30 Angel Hair Pasta Recipes

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Angel hair pasta has a delicate and refined taste, but can be paired subtly with a number of delicious ingredients. This long, thin spaghetti shaped pasta tends to mix well with light ingredients, such as vegetables and seafood. Whether you love it as pasta with creamy sauce or salad with fresh ingredients, here are 30 angel hair pasta recipes you should try!

Pasta Dishes Using Angel Hair

Although angel hair pasta is similar to traditional spaghetti in shape and size, it is made with a much thinner and finer flour paste. Angel hair pasta's most notable feature is its thinness, which allows you to have a little fun while cooking with your angel hair pasta recipes!

Also known as Capelli d'Angelo, this delicate pasta can be used with a range of ingredients and sauces. It is most often enjoyed with creamy pasta dishes that don't overpower its delicate taste, such as pesto sauce or a primavera dish. It also complements light seafood flavors like shrimps, scallops or clams, and adds more texture to plain dishes such as meatballs, tomato and corn, or leeks with mushroom.

Here are angel hair pasta recipes that you can create as simple or as sophisticated as you want to be, with its thin strands absorbing and releasing flavors in every bite. 

1. Garlic Parmesan Pasta

Get a delicious meal on the table in about ten minutes with this Garlic Parmesan Pasta. You'll love this easy pasta cooked in a flavorful buttery cream sauce made with garlic, parmesan cheese, and parsley. This delicious pasta recipe is sure to be a hit with the whole family! 

2. Chicken Scampi

This 20-minute chicken scampi is SO easy to make but the flavors are sure to linger in your taste buds! It is a perfect balance of flavors: rich from the olive oil, butter, and lemon juice; bright with the parsley and garlic; and hot with the red pepper flakes.

3. Shrimp Scampi

These buttery noodles with juicy plump shrimp are ready in 15 minutes and they’re packed with flavor! Lemon adds a wonderful brightness to this dish, complementing the texture and flavor of shrimp. Cook the shrimp just enough so they don’t get tough. It’s a great recipe for the whole family! 

4. Pesto Chicken Skillet

Pesto Chicken Skillet brings together robust flavors and delicate pasta for a dinner you are going to love. Ready in 30 minutes, this creamy pasta recipe features parmesan, basil pesto, and perfectly browned chicken that turns ordinary angel hair pasta into a sophisticated dinner with plenty of flavors!

5. Roasted Red Pepper Sauce With Angel Hair

Summertime is the perfect time for this pasta dish. It’s colorful, flavorful, and quick to make. The roasted peppers give this easy recipe a smoky, earthy flavor. Finish with fresh basil as garnish. It can be a light entree or a side dish suitable for grilled chicken, salmon, or steak. 

6. Honey Lemon Chicken With Angel Hair Pasta

Lemon and honey are a heavenly taste pairing. The bright, tangy citrus flavors are a great pairing for the sweet honey. This fast and easy pasta dish, with angel hair pasta and tender chicken, is a great dinner for warmer weather. It’s ready in less than 20 minutes!

7. Roasted Tomato Pasta

Fresh ingredients of summer tomatoes and basil, baked with lots of garlic, then tossed with angel hair pasta, parmesan cheese, and parsley. This is a quick, easy way to jazz up plain angel hair pasta (aka thin spaghetti) for the family. It's light and fresh, but loaded with flavor.

8. Scallops With Angel Hair Pasta

Savor a meal that’s as easy to make as it is to eat, with this recipe. The delicate angel head pasta, pan-seared sea scallops and grape tomatoes are served over a bed of sautéed spinach and skimmed with a light, white wine butter sauce. It's elegant and a real crowd-pleaser. 

9. Angel Hair Pasta Salad

You're in for a real treat with this simple and quick Angel Hair Pasta Salad with Chili. The pasta cooks up in no time with chopped fresh chili, garlic, cilantro, and lemon juice, plus grated parmesan cheese. Perfect with any meal!

10. Chicken Caesar Pasta

Angel hair pasta, blackened chicken and Parmesan cheese are combined with Caesar dressing, lemon juice and capers in a creamy sauce. The key to making Chicken Caesar Pasta taste good is the right balance of flavors as well as amount and consistency of sauce.

11. Caprese Pasta Salad

This pasta—perfectly seasoned with caprese, fresh ingredients like mozzarella, tomatoes, basil and olive oil—can be ready in just 15 minutes! Let the pasta sit for a few minutes before you add the mozzarella. This way, it’ll soften without getting stringy.

12. Pasta Frittata Muffins

For breakfast, snacks or appetizers, these Pasta Frittata Muffins are sure to be a hit. They're a great way to use leftover thin spaghetti or angel hair pasta. But you can use any pasta you have in the kitchen. Bite-sized with a caramelized edge, these are the best little frittatas!

13. One Pot Creamy Angel Hair Pasta

This angel hair pasta is filled with flavor, creamy and savory. It is super-easy to make, and it's always a family favorite! Made with thin noodles, garlic, olive oil, parmesan cheese, and cream, it’s a perfect weeknight meal. Add shrimp or chicken for a hearty main course!

14. Angel Hair Pasta With Asparagus

Angel Hair Pasta with Asparagus and Lemon Cream Sauce is easy to make. It has a wonderful, complex flavor that combines the zest of lemon and fresh, mild earthy asparagus with delicate pasta. 

15. Angel Hair Pasta With Bacon And Shrimp

Here is a light, scrumptious pasta dish. It's elegant enough to serve to your guests, but simple enough that it's perfect for a weekday. With tons of bacon flavor, this pasta is loaded with bacon and shrimp – the shrimp is cooked in bacon grease, which adds even more bacon flavor!

16. Turkey Bolognese

This Turkey Bolognese Pasta is easy to make and it's crazy delicious! This meat sauce packs a flavor punch from ground turkey meat, onion, garlic, tomato sauce, and cilantro. Plus, its special ingredient is a complex, wood aged wine.

17. Garlic And Herb Angel Hair Pasta

Tender noodles coated in garlic, fresh herbs, olive oil, butter and parmesan cheese are topped with fresh tomatoes for a memorable side dish or lighter main course. Fresh ingredients and light angel hair pasta are what makes this easy recipe so good!

18. Angel Hair Primavera

When the summer sun is shining and it's too hot to move, there's nothing like a grilled vegetable salad to get you out of your slump. In Italian, primavera means spring, and this springtime dish celebrates light, fresh ingredients with roasted vegetables and angel hair pasta.

19. Brown Butter Tomato And Corn Pasta

Here’s a pasta dish that is ready in a flash, and uses only the freshest ingredients. It’s light, healthy, and full of flavor! The brown butter provides a rich, nutty flavor while the lemon zest brightens up the dish. A wonderful vegetarian dish that is perfect for summer!

20. Angel Hair With Chicken Meatballs

A family favorite and a perfect weeknight meal in just 20 minutes. Angel hair pasta, zesty tomatoes, chicken meatballs, and creamy feta cheese are tossed together in Italian dressing to create a light yet filling dish. Serve with garlic bread and a crisp salad.

21. Fra Diavolo

Unlike typical creamy and comforting pasta dishes, this Fra Diavolo is spicy and flavorful. This recipe for Fra Diavolo—which literally translates to Brother Devil—is a spicy tomato sauce with generous amounts of red pepper flakes and oregano. An excellent choice for a cold evening!

22. Roasted Red Pepper Angel Hair

This spicy and creamy pasta recipe blends the flavors of roasted red peppers, chipotle peppers and adobo sauce with angel hair pasta. The result is a pasta dish pleasingly full of complex flavors, a bit of spice, and a creamy sauce – all sauced over the thin spaghetti (angel hair pasta).

23. Cajun Angel Hair

If you want to keep things uncomplicated, why not make Cajun pasta? The recipe adds Parmesan and Cheddar cheeses, white wine and heavy cream to create the most rich, creamy sauce—this is one indulgent dish that is worth every bite!

24. Angel Hair Ramen

Angel Hair Ramen with Shiitake Mushrooms, Tofu, Baby Bok Choy, and Scallions is a delicious and highly slurpable noodle soup. It is easy to make and packed with vegetables and healthy ingredients. A tasty spin on a traditional Asian dish, it’s creamy and cheesy with a hint of the sea.

25. Angel Hair With Leeks And Mushrooms

A leek, mushroom and bacon pasta that is a breath of fresh air for such a simple and small dish. The delicacy of angel hair pasta can be augmented by the bold flavors of smoky bacon, earthy mushrooms, and mild, aromatic leeks.

26. Creamy Italian Chicken Pasta

A tasty, hearty dish that can be quickly cooked on a weeknight when you want something comforting and filling, this Creamy Italian Chicken Pasta has all the good stuff—chicken, tomatoes, spinach, olives and mushrooms—and it takes only 20 minutes to make. What more do you need?

27. Slow Cooker Pork Chops With Angel Hair

For a luscious meal, try these Slow Cooker Angel Pork Chops. The succulent pork chops mix deliciously with the creamy sauce of butter, cream cheese and Italian dressing. The white wine adds a unique flavor. Serve over angel hair pasta.

28. Angel Hair With Tomato Meat Sauce

An amazing, easy meat sauce made with Italian sausage. A hearty meal that loved by the whole family. This one makes great leftovers!

29. Noodle Soup

A vegan version of chicken noodle soup. Perfect for a cold day, made with angel hair pasta, veggies, and broth.

30. Angel Hair Salmon Alfredo

This seafood dish is sure to be a crowd pleaser. A creamy alfredo sauce served over angel hair pasta and salmon.

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