Gnocchi with Sausage ragu

This recipe is a super quick, super tasty mid week meal, bound to be a crowd pleaser. The original recipe is from Joe Wicks’ Lean in 15, but we’ve made a few spice additions. Let us know what you think!

It’s a super quick meal to make and only takes about 30 minutes from start to finish.

Ingredients:

• 1 red onion finely diced
• 2 cloves garlic finely diced
• 2/3 sprigs of rosemary
• 8 low fat sausages
• 1 tbsp. balsamic vinegar
• 1 x 400g tin of chopped tomatoes
• A good squeeze of tomato puree (approx. 1/2 tbsp.)
• 300g gnocchi
• good handful of basil, chopped
• 1/2 chicken/ veggie stock cube
• Dash of Worcester sauce
• Season with salt and pepper to taste

Method:

1. Fry the onions, garlic and rosemary together in a frying pan over a medium heat until onion starts to soften. Bring a large pot of water to the boil ready to cook the gnocchi later on.
2. Whilst the onions and garlic are frying, prepare the sausage ‘meatballs’. Take one sausage at a time, squeeze tightly about a third of the way down the sausage so that a small ball of meat is forced from the skin. Repeat for all of the sausages.
3. Once the onions etc. have been fried off, add the sausage balls in. Gently tumble them around the pan until they have browned slightly on the outside.
4. When the sausages are browned on the outside, turn up the heat and add the balsamic vinegar and let it bubble away until it goes thick.
5. Add the tomatoes to the pan, bring to the boil and leave to simmer for 10 minutes, during this time the sausages should cook through fully in the sauce.
6. Whilst the sauce is simmering., drop the gnocchi into a pan of well salted boiling water, and cook for 2-3 minutes (or according to your packet instructions).
7. Cut into a sausage to make sure they are cooked through. Then divvy up the gnocchi into two bowls, top with the ragu and garnish with a good helping of the chopped basil.

We hope you enjoy making this dish, and do experiment with the sausage ragu, we’re thinking of using different flavoured sausages next time and might even add some chilli to the sauce. Let us know your creations in the comments below. 😀 😛