Brown Butter Gnocchi with Spinach and Pine Nuts Recipe

pine nuts

🥗Healthier: walnuts

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Walnuts provide healthy fats and are more affordable than pine nuts.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast offers a cheesy flavor with fewer calories.

Heat butter in a large skillet.

Add pine nuts and cook for about 3 minutes or until they're lightly toasted.

When the pine nuts become fragrant, add garlic and sauté for about a minute.

Next, add spinach and cook until it wilts.

When the spinach is wilted, add cooked gnocchi to the mixture and mix all of this together.

Add salt, pepper, and parmesan cheese.

Sprinkle the finished dish with a little bit more parmesan and top with fresh ground pepper.

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