There’s spaghetti lovers, and there’s linguine lovers. Which pasta is better? It depends on how much flavor you want in each bite of your meal. Spaghetti is a great option if you want less sauce to pasta ratio when enjoying your Sunday sauce, or pesto. If you want to enjoy a well-coated pasta, go with flatter pasta for flavorful linguine recipes. This flat pasta grabs up and retains more tomato sauces, as well as oil-based sauces (as long as you do NOT put oil in the pasta water when boiling it).

Let’s Talk Flavorful Linguine Recipes

Now, my daughter could eat an entire pot of linguine in clam sauce. White, or red, she’s down for both. Unfortunately, I can’t stomach clams. To me they look like….boogers. Seriously, I don’t know how she eats them. I always shake my head when I see people eat oysters. To me they look like giant snots. Who was the first person out there that was like “hey, this snot looks incredible, let’s eat it”? UGH.

Now, as for me, I like simpler but just as flavorful linguine recipes like garlic and oil, or a lemon garlic sauce. With these thoughts in mind, I’ve learned to create a few different linguine recipes over the years, because we love our pasta and it’s something everyone enjoys (even if I have to reserve plain pasta noodles for my son before saucing the rest for me and Little Miss).

Linguine with White Wine Clam Sauce

White clam sauce recipes can be found all over the internet, and everyone claims theirs is the best. Truth is, I wouldn’t know one from the other since I don’t like clams. However, a beautiful aspect of making this flat pasta dish at home means I can split the sauce BEFORE introducing clams into the mix. One pot has no clams for me, one pot has clams added to it for my daughter. When we don’t do fresh clams, we do canned ones, because she’s find with either one. Now, for me, I enjoy Laura in the Kitchen’s recipe because of the hot pepper flakes it calls for.

Linguine with Red Clam Sauce

There’s not a huge difference between white and red clam sauces. It’s just the addition of some tomato sauce, or crushed tomatoes. Check out The Life Jolie’s clam sauce. I think it’s one of the better and flavorful linguine recipes that you’ll thoroughly enjoy.

Shrimp Scampi Flat Pasta

We always have a bag of shrimp in our freezer. Listen, not everyone has time to run out to the local fish store to buy fresh seafood, okay! If we’re craving some shrimp, it’s nice having the frozen stuff in the house. And, honestly, it tastes pretty good for frozen. Once all the other ingredients (like our beloved garlic) are added, it all works well. So, if you can’t get the fresh shellfish, don’t scoff at frozen. I mean, for shrimp. Other seafood, like lobster, crab, or calamari, not so much! Savoring Italy has a fantastic quick and easy shrimp scampi recipe you can throw together in no time.

Parmesan & Garlic Flat Pasta

Is there anything more comforting in this life than pasta and cheese? Creamy. Dreamy. And makes the worst days feel not so bad after all! After experiencing a rough day consider creating Parmesan Garlic Linguine from Savory Experiments. You’ll forget a lot of your worries for a couple of hours.

Linguine in a Creamy Lemon Sauce

Now, I know The Pasta Project’s Pasta al Limone calls for organic lemons from Italy. BUT, you can use any normal lemon you buy at your local grocery store. I always like when recipe creators put both metric and standard units of measure.

Creamy Arugula Walnut Pesto Linguine

People think pesto an image of basil leaves dance across their brains. Pesto isn’t always basil. Pesto just means to crush or to pound. Sure, traditional pesto is made with basil leaves, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil, and parmesan cheese. However, pesto has truly become a discipline, and incorporates a vast variety of ingredients. Personally, I love unique pesto recipes, as I’m not a huge basil fan.

One unique pesto for linguine is Once Upon a Chef’s Creamy Arugula Walnut. Trust me, it’s amazing.

Creamy Cajun Linguine

Now, not that I saved the best for last….because the best for me always has lemon when making pasta. BUT, if you’re looking for a burst of flavor for dinner tonight, or for lunch tomorrow, get yourself over to A Flavor Journal’s Creamy Cajun Linguine recipe. And, if you’re looking to make your own cajun seasoning instead of buying one, head over to get Gimme Some Oven’s seasoning recipe.

Should food replace “talking things out” or working through something by writing in a journal, or asking for help, no. But man, after getting all those feelings out, there’s something about sitting down to a giant bowl of linguine with SOME kind of sauce! Any one of these flavorful linguine recipes will hit the spot you need it to hit. Enjoy ’em.

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