Gnocchi with Sauce | Sausage, Wine and Sage - Dishes Delish (2024)

This gnocchi with sauce recipe is made with pillowy soft gnocchi coated in a wine butter sauce with sausage and sage. Ready in just 30 minutes, this easy and delicious gnocchi dish is the ultimate weeknight dinner.

Anyone who knows me, knows I love gnocchi – either made with ricotta like this recipe or potato gnocchi. A few weeks ago, I reposted my how to make gnocchi post. Readers asked me for a gnocchi in a sage sauce recipe. And so I did.

Imagine sticking your fork in a few of these pillows of happiness (aka, gnocchi), twirling them around in the wine, butter and sage sauce and bringing the fork up to your face to place the gnocchi lovingly in your mouth!

You bite down on these soft little pillows and the taste explosion that happens in your mouth makes life worth living.

Why this recipe is so good:

1. Homemade gnocchi.
2. Delicious sausages.
3. The flavors of the wine mixed with butter and sage, makes the best sauce.

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Helpful tips

• You can make the gnocchi well before you start the recipe. If you make it the same day, you can put a jelly roll pan filled with the gnocchi in the fridge or freezer until you need them.
• If you make the gnocchi days prior, first add the gnocchi as you make it to a jelly roll pan and place in the freezer for at least a half hour. Next, add the frozen gnocchi to a gallon sized bag and place the bag in the freezer. The gnocchi won’t stick together. Then you take them out right before you need them.
• Next comes the gnocchi and you won’t need a lot of water to cook the gnocchi – I say around 3 – 4 cups in your medium stockpot.
• Once the water has come to a boil, carefully add the gnocchi to the water, stir and within 5 minutes, the gnocchi will float to the top of the water. Fish them out as they bob to the surface and place them in a bowl.
• Use butter in this recipe and NOT margarine.
• You can find fresh sage in the produce section. They come in little plastic containers. Want a little extra flavor, add some fresh herbs when you serve it like, fresh basil or parsley.

How to make gnocchi with sauce

Pre-step

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. If you’re going to make your gnocchi fresh, now’s the time to do it. See how to make them here.

The ingredients you’ll need for the gnocchi are ricotta, flour, salt, and parmesan cheese.

Step one

Line a small jelly roll pan with foil, place the sausages on the pan and bake for 25 minutes. Turn them once at 10 minutes.

Step two

Fifteen minutes before the sausages are done, set 3 – 4 inches of water and kosher salt in a pot on to boil and make your gnocchi.

Set the gnocchi aside until you finish cooking the vegetables.

Step three

Chop the onions and heat a wok or sauté pan on medium high heat. Once the pan heats up, add extra virgin olive oil.

Step four

Add the onion to the pan and sauté for 8 minutes. Add garlic and sauté for another minute.

Step five

Add butter, broth, wine and sage. Stir until the butter melts.

Step six

Meanwhile, when the water comes to a boil, add the pasta to the water, stir and once the gnocchi float, fish the cooked gnocchi out with a hand strainer. Add to the wok with the vegetables.

Step seven

By now the sausages are done.

Step eight

Cut the sausage in slices and add to the wok with the gnocchi.

Stir the mixture until all the gnocchi are coated with the sauce.

Mmmmmmm! Time to plate the gnocchi for Christopher and me. I add some fresh ground black pepper on mine and shave some parmesan cheese on top of both of our food.

Time to serve it. Christopher cries with happiness and I sob alongside him.

I hope you enjoyed this gnocchi with sauce recipe!

Other popular pasta dishes

• Gnocchi with pancetta and spinach
• Gnocchi mac and cheese
• Carbonara

And as always, may all your dishes be delish!

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