green, comforting.

20 min · serves 4

One-Pan Garlic Fusilli with Greens

A back-pocket recipe for the nights you cannot face a pile of washing up. Everything cooks in one pan — pasta, greens, garlic and a glug of olive oil — and the fusilli twists hold onto the silky starchy sauce that forms as it cooks.

25 min · serves 4

Classic Tomato & Basil Macaroni

The recipe that taught most of us to cook. Tinned tomatoes simmered with garlic and olive oil, finished with torn basil, and tossed through Cibo di Italia Macaroni. Twenty minutes, one pan, and dinner on the family table.

30 min · serves 4

Creamy Mushroom Penne

A weeknight Dubai dinner that comes together in under 30 minutes. Mushrooms get golden in a hot pan, then a splash of cream and a handful of parmesan turn the pan sauce silky. The ridges on Cibo di Italia Penne Rigate grab every drop.