Pork & Potato Gnocchi Potjie Soup

Halfway between soup and stew and packed full of tasty flavour and wholesome goodness!

Ingredients:

500g uncooked pork sausage (not eskort! real pork sausages)
1 tbsp olive oil
2 medium onions – diced
3 large carrots – chopped
3 stalks celery – diced
1 red pepper – deseeded and chopped
1 yellow pepper – deseeded and chopped
5 cloves garlic – crushed
1 cup red wine
1 lt chicken stock
1 tin tomato puree
1 tin chopped tomato
1 tbsp Italian herbs
1 tsp chilli flakes
300 g potato gnocchi (see link below if you’d like to make your own)
2 large handfuls spinach – roughly chopped
parmesan
parsley – chopped

Method

Pack 15 briquettes onto the coal grid inside your PotjieKing. Put a couple of firelighters into the bottom section and get that going. Once the coals are ready, place your no 3 round bottom potjie pot onto the PotjieKing to heat up.

Pour the oil into the potjie pot to heat up.
Squeeze small balls of pork out of the sausage casing and place into the oil
Fry the sausages for a couple of minutes until they have browned a bit.
Remove the sausage using a slotted spoon. Leave the oil in for frying the veg.
Add the onions and fry for another 5 minutes.
Add the carrots, celery and garlic and fry for 10 minutes or so.
Pour the wine in and deglaze the potjie – the wine will help lift all the tastyness off the bottom of the pot.
Add in the stock, tins of tomato, Italian herbs and pepper flakes.
Allow to cook, with the lid on, until veggies are tender (15 to 20 min)
Add the pork balls back in, along with the spinach. Give it a little stir.
Drop the gnocchi in and make sure they are all covered.
Put the lid onto the potjie and cook for an additional 5 minutes – with store-bought Gnocchi, or 10 minutes if you have made your own. I found that my homemade Gnocchi needed more cooking time than the store-bought stuff.
Test the Gnocchi and once it is cooked you are ready to serve!
Garnish with parmesan and parsley