Category: spinach
an interesting gnocchi recipe
Ingredients
- 500 g spinach
- 2 cloves garlic sliced
- 1/2 nutmeg grated
- 200 g pancetta diced
- 500 g gnocchi
- 150 ml creme fraiche
Instructions
- Fry the spinach an garlic in a hot pan with a little oil until the the spinach is well-wilted. Remove to a chopping board, add the nutmeg and squeeze the excess juice out with your hands or through a sieve. Run through the spinach with a knife several times to make it bitesize.
- In the same pan, fry the pancetta. Whilst it fries get the gnocchi on to boil. When the gnocchi is ready add it to the pancetta pan and toss well so it gets coated in the pancetta oil. Add the creme fraiche and spinach mix back into the pan, season with salt and pepper and add parmesan to taste. Serve immediately.
Uncle Ben’s make this rice stuff, pre-cooked and sealed in packets. It’s dead easy as a side dish, but I wanted to do more. I hit on the idea of a pilaff-style dish.
I started by dry-frying spinach with sliced garlic and grated nutmeg. When it had shrunk to hardly anything (always amazes me how much water disappears!) I removed it and drained the excess water off. Then in the same pan I fried diced turkey breast that had been marinated in cumin and coriander. As it is nearly done I added a packet of vegetable ready-cooked rice, and after a minute added the spinach back in. Served with pitta and lemon wedges.
Takes about ten minutes, and is very tasty.