{"id":95545,"date":"2017-11-21T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T21:41:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T21:41:13","slug":"cheesy-chorizo-gnocchi-bake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/21\/cheesy-chorizo-gnocchi-bake\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheesy Chorizo Gnocchi Bake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you ever dreamed about what it would be like to immerse yourself within a gooey spicy vat of melty cheese? No, nor me either but after making this bake it honestly doesn’t seem like a bad option in the middle of winter and all its snowy grey and drizzle ridden dreariness! I know I will melt come summer and its humid fly filled evenings but I hate being cold, my body hates being cold so it really cannot come around soon enough! Cold is bad unless it involves ice cream and lots of it!<\/div>\n
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As much as my stretchy work trousers are suddenly feeling much more snug than I would like, winter is simply not made for salad and when the evenings are lighter, evening walks will re-commence and hopefully those trousers will become slightly less snug! Sometimes you just need a comforting, warming dish that gives you a well needed hug, and my Cheesy Chorizo Gnocchi Bake gives you a lovely sleep inducing cuddling up on the sofa with your loved one kinda hug.<\/div>\n
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When planning our meals they are a mixture of tried and trusted, random things I snag online or in my overflowing collection of torn out recipes and the rest I imagine ingredients I would like to eat but this dish came to me in a dream. I have only ever baked gnocchi once in a rather nice prawn dish but some reason its not an ingredient I really think of and when I was recently carrying out the reverse dad taxi role, and taking my dad shopping following some surgery I spotted a packet of Gnocchi. Then the image in my dream formed and this dish was born a few nights later! I did once attempt to make my own but its better to just buy them unless you are gnocchi master perhaps.<\/div>\n
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Serves 3-4 with a side<\/strong><\/div>\n
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125g mozzarella, torn into chunks<\/div>\n
500g prepared gnocchi, boiled and drained.<\/div>\n
120g spicy chorizo, sliced into thin half moons<\/div>\n
400g tin cherry tomatoes<\/div>\n
2 heaped tbsp grated cheddar<\/div>\n
1 onion, finely chopped<\/div>\n
75ml milk<\/div>\n
1 garlic clove, crushed<\/div>\n
2 sprigs fresh rosemary, finely chopped<\/div>\n
1 tbsp olive oil<\/div>\n
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In a large saut\u00e9 pan, heat the oil and gently fry the onion for 3 minutes, or until starting to become translucent, add the garlic and chorizo and fry for a further 3 minutes, or until the chorizo has released its fragrant oils and has lightly browned. Stir through the tomatoes, rosemary and add the milk, gently simmer, covered for ten minutes.<\/div>\n
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Pre-heat oven to 200o<\/div>\n
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Stir the prepared gnocchi into the sauce, being careful not to break the tomatoes, and transfer into a small baking dish – I used my pie dish which is multi versatile! <\/div>\n
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Sprinkle over the grated cheddar, transfer to the oven and bake for 40 minutes or until all lovely, golden and bubbling.<\/div>\n
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Serve hot with buttered greens:<\/p>\n

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As delicious as the bake was I would suggest its eaten all in one sitting – we kept some back for lunches…but the gnocchi kinda soak up the sauce and its edible but not quite as good the next day…<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever dreamed about what it would be like to immerse yourself within a gooey spicy vat of melty cheese? No, nor me either but after making this bake it honestly doesn’t seem like a bad option in the middle of winter and all its snowy grey and drizzle ridden dreariness! I know I will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}