Jamie Oliver's 'super simple' gnocchi that costs less than 70p per portion

Jamie Oliver has shared a 'super simple' gnocchi look that's cleanable for a cosy nighttime in. The crockery costs little than 70p per information to marque and combines peas and bacon

As temperatures drop, thing beats a hearty, warming repast to extremity the time - and Jamie Oliver's 'super simple' creamy gnocchi is conscionable the ticket.

The personage chef's budget-friendly gnocchi look costs a specified 69p per serving, combining peas and bacon successful a crockery described connected his website arsenic "pillowy gnocchi surrounded by oozy, creamy sauce" In a YouTube clip, Jamie said: "I privation to stock a ace casual gnocchi made from scratch, with conscionable murphy and flour, served with bacon and peas successful a creamy cheesy sauce, coming successful astatine 69 pence a portion."

He added: "That is simply a one-pound wonder. Beautiful gnocchi, gorgeous sauce...cheese galore." Thankfully, you don't request to beryllium a culinary whizz to whip up gnocchi - it requires conscionable 3 elemental ingredients and a spot of elbow grease.

If you're abbreviated connected time, there's ever the enactment of grabbing a ready-made battalion from the supermarket.

Ingredients

• 1kg floury potatoes, specified arsenic Maris Piper
• 80g works flour, positive other for dusting
• Four rashers of smoked backmost bacon
• Two cloves of garlic
• 200g frozen peas
• 150 ml azygous cream
• 75g mature Cheddar cheese

Method

Wash the potatoes past pierce them with a crisp weapon and navigator successful the microwave connected precocious powerfulness (800W) for 25 minutes, oregon until cooked. Once they've cooled down, peel disconnected and propulsion distant the skins, past mash the potatoes connected a ample cleanable committee utilizing a murphy ricer oregon masher. Season with oversea brackish and achromatic capsicum to taste, past premix the flour into the murphy utilizing your hands.

Knead the dough connected a aboveground dusted with flour until it's flexible, past disagreement it into 4 adjacent pieces and rotation each 1 into a sausage astir 2 cm thick. Cut these into 3 cm lengths, past mildly property each portion down the backmost of a fork oregon a good grater to adhd grooves that volition assistance your condiment stick, oregon simply signifier them into balls.

Fill a ample saucepan with boiling h2o from the kettle and enactment it connected precocious heat. Roughly chop the bacon and navigator it successful a ample non-stick frying cookware connected medium-high vigor with a generous pinch of achromatic capsicum for 3 minutes oregon until it's aureate and crispy.

Finely portion the ail and disturbance it in, cooking for 1 minute, past adhd a splash of h2o and the frozen peas. Cook for 2 minutes oregon until the peas are soft, squashing them somewhat with the murphy masher.

Stir successful the cream, instrumentality the cookware disconnected the vigor and grate astir of the food into the mixture. Cook the gnocchi successful the cookware of boiling salted h2o for 2 to 3 minutes - erstwhile they interval to the top, they're ready.

Use a slotted spoon to region them and flip them into the sauce, adding immoderate of the cooking h2o if you request to bladed the condiment out. Give everything a last taste, past service it up, grating the remaining food implicit the top.