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Wild Crab Gnocchi & Tomato with Chilli, Rocket & Samphire
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
Low sat fat
Serving size
Ingredients
- 40g rocket
- 100g white crab meat (Crustaceans) (white crab meat)
- 70g samphire
- 300g potato gnocchi (Potato Puree (Water, Potato Flakes and Potato Starch Equal To 98% Of Potatoes), Salt, Rice Flour.)
- 2 tbsp sundried tomato paste (Tomato Puree, Sundried Tomatoes, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Pine Kernels, Salt)
- 1 tbsp chilli paste (Red Chilli Puree, Olive oil, White wine vinegar, Sea salt)
- 4 garlic clove
- 110g baby tomatoes
- 1 unwaxed lemon
Nutritional Information
Calories: 503
Protein: 17g
Carbs: 57g
Fat: 23g
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp chilli paste (use half) (Red Chilli Puree, Olive oil, White wine vinegar, Sea salt)
- 110g baby tomatoes (use half)
- 1 unwaxed lemon (use half)
- 40g rocket (use half)
- 2 tbsp sundried tomato paste (use half) (Tomato Puree, Sundried Tomatoes, Rapeseed Oil, Water, Pine Kernels, Salt)
- 4 garlic clove
- 70g samphire (use half)
- 300g potato gnocchi (use half) (Potato Puree (Water, Potato Flakes and Potato Starch Equal To 98% Of Potatoes), Salt, Rice Flour.)
- 100g white crab meat (use half) (Crustaceans) (white crab meat)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 514
Protein: 18g
Carbs: 59g
Fat: 24g
Wild Crab Gnocchi & Tomato with Chilli, Rocket & Samphire
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 large frying pan, a medium saucepan, a measuring jug, a sieve & a grater
Prep time
- Finely slice the garlic. Zest and quarter the lemon. Halve the tomatoes
Build the sauce
- Heat the large frying pan with 2 tbsp oil on medium heat. Once hot, add the tomatoes, garlic, chilli paste, sundried tomato paste and lemon zest and cook for 3-4 mins, until the tomatoes are soft
- Stir in 150ml water (75ml for 1 person) and simmer for 3-4 mins, until the sauce has thickened
Gnocchi time
- Meanwhile, bring the medium saucepan filled with salted hot water to a boil
- Add the gnocchi and samphire and simmer for 2 mins, or until the gnocchi floats to the surface, then drain together
Bring everything together
- Stir the crab into the sauce and cook for 1 min, until warmed through
- Stir in the samphire, gnocchi, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper
Plate up
- Share the crab gnocchi between bowls, with the rocket alongside. Drizzle with 1 tsp olive oil and season with a pinch of salt and pepper. Garnish with the remaining lemon wedges for squeezing over
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