Potato Gnocchi with Vegan Pesto and Salami Pieces

Vegan Potato Gnocchi & Pesto with Vegan Salami Pieces
A simple and tasty dish with loads of flavour.

Potato Gnocchi is just about the easiest thing to cook. These are potato dumplings and work in many dishes that are based on pasta. They make a great base for many improvised recipes where you can use up bits and pieces. Here we use some vegan pesto and a spare sausage!

Ingredients:

• Packet of Potato Gnocchi (a.k.a. Gnocchi di Patate).
• Jar of Zest Vegan Pesto
• 2 or 3 Slices of Redwood's Vegan Pepperoni Style Slices or Viana's vegan salami style 'Velami'

Stage 1:

Boil some salted water and add the gnocchi. As soon as it floats to the surface it is ready (it will only take several minutes). All you need to do at this point is drain and use immediately.

Avoid over cooking as the gnocchi will soak up to much water and go very soft and mushy.

In the time that the gnocchi is boiling cut up your salami slices and put them to one side.

Stage 2 :

Then add your chopped sausages.

Its ready to serve.

1. If you are not too keen on the spicy slices, try the milder 'Viana Prima' for a vegan, mildly smoked ham style flavour.

2. Instead of just salting the water, try using one of Marigold's vegan bouillon which will add a little more flavour.

3. Watch out when buying Potato Gnocchi - its not always vegan, look out for milk and even eggs before buying.

* We do not suggest exact quantities as our 'recipes' are a guide and we like to improvise when we cook. You may make for one or for many people, and you may be prefer to use more of less of each of the ingredients to suit your own taste. The recipe outlined above was how we created our dish, but we encourage you to play a bit and taylor it to your needs :-)