Ive just bought some gnocchi from aldi..

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I've never tasted it before, it's in a vacuum pack thing. What do I do with it? Have I messed up not buying fresh?

I'm always picking random things up in aldi

Shove it in some boiling salted water until it floats and serve with pasta sauce/ pesto

No, it's fine - it just has a longer shelf-life (before opening) than fresh, and it doesn't need to go in the fridge until you open it.

Just cook it as normal: into boiling water, cook around 2 mins or until they float to the surface.

HTH

Gnocchi is usually vacuum packed, you'll be fine!

I do a bake which is nice, albeit lardy - cook gnocchi and mix with single cream and dolcelatte/similar blue cheese, plus cooked broccoli. Grate Parmesan on top and bake until browned.

Someone told me that it's really nice fried. Haven't tried that yet though.

Came on to say we fry it... in a garlic and herb butter... really tasty

I like the idea of a bake! Wonder if I could do a less lardy one (I'm trying to lose a bit of weight before xmas)

I bought it last week. Bring a pan of salted water to the boil and throw in your gnocchi then scoop them out as they float to the top. Fry an onion and some garlic and chooped chorizo, add a splodge of tomato puree, a big splodge of passata and your gnocchi. Throw the lot into a baking dish, (add chilli flakes if you like heat) and top with grated parmesan and breadcrumbs - bake til bubbly and eat. Perfect comfort food.

That would be chop the chorizo rather than choop it

oh and I sometimes add a splash of red wine to the chorizo/onion/garlic bit and then the tomatoes.

Nigella has a nice recipe of gnocchi in a cider and mustard sauce with pork chops

I love gnocchi but can't pronounce it at all but no one else in the house does so I tend not to buy it. lucky buggers you are although plumpkins sounds delicious I may try to con them into eating that, depends on if dp notices the plumpness of it - that is usually the giveaway!

I love gnocchi fried, dump into boiling water at the same time heat a little oil in stir fry pan and the gnocchi floats drain immediately and throw into pan, fry until golden on both sides. Tis gorgeous :)

we chucked some in the trolley the other week in Aldi and it was solo lush we are about to buy a pile of it for the cupboard for quick meals. I completely recommend it!

I put them in an oven dish with just a little oil for twenty minutes or so until they have crisped up a bit.

They are close enough to roast potatoes to satisfy the kids without all the mess and faff of actual roast potatoes. A bit like potato croquettes I suppose.

I've also used them instead of pasta for a tuna pasta bake (shove straight from packet in to dish with tin of tuna, onion etc and then cheese over the top.

Forgot to add that I bung them straight from the packet if I am just baking them too, no precooking in this house (far far too lazy).

All these recipes sound yummy! Think ill be buying it more often!

Make this bake It's lovely.

My annoying dc didn't like it but ignore them honestly it's really yummy.

Oh I like the look of that! That's going on my list!!

Place marking as I've bought the ingredients for Plumpkins bake and i don't want tks lose the recipe!