Kind of a ridiculous description but I can’t come up with a better one. Maybe I’m uninspired tonight but this dish is hit you over the head tasty comfort food. Tang from the tomatoes. Depth from the sausage. Melted cheese. Lots of melted cheese. Warm and gooey and good.
Gnocchi with sausage is weeknight food
It’s like a lasagna you can whip up in just over an hour. And most of that time is unattended. It’s way easier than a lasagna but it’s the same general idea. Tomato sauce. Cheese. Meat. Pasta. All the major food groups in one perfect dish. It’s a simple recipe so you can’t hide bad ingredients. San Marzano tomatoes aren’t 100 percent necessary but they really do add something special. Decent Italian sausage isn’t that to find. And that leaves the cheese. Fresh mozzarella. Again, not hard to find. Even Costco carries it. It also goes by fior di latte. Either way it’s a revelation worth seeking out.
This is comfort food
Gnocchi with sausage is family food. Food to share with good friends. Food your kids will love. Its for people that value flavour over flash. You can’t plate it in any way that looks good. It’s just a big mess of stringy cheese. Tasty, tasty stringy cheese. If you are serving it at a dinner party cook individual portions in ramekins or other small oven-proof dishes. Serve it up with a nice green salad. That would work nicely. Get you flash and flavour.
One thing to note. Gnocchi with sausage isn’t a side dish. These are big tastes. Hit you over the head big. Completely overpower anything you put it up against big. It is either an appetizer (think primi in the Italian way) or a main course. Either way, gnocchi with sausage tomato sauce is going to be a hit. Maybe even a home run.
