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Gnocchi with bacon, pesto and green beans


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  • Author: Pip Payne
  • Total Time: 20 minutes
  • Yield: 4 1x

Description

A very tasty meal with quick to grab ingredients for a last-minute weekday dinner

Syns: 3 per portion


Ingredients

Scale
  • 500 g gnocchi
  • 4 rashers smoked back bacon (fat removed)
  • 1 tbsp green pesto
  • 200 g approx green beans
  • 1 tsp red chilli flakes
  • rocket salad (optional)
  • low calorie cooking spray


Instructions

  1. Cut the bacon into small pieces, and fry in low calorie cooking spray until crispy
  2. Cook the gnocchi according to packet instructions, when there is 3 minutes of cooking time left, add the green beans into the pan with the gnocchi
  3. Drain the gnocchi and green beans, the stir in the bacon pieces, pesto and dried chilli
  4. Serve with rocket salad

Notes

Pine-nuts are also lovely fried in with the bacon- you can use these as Healthy extra B. Also lovely with parmesan on top if you haven’t used your healthy extra A.

  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes