Roasted Parma Ham, Creamy Spinach and Pine Nut Gnocchi
What better way to show off @home’s MasterChef Elite collection of cookware and stoneware, than to cook a delicious dish? I love a good gnocchi and the spinach adds some freshness, whilst the parma ham provides some much-needed salty crunchiness. All in all, with double cream and parmesan cheese, this dish is not just an easy one to make, but most importantly delicious to eat!
Ingredients list and how-to step-by-step instructions below:
Ingredients
500g pack gnocchi
1 garlic clove, sliced
3 tbsp olive oil
100ml double cream
freshly grated nutmeg
100g Parma Ham
100g spinach
zest ½ lemon
25g parmesan, grated, plus extra for serving
25g toasted pine nuts
How to Cook the Gnocchi Dish
Cook the gnocchi following pack instructions, then drain.
Heat 1 tsp of the oil in a small pan and fry the garlic, then add the cream and a good grating of nutmeg. Put to one side.
Place the Parma ham onto a silicon mat or non-stick baking paper and bake for 9-12 minutes at 200 degrees. Do not leave the oven for long as the Parma ham can burn quickly, keep your eyes on it!
Add 2 tbsp of olive to a non-stick pan and then add the gnocchi and fry until it starts to turn golden, adding a little more oil if it begins to stick. Stir in the spinach, lemon zest and seasoning.
Stir the Parmesan into the cream sauce. Spoon the gnocchi onto plates, drizzle over the sauce and scatter with pine nuts. Serve with extra Parmesan and shards of crispy Parma ham.
Enjoy! Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
This dish was created in partnership with @home, using their MasterChef Elite collection of cookware and stoneware. and the recipe was first published on the @home website.
About Shawn Godfrey
Photo credit: Niki M Photography
Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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