vegetarian gnocchi with yellow bell pepper

Last week I made the cinnamon butter gnocchi for carnival. I realized that it was the first time I published a recipe with gnocchi. Although I like this Italian potato specialty pasta a lot, I never published a recipe with gnocchi. So I decided yesterday to follow up immediately with a second gnocchi recipe: vegetarian gnocchi with yellow bell pepper.

Vegetarian gnocchi with yellow bell pepper

Vegetarian gnocchi with yellow bell pepper is a wonderful easy and surprising recipe, vegetarian and yellow for the first fasting Friday and the International Women’s Day.

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 30 mins

Total Time 40 mins

Course lunch, Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Servings 4

Ingredients

  

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• 600 gram gnocchi
• 1 piece yellow bell pepper
• 1 piece onion
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 can coconut milk 400 gram
• 1 dl white wine
• 24 pieces black olives
• 1 piece red chili pepper
• 1 teaspoon little caper
• 4 balls mini mozzarella
• 4 pieces cherry tomatoes
• 1 slice mature dutch cheese Gouda for example
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• basil leaves
• salt
• ginger powder

Instructions

 

• Chop the onion, red chilli pepper, bell pepper and garlic into fine pieces (brunoise)
• Halve the cherry tomatoes and the black olives
• If needed, cook the gnocchi according to the instructions on the package. Put them aside afterwards.
• Heat some olive oil in a wok, and bake the onion, garlic and chilli pepper for a few minutes.
• Extinguish with white wine, and let it reduce for a few minutes.
• Add the yellow bell pepper, and let it bake for a few more minutes.
• Add the coconut milk and the tomato paste, and let it cook and reduce for a few minutes on high temperature.
• Add the salt and the ginger powder to taste.
• Add the Gouda cheese, the mini mozzarella and the black olives, and let it simmer for a few more minutes.
• Also add the cherry tomatoes and the caper.
• Finally add the gnocchi and let everything mix well for a few minutes.
• Then serve in deep bowls and garnish with some halved mozzarella, cherry tomatoes and basil leaves.
• Enjoy with a glass of white wine.

Keyword bell pepper, gnocchi, yellow

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About carnival

Carnival is the week of festivities before Ash Wednesday when the 40-day fasting period before Easter starts. Nowadays the fasting period is much less intensive than the feasting period that precedes it. But to give myself a good feeling, I made a vegetarian dish on the first fasting Friday.

About International Woman’s day

For the first time, the International Women’s Day is a public Holiday in Berlin. I am very glad for that, however I hadn’t anticipated that the shops would be closed, so I had to improve with some ingredients. but it worked out all very well 🙂 On the International Women’s Day I wanted to make a special pasta version, something different from the classical tomato-cream sauce. Of course, it should taste and feel like Italy also.

As mentioned before, I had to improvise a bit. The Dutch Gouda cheese may be a surprising ingredient for an Italian gnocchi recipe. I wanted to use some Parmigiano, but then used the Gouda instead. It is also a matured cheese with a strong taste. Similarly you can use cream instead of coconut milk. You can then use less of it (250 gram). Now I took the whole can and took some patience to let it reduce.

cookblogshare

As I am quite happy with this surprising yellow combination, I submitted it to this weeks #cookblogshare, hosted by recipesmadeeasy this week. This is a very group of professional bloggers that share their knowledge and best practices. And of course their great recipes 🙂

If you speak Dutch, you can find the Dutch version of this recipe on gerechtenweb.blog.