If you need a fast dinner, try this tasty gnocchi dish. It takes 20 minutes to prepare and your family will be grateful (and you will be too!).
Ingredients
- 1 chicken breast
- 3 pieces prosciutto
- 1 cup olive oil
- Sage leaves
- 500 ml cream
- 150 ml white wine
- 150g blue cheese / Gorgonzola
- 18 asparagus spears, woody ends removed and sliced
- 1 packet gnocchi
- Salt and pepper to season
- 150 g shaved Parmesan cheese, to garnish
- 150 g walnuts, to garnish
Method
- Pre heat the oven to 180°C. Bake the chicken breast until cooked through. Cool and slice crossways. Bake the prosciutto slices for 4 minutes until starting to crisp. Cool and then cut into slivers.
- Place olive oil in a pan and heat to 180°C. Fry the sage leaves carefully for 30 seconds, then remove and drain on absorbent paper. Set aside to use later.
- Put the cream in a pan and heat over a medium-high heat. Stir in the white wine, blue cheese / Gorgonzola.
- Slice the chicken breast evenly and also add to the sauce and season with salt and pepper. Add the slivered prosciutto and asparagus and cook gently unto the asparagus is tender.
- Meanwhile bring a large pot of water to the boil and cook the gnocchi until it is rises to the top and floats. Immediately remove the gnocchi from the water and drain thoroughly.
- Add the cooked gnocchi to the cream sauce and shake the pan over the heat until the gnocchi is evenly coated with the sauce.
- Quickly divide the gnocchi equally between serving bowls.
- Top with shaved Parmesan cheese, place walnut pieces around the rim of each bowl and garnish the top with the reserved fried sage leaves.
(Source: asparagus.com)