Spicy Sausage Gnocchi
 
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Recipe type: Main Entrée, All-in-One Meal
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 550g/1lb gnocchi
  • 450g/1lb sausage meat*
  • 1 onion
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 390g/14oz (1 can) chopped tomatoes with basil
  • dash each of chili powder, chili flakes, paprika and ground ginger
  • handful of cherry tomatoes, sliced lengthwise (optional)
  • 1-2 cups of fresh spinach
  • hard goat or sheep's cheese (like Pecorino) OR Parmesan
Instructions
  1. Chop the onions and garlic.
  2. In large saucepan or wok, brown the sausage with onion and garlic (about 5min). Once browned, add the chopped tomatoes, chili powder, chili flakes, paprika, and ginger. Turn the heat down and simmer for 10min.
  3. Meanwhile, boil water and cook the gnocchi according to package directions.
  4. Add the spinach and cherry tomatoes to the sausage and cook a further 2-5min until spinach and tomatoes just wilt.
  5. Stir in the cooked gnocchi & take off heat. Top with freshly grated cheese.
Notes
The proportions here are meat heavy, which worked well for us, but for a more gnocchi-focused dish, you could get away with half as much sausage.

*Use the sausage heat/flavor of choice, but a tiny bit of spice makes this dish extra nice (like an Arrabbiata). In America it's easy to get sweet or spicy 'Italian' sausage, which would be my recommendation for this dish. One of the main distinguishing flavors of Italian sausage is fennel seeds, so when cooking this where Italian sausage isn't available, I add a sprinkling of fennel seeds when adding the spices.
Recipe by OntheFly Recipes at https://www.ontheflyrecipes.com/2016/06/sausage-gnocchi/