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Speedy Wild Chilli Crab Gnocchi with Rocket
These creamy gnocchi are the perfect comfort dinner. Make a tomato sauce with tangy lemon zest, fiery fresh chilli and fragrant garlic. Then stir in sustainably-sourced, 100% white crab meat and samphire. Coat your pillowy gnocchi in the sauce and serve!
Ready in 20
9 plants
Low sat fat
Serving size
Ingredients
- 10g vegetable stock powder (Chicory Extract, Salt, Yeast Extracts, Onion Powder, Carrot Extract, Tomato Powder, Rapeseed Oil, Natural Flavouring.)
- 2 tbsp chilli paste (Red Chillies, Rapeseed Oil, White Wine Vinegar, Sea Salt)
- 600g potato gnocchi (Potato Puree (Water, Potato Flakes and Potato Starch Equal To 98% Of Potatoes), Salt, Rice Flour.)
- 70g samphire
- 30g multi seed mix (Linseeds Brown 37.5%, Sunflower seeds 37.5%, Chia Seeds 15%, Pumpkin seeds 10%)
- 1 shallot
- 1 avocado
- 200g white crab meat (Crustaceans) (white crab meat)
- 80g rocket
- 5 garlic clove
- 200g baby tomatoes
- 1 unwaxed lemon
Nutritional Information
Calories: 499
Protein: 19g
Carbs: 52g
Fat: 24g
Speedy Wild Chilli Crab Gnocchi with Rocket
These creamy gnocchi are the perfect comfort dinner. Make a tomato sauce with tangy lemon zest, fiery fresh chilli and fragrant garlic. Then stir in sustainably-sourced, 100% white crab meat and samphire. Coat your pillowy gnocchi in the sauce and serve!
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Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- Pull out a grater, a small bowl, a large frying pan, a large saucepan, a measuring jug & a sieve
Prep & pickle
- Finely slice the garlic. Zest and halve the lemon. Halve the tomatoes. Thinly slice the shallot. Dice the avocado into 1cm chunks
- In the small bowl, combine the shallot with the juice from half the lemon. Leave to pickle
Make the sauce
- Heat the large frying pan with 2 tbsp oil on medium heat (we used the 30cm HexClad Hybrid Pan). Once hot, add the garlic, lemon zest, tomatoes and chilli paste, then cook for 3-4 mins
- Add the stock powder, samphire and 200ml water. Cook for a further 3-4 mins, until the tomatoes are soft and the sauce has thickened
Gnocchi time
- Meanwhile, bring the large saucepan filled with salted water to a boil
- Once boiling, add the gnocchi and simmer for 2 mins, or until the gnocchi floats to the surface, then drain
Last bits
- Stir the crab and gnocchi into the sauce. Season with salt and pepper
- Toss the rocket and avocado through the pickled shallot with 2 tsp oil and a pinch of salt and pepper
Plate up
- Serve the crab gnocchi into bowls, with the rocket salad alongside
- Sprinkle over the seed mix. Garnish with the remaining lemon, cut into wedges
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