Gnocchi with Radishes, Walnuts & Creamy Roquefort Sauce

Gnocchi with Roquefort Sauce

This gnocchi side dish is so decadent.  I love the flavor combination of blue cheese, peppery radishes and buttery walnuts–a great combo of items for a simple appetizer plate, but even better when you combine them in this way into a hearty gnocchi side dish.  I toss tender cooked potato dumplings together with cooked, quartered radishes, crunchy walnuts, and a creamy blue cheese sauce made simply with Roquefort cheese and a touch of half and half.  The cheese melts beautifully into the warm cream and coats each and every bite of this side dish with its inherent decadence.  A snip of fresh chives adds a nice green ‘pop’ of color to the dish as well.

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Gnocchi with Radishes, Walnuts & Creamy Roquefort Sauce

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  • Yield: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
  • Recipe type: Side dish

Ingredients:

  • 1 package of store-bought gnocchi
  • 2 shallots, thinly sliced
  • 1 Tablespoon olive oil
  • Salt and pepper
  • 2 bunches of radishes, stems trimmed and radishes quartered
  • ¼ cup dry white wine
  • ½ cup half and half
  • 4 oz. Roquefort cheese, room temperature (any blue cheese would work well here*)
  • Fresh chives, snipped

Directions:

  1. Cook the gnocchi according to package directions. Drain and set aside in a large mixing bowl.
  2. In the meantime, heat the olive oil in a saucepan and add in the shallots and radishes. Sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper and saute, over medium heat, for 5 minutes. Add in the white wine and reduce the heat to medium-low. Allow the radishes to get tender in the white wine (this will take about 5 more minutes) and then reduce the the heat to low.
  3. Stir in the half and half and crumbled blue cheese. Stirring constantly, allow the cheese to melt completely into the liquid. Adjust seasonings if necessary; toss the gnocchi with the sauce and the snipped, fresh chives. Serve warm or room temperature.

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