21 Valentine's Day Pasta Recipes for Two

Valentine's Day is the perfect excuse to treat your sweetheart to a romantic dinner. If dinner reservations at a fancy restaurant for filet mignon with a lobster tail are not an option, cooking at home is! Pasta is a great option for a perfect romantic dinner for a special occasion like Valentine's day or any at-home date night. Bonus points for flowers, candy, and a bottle of good red wine. 21 Valentine's Day Pasta Recipes for Two includes some of my favorite Valentine's day dinner ideas from fellow bloggers. Some are fancy, some are simple, but they all work well for a special meal on a cozy night at any time of year. Let's get started!

In no particular order, here are 21 easy Valentine's Day dinner ideas:

Mussel Pasta (Italian recipe with Olives and Tomatoes)

This mussel pasta recipe is so flavorful, and the step-by-step directions make it so easy, with perfect results every time. If you are looking for a great pasta with mussels recipe, you’ve found it in this one. The best part is that it can be on the table in just 40 minutes!

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Homemade Cheese & Lavender Pasta

This creamy pasta recipe makes both an impressive starter and the main course! A combination of tangy cheese and floral lavender makes a perfectly sophisticated filling for stuffed pasta. Served with a roux-based sauce and topped with crunchy flaked almonds, Homemade Cheese & Lavender Pasta makes a wonderful dish for a date night or dinner party!

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Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Pasta

Once you taste this Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Pasta, it's going to be your family's first choice for pasta dinners. This quick creamy vegetarian pasta recipe uses sun-dried tomato pesto and bursts with rich garlic, basil, and cheese! It is conveniently customizable with any veggies to create your own favorite version.

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Squid Ink Pasta With Seafood and White Wine Sauce

Ridiculously easy to put together, but with the wow factor to astonish all foodies! Use dried pasta to make a quick weeknight dinner, or go all out and make your own fresh homemade squid ink linguine for a decadent showstopper dish! Whichever option you use, our Squid Ink Pasta with Seafood is one of the most delicious pasta dishes on our Italian food inspired recipe list!

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Vegan Mushroom Pasta

This plant-based mushroom pasta sauce is easy to make and filled with delicious and flavorful veggies and herbs. This dish is a great vegan alternative for a mushroom alfredo sauce or a mushroom alfredo pasta dish. It is an easy recipe to follow and uses delicious plant-based ingredients that everyone can love!

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Linguine alle Vongole - Pasta with Clam Sauce

This recipe for Linguine Alle Vongole, aka pasta with clam sauce, is an easy and delicious classic Italian seafood dinner that uses mostly pantry ingredients and only takes 30 minutes to make. Combining pasta and clams, It has a silky, garlicky, buttery sauce, salty, tender clams, and perfectly cooked, al dente linguini. It's simple Italian comfort food at its best.

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Pasta With Cauliflower Recipe: A Creamy Recipe

Pasta with cauliflower is a healthy, delicious, and super easy-to-prepare first-course meal. It has a creamy texture thanks to the cauliflower, and in this recipe, we enriched this delicious pasta and cauliflower with the addition of pancetta. This pasta recipe could be on anyone's list of Valentine Day pasta dishes.

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Vegan Fettuccine Alfredo (No Cashews)

This vegan fettuccine alfredo has a velvety smooth and creamy sauce offering much-needed comfort on a cold day. Made nut-free and dairy-free. Vegan fettuccine alfredo is a tasty dairy-free alternative to a classic Italian dish. There's flavor from garlic, nutritional yeast, and lemon juice. It’s easy to make and comes together really quickly! It's the perfect weeknight meal or vegan Valentine's Day dinner.

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Sun Dried Tomato Pasta

This hearty pasta is made with flavorful sun dried tomatoes, and fresh herbs, and is the perfect dish for an easy dinner at home or for Valentine's Day dinners! There are suggestions for making the pasta vegan, plant-based, and gluten-free too.

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Cod Pasta with Pesto, Peas and Bacon

Cod pasta with pesto, peas, and crispy bacon, is a quick and quite easy recipe that tastes as if you spent far longer making dinner than you did! This recipe is done and on the table, in the amount of time, it takes to boil the pasta, making it a perfect midweek meal or a quick Valentine's Day pasta when February 15th falls on a weekday.

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Tuscan Pasta

This savory pasta is made with sun-dried tomatoes, sautéed garlic, and fresh herbs. It takes only 25 minutes to make from start to finish! This recipe takes only 25 minutes to complete, making it perfect for a last-minute meal or a great option for a Valentine's Day pasta dinner when February 15th falls on a weekday.

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Gnocchi al Pomodoro with extra crunch

This Gnocchi al Pomodoro recipe is so easy, fast, and frankly too good tasting for the time and preparation it needs. It’s a dish filled with flavors and textures, in one bite you’ll get a smooth gnocchi, its coating of tangy tomato sauce, and a crunchy factor whether it’s the salty crispy ham or the fresh arugula. A dream dish, plus with all those textures and colors going, a perfect romantic dish for Valentine's day.

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Pea Pancetta Pasta

A quick and easy weeknight pasta that's packed full of flavor, Pea Pancetta Pasta combines sweet peas with salty pancetta, Parmesan cheese, and the perfect panko crunch for a 25-minute orecchiette pasta recipe you'll want to add to your regular rotation! It is a recipe you'll want to keep in mind for fancy date night too because no one will guess how easy it was to make!

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Bacon And Mushroom Pasta

Winner winner, (healthy) pasta dinner! This bacon and mushroom pasta is the perfect dish to satisfy your noodle cravings. Sprinkle it with fresh herbs for a quick and balanced lunch or dinner. The dish is simple but sophisticated enough for date night or a Valentine's Day dinner for two!

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Sauce for Lobster Ravioli

If you are serving lobster ravioli for Vantemtimes Day dinner, you need an elevated garlic butter sauce for serving over your ravioli. This recipe complements the delicate, rich, sweet lobster with garlic, butter, the fresh flavor of bright lemon, white wine, and earthy sage. It’s simple to make and one of the best ways to impress your guests.

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Bean & Pasta Vegetarian Casserole – High Protein - Vegan

This vegetarian casserole combines hearty white beans, filling pasta, and juicy cherry tomatoes in a warming dish that is perfect for a healthy, satisfying dinner. This dish is the perfect Valentine's Day pasta dinner option for vegetarian healthy-eating couples.

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15-minute Tortellini Carbonara

15-minutes and 6 simple ingredients are all you need to make this delicious Tortellini Carbonara. Following the traditional method for making creamy carbonara without cream, filled tortellini is what gives this cheesy pasta a fun new twist.

Tortellini and carbonara sauce are two of the best things ever.

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Lemon Ricotta Pasta

Make Lemon Ricotta Pasta in under 10 minutes for a quick & easy meal. Loaded with lemon & garlic flavors this cheesy pasta is a great main course or side dish for your favorite protein. it's a great pasta dish for those super busy weeknight dinners when you just need to get something on the table quickly, or one of those date nights when you want to make it seem as if you worked for hours.

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Lemon Garlic Shrimp Fettuccine

Lemon, garlic, olive oil, and red pepper flakes bring a punch of flavor to this quick and easy creamy shrimp pasta recipe! This is a simple dish that can be elevated to date night or Valentine's Day dinner status without changing a single thing.

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Creamy Sweet Potato Pasta Recipe

This Creamy Sweet Potato Pasta recipe is so savory, cheesy, and cozy. Made with healthy sweet potatoes and a delicious homemade sauce, it's perfect to enjoy as a fun fall or holiday dish. Sweet potato noodles, fragrant spices, cheeses, cream, and just a few more ingredients are all you need to bring this pasta recipe together. Pink pasta is Valentine's Day dinner perfection!

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Healthy & Creamy Tuscan Salmon Pasta

My Tuscan Salmon Pasta is so creamy and delicious that you would never know it’s also healthy! This pan-seared salmon pasta recipe uses no cream which saves hundreds of calories. I also serve my Tuscan Salmon Pasta over whole wheat linguini for extra fiber.

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