Creamy Sausage Gnocchi
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A quick 30 min ONE POT meal! With crumbled Italian sausage, sneaked in spinach and the best tomato cream sauce ever!
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New year, new you, new cream sauce. A cream sauce so heavenly with perfectly cooked potato gnocchi, crumbled Italian sausage, and sneaked in greens for those picky eaters.
why i love this recipe
- 30 min meal. This restaurant-quality dish comes together lightning fast in 30 min from start to finish, an absolute weeknight hero.
- One pot meal. Everything cooks in one single pot, even the uncooked gnocchi soaking up all the sauce, making clean up an absolute breeze. Less dishes means less time for clean up!
- Flexible recipe. Any lingering veggies (ex. chopped bell peppers and broccoli florets) or extra herbs can be thrown right in for a great clean-out-the-fridge meal.
tips and tricks for success
- Use your favorite meat. Italian sausage (sweet or spicy), ground beef, chicken or turkey will all work very well here.
- Add in leafy greens. This is a great recipe to sneak in leafy greens for those picky eaters. Spinach, kale, collard greens, swiss chard, or arugula are all great options.
- Add the cream slowly. Always add the heavy cream at the very end, pouring very slowly to prevent curdling.
- Serve with crusty bread. Serve with all the homemade crusty bread for dipping, sopping and dunking!
what to serve with creamy sausage gnocchi
Tools For This Recipe
Dutch oven
Creamy Sausage Gnocchi: Frequently Asked Questions
Sweet or spicy Italian sausage are both great options. Ground beef also works beautifully here.
Tomato sauce, in the US, is tomato puree typically cooked down for a thick, smooth consistency with a relatively sweet flavor. Passata is simply uncooked tomato purée. You can use passata in place of tomato sauce, but it is not a completely equal substitute.
Not at all! That is the beauty of this recipe – the uncooked gnocchi cooks right in that tomato saucy goodness.
We love cauliflower potato gnocchi but any gnocchi of your choosing should work very well in this recipe.
Kale, collard greens, swiss chard, or arugula are all great options to swap out the spinach.
Heavy cream (or heavy whipping cream) has one of the highest fat contents with about 36-40% fat. Half and half or whole milk are suitable substitutes, but will yield a lighter result.
Creamy Sausage Gnocchi
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pound Italian sausage, casing removed
- ½ medium sweet onion, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 2 cups beef stock
- 1 (8-ounce) can tomato sauce
- 24 ounces cauliflower potato gnocchi
- 4 cups chopped baby spinach
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- ¼ cup basil leaves
Equipment
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add Italian sausage and onion, and cook until sausage has browned, about 3-5 minutes, making sure to crumble the sausage as it cooks; drain excess fat.
- Stir in garlic and Italian seasoning until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Gradually whisk in beef stock and tomato sauce. Stir in gnocchi. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer until reduced and slightly thickened, and the gnocchi is cooked through, about 6-8 minutes.
- Stir in spinach and heavy cream until the spinach has wilted, about 1-2 minutes.
- Stir in Parmesan; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Serve immediately, garnished with basil, if desired.
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Easy and delicious!
This recipe caught my eye because of a the gnocchi’s. It’s a big plus to not have to pre cook the gnocchi’s. I cut up chicken into small pieces. I don’t like ground meat. Taste and season as you go. It was delicious!
Saw the recipe and tried it the next day. So delicious and simple to make. I used spicy Italian sausage to give it some “fire” and it sure did! Great on these cold winter days.
I have made lots of your recipes but this one is by far number one on my list of loves! So easy, fast and delicious. Even my husband, who isn’t big on pasta loved it and said he would be very happy if he got this dish in a top notch Italian restaurant! The only thing I did differently was to use potato gnocchi because I couldn’t find the cauliflower. Honestly, I don’t know how it could have been any better. If you can find the sausage in bulk it shaves a couple minutes off the prep since you don’t have to take the skins off the individual sausages. Keep these 5 star winners coming. I’m loving it.
Easy and delicious!
I used plant based sausage and loved it!
Damn delicious !! but couldn’t find the cauliflower gnocchi. had to use a potato gnocchi stuffed with burrata- was quite good!
I saw this recipe yesterday and made it today! I just happened to have all the ingredients and on this snow, cold day….it was perfect and DELISH! Next time I may add some green pepper and black beans to veg it up a bit. But we LOVED it. It as easy, quick and so tasty!
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this quick and easy recipe that goes so easily with simple side dishes! It looks so doable for a work day… I pinned it to “easy recipes” and I can’t wait to try this!
In the recipe, there is an x beside heavy cream, parmesan and basil. Not sure what that means in terms of how much to use!
Thanks!
It is 1/4 cup on each.
This looks and sounds so damn good. Great flavors. My kind of comfort food!