Description
This easy vegan gnocchi bake with tomato and spinach is a delicious, quick and easy to make and a great healthy comfort food that's perfect for a weeknight dinner.
Ingredients
500g gnocchi
500g passata
100g frozen spinach
1 tsp olive oil
2 tsp minced garlic
Basil springs
1 white onion, chopped
For the topping:
3 slices bread
4 cloves garlic
2 tbsp nutritional yeast
2 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
Heat up the olive oil in a pan. Cook the onions for a minute or two on a medium heat until they turn translucent. Add the minced garlic, stir and cook for another minute.
Add the tinned tomatoes / passata, brown sugar, basil and frozen spinach and cook through until hot and the spinach has defrosted and been mixed through.
Add the gnocchi straight from the packet (no need to pre-cook).
Stir through the gnocchi and remove it from the heat.
Make the crunchy topping by blitzing the olive oil, nutritional yeast and garlic together in a food processor.
Toast the bread slightly so that it is crispy, or use a stale loaf. Break it into pieces and put it into the food processor with the garlic cloves, olive oil and nutritional yeast. Blitz until the bread is broken into breadcrumbs.
Put the gnocchi and tomato mixture into an ovenproof dish and sprinkle the breadcrumb topping over the top.
Bake in the oven at 180 degrees celcius for 30 minutes. If the breadcrumbs start to look like they are going too brown, cover with some foil to stop them burning.