This pasta dish is super delicious.
Gnocchi casserole is everyday food at its best. Leena Ahokas
– The old dear gnocchi pan is a perfect everyday savior, assures the food influencer Leena Ahokas.
And that’s how it is, everyday food doesn’t get any easier. Or a party dish, because the gnocchi dish also works well on the party table.
Ahokas keeps her husband Iman Gharagozlun with the super popular Iman ja Leena safkaa channel. In the fall, they published Everyday life-book (WSOY 2023), one recipe of which is precisely gnocchi casserole.
The secret to the ease of this dish is that you don’t chop anything. Pour all the ingredients into the pan and let the oven do the rest.
– Extremely easy food that can be prepared together with children. This does not require cooking skills, Ahokas encourages.
He advises that if you don’t want to use fresh herbs, dry spices work great. And if necessary, you can make the dish with just tomato puree and add some spices. Or you can add some vegetables to the pan or, for example, a bag of frozen spinach. Everything is allowed.
Even though the ingredients of the gnocchi dish include olives and capers, it has also been enjoyed by children. Ahokas laughs that the youngest children in his cousin’s family have fallen in love with capers so much that they wanted to give them to everyone as a Christmas present.
The world’s easiest gnocchi pan
(6-8 servings)
1 prk (approx. 200 g) (kalamata) olives
1 jar (50 g) capers
olive oil
2 packs of potato gnocchi
2 cans (approx. 800 g) of arrabbia sauce
200 g cherry tomatoes
a few sprigs of fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried
a pinch of chili flakes
2 pkt (approx. 250 g) mozzarella
For decoration:
fresh basil
olive oil
1. Pour off the liquids from the olives and capers. Grease a large baking dish with oil and pour the gnocchi, arrabbia sauce, cherry tomatoes, olives and capers into it. Sprinkle a little thyme and a hint of chili flakes on top. Stir.
2. Finally, tear mozzarella on top. Bake in the oven at 220 degrees for about 35 minutes and let it rest for 10 minutes before serving.
3. Garnish with fresh basil and olive oil (grated parmesan is also not a bad idea).