13 No-Cook Pasta Sauces You'll Be Making on Repeat This Summer

Want to beat the heat but still get a satisfying dinner on the table? Make one of our quick and easy no-cook pasta sauces. They're all made with the freshest ingredients, and you'll only need to turn on the stove to boil the noodles. We think they're the ultimate summer dinner for those days when you don't feel like grilling.

How we make dinner during the summer is a little different than the rest of the year. Notice we say "make dinner" because sometimes it just feels too hot to cook. Grilling helps—it gets us out of the kitchen and supplements all those crisp salads made with gorgeous seasonal produce. But there's no denying the draw of pasta, and at least once a week we like to enjoy a pasta dinner; that's when these no-cook sauce recipes come in handy. We're talking no-cook tomato sauce, as well as classic and out-of-the-box pestos. Then there's our Pasta with No-Cook Puttanesca Sauce, pictured here, that's made with ripe juicy tomatoes, green olives, capers, and garlic, then finished with Pecorino Romano. And there's lots more where those came from.

Perhaps you make pesto on the regular while your basil plant flourishes in the heat or the bunches of herbs at the farmers' market lure you in every time? It's one of the best no-cook sauces around, but take that herb-nut-cheese idea and expand it by trying Silician pesto which swaps in bell pepper, tomatoes, anchovies, capers, and raisins for the basil and creates a vibrant orange sweet-and-sour sauce for spaghetti.

No matter which recipe on our list calls out to you, we're sure you'll be making these no-cook pasta sauces all summer long.