Hi Everyone! I am so excited to share this easy recipe I put together using kale, Italian sausage, and gnocchi. I don’t know about all of you, but one of my favorite favorite dishes from Olive Garden was always their potato gnocchi soup. No, this isn’t a copycat recipe for the soup, but that soup introduced me to gnocchi. It wasn’t an ingredient that my parents cooked with growing up, but it’s something that I now try to create my own recipes with. This is a recipe I just threw a bunch of stuff I had in the fridge together to see if it would work… and it did! It’s now a hit in our house and heavily requested.
Servings 4-5
Cost Total: $20.85 Per Serving: $4.17
Time Prep: 15 minutes Cook: 40 minutes
Ingredients 1 lb. Ground Italian Sausage 16 oz. of Gnocchi 1 White Onion 1 Bunch of Kale 1 Cup of Vegetable Broth 1 Cup of Pinot Grigio 1 Cup of Shredded Parmesan Cheese 1/2 Cup of Heavy Whipping Cream
Seasonings 4 Tbsp. of Olive Oil 2 Cloves of Fresh Garlic 1.5 Tbsp. of Flour Italian Seasoning Salt Pepper
Step 1: Clean, dice, and prepare all of the ingredients needed. Dice the onion into small pieces first. I don’t use kale often and I know that I am not the only one. Pulling the leaves from the stem and then cutting into 2-inch pieces is the most efficient way to prepare the kale for this dish.
Step 3: Grab a different pot and add water and salt to it. You’ll be adding your gnocchi once the water is boiling.
Step 4: Add the onions, 4 tablespoons of olive oil, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning and 2 cloves of fresh garlic into the same pot the sausage was cooked. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Once the onions are soft, add a tablespoon of flour and mix together.
Step 5: Add the 1 cup of vegetable broth and 1 cup of pinot grigio to the onion and flour mixture. Stir all together. Allow to simmer for 10 minutes.
Step 6: Next, take your kale pieces and add half to the pot. Stir this around for a few minutes and add the other half.
Step 7: Place the potato gnocchi in the boiling water and cook for about 3-5 minutes. A trick for knowing when gnocchi is finished cooking is that they will start to float to the top of the water.
Step 8: Add the ground Italian sausage and cooked gnocchi back to the pot.
Step 10: Now you can add your 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream and 1 cup of shredded Parmesan cheese.
Step 11: Continuously stir all of the ingredients for a few minutes and bring to a simmer.
Step 12: Enjoy!
I love this creamy Italian sausage recipe and I hope that you and your family enjoy it as much as my husband and I do. Are there any gnocchi recipes that you keep in rotation? Share them with me because I am always looking to expand the ingredients I use when cooking!