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#WFD – Gnocchi with Creamy Butternut, Sage and Pine Nuts

Add the cooked gnocchi, stir well and season with black pepper.

POLOKWANE – Instead of a usual and classic pasta dish for dinner tonight, why not try this delicious gnocchi dish?

What’s for Dinner says this Italian inspired dish using gnocchi (small dumplings made from flour and potatoes) makes a tasty dinner.

Ingredients

  1. 500g butternut, peeled and cubed
  2. 500g fresh potato gnocchi
  3. 125ml white wine
  4. 35g pine nuts
  5. 125ml cream
  6. 250ml milk
  7. 1 x KNORR Alfredo Pasta and Sauce
  8. 5ml Robertsons Sage

Method

  1. Steam peeled and cubed butternut in the microwave with a little salted water for 10 minutes until soft.
  2. Remove from microwave, drain and mash with a potato masher until smooth but do not add any butter or margarine.
  3. Boil a pot of salted water and place gnocchi into the boiling water.
  4. When the gnocchi floats up to the surface of the water it means it is cooked – this will take about 4–5 minutes.
  5. Remove cooked gnocchi from the pot with a slotted spoon and set aside.
  6. Heat a large based frying pan.
  7. When hot add the white wine and pine nuts and allow the alcohol to boil off of the wine.
  8. The pine nuts will start to swell and begin to infuse the wine with a nutty taste.
  9. Stir in the cream, milk, sachet of KNORR Alfredo Pasta & Sauce and Robertsons Sage.
  10. Add the mashed butternut and stir until combined with the cream sauce.
  11. Add the cooked gnocchi, stir well and season with black pepper.
  12. Garnish generously with parmesan shavings.

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Raeesa Sempe

Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard

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