Creamy gnocchi with smoked kransky, cherry tomatoes and baby spinach
A delicious creamy gnocchi that's delightfully paired with smoked kransky, tomatoes, baby spinach and lashings of parmesan cheese to serve
Equipment
- 6L slow cooker
- Saucepan and boiling water to cook gnocchi
Ingredients
- 3 x 500 grams Potato Gnocchi: – can reduce to 2 packets to serve 4 people
- 600 ml cooking cream – see notes below
- 340 ml can of evaporated milk
- 1 tsp heaped, cornflour
- 100 gram cream cheese, cut into cubes
- 400 grams double smoked kransky, sliced
- 50 grams Baby spinach leaves
- 250 grams cherry tomatoes, sliced into halves
- 1 tsp Dried Italian herbs
- Salt and pepper to season
- 100 grams block parmesan cheese, grated – see notes
Instructions
- Combine cream, evaporated milk and cornflour and whisk to mix. Add this to slow cooker.
- Add to the slow cooker the cream cheese cubes, sliced kransky, spinach, sliced tomatoes, Italian herbs and salt and pepper. Mix gently to combine.
- Cook on low for 4.5hrs total. Around the 4hr mark cook your gnocchi. Cook gnocchi in boiling water as per pkt instructions (usually 2mins).
- Strain then gently add gnocchi to slow cooker and top with some of the freshly grated parmesan cheese. Stir gently to combine ingredients. Continue to cook on low for 15mins
- Gently spoon into your serving bowls and top generously with freshly grated block parmesan cheese and serve immediately. Enjoy!
NOTES
- ~ Cooking cream is a type of cream that doesn't split during cooking. More info on that HERE.
- ~ While I often buy packet grated/shaved parmesan, I really feel this recipe benefits from the BLOCK version you can finely grate yourself for better flavour and less saltiness and less additives that you find in the packet version – it melts better also 🙂
- ~ This recipe could also be used as a PASTA SAUCE also – just toss through you favourite cooked pasta instead of the gnocchi
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Looks great – will try this one
yummo! had me at creamy,cheesy sauce,certainly didn’t disappoint! This was amazing,I personally am not a gnocchi lover but hey gotta give it a go,it was nice but this sauce will be a keeper for me with pasta from now on,I added fresh basil leaves. Another awesome slow cooker recipe,thankyou Pauline!
Love this feedback – thanks so much Kath!! 🙂
I have some cheese kransky in the fridge waiting to be used so it is in SC now 🙂
How was it?
Love love love the sauce😍. Next time will add some garlic🧄. The house smelt delicious, I couldn’t wait till dinner time. Hubby absolutely loved it. It will be on a monthly repeat for us. Thank you Paulene for sharing your new recipe, another winning dinner🏆🙏❤️🌹
Hooray! So happy you loved it tooooo!! 🙂
It was really yummy! Empty plates all around the table. Didn’t have gnocchi so used pasta and added some diced salami and powdered garlic.
AWWW thanks! 🙂 I knew it would be great with pasta too so this is great to hear 🙂
I made this tonight but was limited on time, so after a small amount of advice from our amazing Paulene, I decided to cook this on high.
After 2 hours it was ready for the cooked pasta, I did it with tortellini (as I’m not a fan of gnocchi) it was absolutely beautiful, with a nice but not too thick sauce.
Will definitely make this again.
Thanks so much for letting us know your timing for high – so pleased it turned out great 🙂