I need a vegan sauce to go with gnocchi?

[~Phoenix~]

Gnocchi Puttanesca - you can ditch the anchovies for some extra chillies etc & pinenuts as a cheese substitute.

Ingredients (serves 4)
2 tbs olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, crushed
5 anchovy fillets, chopped
1 small red chilli, seeded, finely chopped
1/2 cup (125ml) dry white wine
800g canned chopped tomatoes
1 bay leaf
1 tbs baby capers, rinsed
100g small pitted black olives
800g potato gnocchi
1 tbs chopped flat-leaf parsley
Grated parmesan, to serve
Method
Heat the olive oil in a deep frypan over low heat, add the chopped onion, crushed garlic, anchovy fillets and chilli and cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes until the onion has softened and the anchovies have dissolved. Add the white wine, chopped tomato, bay leaf and rinsed capers, then cook for a further 5-6 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sauce is slightly thickened. Season - remembering that the anchovies, capers and olives are all quite salty - then stir in the olives.
Towards the end of the sauce cooking time, cook the potato gnocchi in a large pan of boiling salted water according to the packet instructions, then drain.
Add the gnocchi and the flat-leaf parsley to the sauce and toss well.
Serve the gnocchi sprinkled with grated parmesan.


Whenever we've made gnocchi at home (italian family) we usually just have it with a basic tomato based napolitana type sauce, with chilli added

[LimeSlice]

Don't forget you can use coconut milk in place of cream or milk to make a white based sauce...roasted curry pumkin is one of our fav's with gnocchi

[Janie]

And if you want a REALLY easy, cheat's tomato sauce, try this

Heat some olive oil in a pan......add a whole clove of garlic.........when you can smell the garlic add 400g crushed tinned tomatoes........add some salt..........simmer for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

It's great when you need a sauce REALLY quickly, and don't like using packet ones

[luna moth]

For next time, if you want a decadent creamy pasta sauce (not the best with gnocchi, but brilliant with fettucine) do my vegan white sauce:
Simmer 1 cup water with 1 tsp Massel stock powder (or 1 cube - chicken best)
Add 1/2 tub Tofutti Better than Cream Cheese (availabel at woolies and now some coles)
Stir until tofutti is as dissolved as you can get it.
Remove from heat, make up a cornflour slurry (about 2tsp cornflour in athick paste with water)
Dump slurry into mix, stir like mad.
return to heat, until it bubbles up.

This is an amazing sauce, works brilliantly on lasagne, or with pasta and say, cauliflower, or anything else you would put with a white sauce. (Peas, mushrooms and vegie bacon is another fave at our place)
It's real comfort food, and I would highly recommend you give this a go for her one time - once I learned how to do this sauce, it was a real staple. Helps me to not miss dairy so much, so I know it would be good for her.

Good luck!

[Bathsheba]

Fantastic tip Snugglybean! I'll be trying that one! I really should cut down on my dairy... don't have an allergy... but I suspect my skin would be better. I think I tend to break out when I overdo dairy.

[christy]

I do a pumpkin/tofu sauce...

Roast 1/2 butternut pumpkin in olive oil
In the last 5 minutes, add 2 tbsp of pine nuts and 2 cloves garlic

In a blender, put the roasted pumpkin, pine nuts, garlic and 125gm silken tofu. Blend up and add 2 tbsp olive oil. Serve over pasta with some sage leaves on top. Numm