Name: Pan Fried Gnocchi with Pumpkin & Spinach Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: 500g/1lb pumpkin, cut into 2cm / 4/5″ pieces; 1 tbsp olive oil; 350g/12oz gnocchi, store bought (Note 1); 45g / 3 tbsp butter, salted (unsalted also ok, just add more salt); 1 garlic clove (large), minced; 80g / 2.5oz baby spinach leaves; 1/2 tsp fresh sage, finely sliced; Salt & pepper; Parmesan cheese, freshly grated

Pan fried gnocchi – crispy, golden and buttery on the skin, gentle on the within, tossed with roasted pumpkin and spinach. That is considered one of my favorite methods to make gnocchi with out blowing my carb meter and making a dreamy buttery sauce with out utilizing tons of butter!

Pan Fried Gnocchi

I completely adore gnocchi. If I am going to an Italian restaurant, chances are high I’ll order gnocchi.

I put it above handmade pasta. That’s how a lot I adore it.

And up till perhaps a yr in the past, I used to be a complete gnocchi snob. I’d solely ever have recent or home made gnocchi. Scarred from my uni days once I made retailer purchased gnocchi and it was so chewy and tasteless.

However within the years which have handed, I need to say that packaged gnocchi has come a great distance and now I fortunately use packaged gnocchi!

This gnocchi is served with a butter sauce which is a traditional sauce for gnocchi.

What does Gnocchi style like?

Gnocchi is a potato flour dumpling, so it tastes like a cross between pasta and mashed potato. It’s gentle on the within, and when pan fried like on this recipe, it’s crispy on the skin.

Plain gnocchi, like pasta, doesn’t even have a lot flavour in itself. So it’s used with sauces and very best for add-ins, like pumpkin and spinach which is what I’m utilizing right here.

Filling out Gnocchi with Pumpkin

So these days, armed with the comfort of retailer purchased gnocchi, the solely factor that holds me again from a weekly gnocchi repair is that it’s so excessive in carbs.

250g/8oz of gnocchi has 90g of carbs, 400 energy. And it’s tremendous dense so it’s solely about 1 cup in quantity which isn’t sufficient for a meal (a minimum of, not for me!)

Add a sauce and the calorie depend begins mountaineering up fairly significantly….

So to “lighten” it up and fill it out extra, I like so as to add roasted pumpkin which has solely 20g of carbs and 85 energy per 250g/8oz, nearly 1/4 of gnocchi!

Plus roasted pumpkin is so juicy, it supplies extra “wetness” to this dish as an alternative of including extra butter.

Including roasting pumpkin provides flavour in addition to filling out the gnocchi dish to make it a filling meal

Butter sauce for Gnocchi

I believe a easy butter sauce is the perfect sauce for gnocchi. However you don’t want tons of butter! For those who simply make this with a great deal of butter for the sauce, it’s far too wealthy.

So the best way to make a butter sauce is so as to add a number of the water used to cook dinner the gnocchi. This water is starchy, and when tossed with the butter sauce, the starch within the water reacts with the butter to thicken the water and creates a shiny butter sauce.

It’s how an actual correct Alfredo is made, the best way eating places make it, with out utilizing tons of cream. 🙂

So I exploit that very same approach to make the butter sauce for this Pan Fried Gnocchi too. So each piece of golden crispy gnocchi is coated in a buttery sauce that truly clings to the gnocchi quite than pooling within the base of the bowl.

You’ll love this, I promise! Sure it’s indulgent, and sure it’s nonetheless carb heavy, however it’s lighter than making it with out pumpkin. Do this with recent backyard salad on the facet, tossed with Balsamic or Italian dressing! – Johnsat x