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 2: Cook one pound of Italian sausage in a pot. (This is the pot that I use the most for dishes like this.) Once fully cooked, set the sausage to the side and leave some of the grease in the pot.
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!
If my opening paragraph got you thinking about soup, I have an easy soup recipe that I posted last year that you can give a try! As always let me know if you end up trying any of my recipes at home!
XO,
