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A white baking dish filled gnocchi and sausage in a tomato sauce sits on a light blue tablecloth and is surrounded by other tableware.

5-Ingredient Baked Gnocchi with Italian Sausage

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Anyone can cook
Difficulty
Medium
Total time
60 min
Cooking time
40 min
Allergens:
gnocchimozzarella cheese

This hearty and comforting dish combines crispy gnocchi with savory Italian sausage, all baked in a rich tomato sauce and topped with melted mozzarella and fresh basil. It's a quick and satisfying meal perfect for weeknights.

Ingredients

4 Portions:

700 g gnocchi

400 g Italian sausages

10 g basil

800 g canned crushed tomatoes

300 g mozzarella cheese

salt

pepper

sugar

Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 200°C Circo Therm®. Pluck basil leaves from stems. Remove the casings from the sausage and discard, then roughly chop sausage. Put the sausage pieces and the gnocchi on a baking tray, add a little oil and put them into the preheated oven at 200°C for 20 min.

Transferring gnocchi and sausage to an oven.

Step 2

Put crushed tomatoes into a baking dish and season with salt, pepper and a little sugar to balance the acidity. Transfer crispy gnocchi and sausage to the baking dish and mix together with the sauce. Drain the mozzarella and roughly tear it over the top of the baking dish. Transfer the baking dish to the oven and bake at 200°C for approx. 20 min.

Mixing baked gnocchi and sausage into the baking dish filled with tomato sauce.

Step 3

When done, remove the baking dish from the oven and garnish with the basil leaves. Enjoy!

Placing single basil leaves on top of the gnocchi bake.
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