Gluten free gnocchi recipe – this 4 ingredient recipe has pumpkin gnocchi served with vegan basil pesto, oven roasted broccoli, brussels sprouts and pumpkin seeds. Perfect winter dinner.

Gluten free gnocchi recipe – love it or hate it? I used to be the ultimate gnocchi hater. Thick potato based dough dumplings that always seemed overly dry and mushy. The kind of food that sticks to the roof of your mouth and requires serious concentration or extra tools to me removed. No thanks.

But everybody else loves them, and raves about them. Was I missing something?

Yes indeed. I just need to make my own batch of pumpkin gnocchi to fall in love with these bite sized, pillowy, soft and doughy dumplings.

Move aside potato – today, we’re making a vegan and gluten free gnocchi recipe using pumpkin. Instead of cheese and eggs we’re using a chia egg and nutritional yeast in this gluten free gnocchi recipe for that same binding and cheesey effect. For an extra kick of flavor pumpkin puree is used in place of potato, and for a gluten-free version a gluten-free flour blend is used.

These four ingredients just need to be mixed together, formed into a ball, rolled out into thin slivers of dough and then cut into one inch segments. With the back of your fork you can also push down a bit to create those famed gnocchi lines.

These pumpkin gnocchi are then tossed into boiling water for just a couple minutes, and then lightly pan fried in olive oil. In this gluten free gnocchi recipe, the pan frying is optional but I kind of loved the lightly crisped up exterior, giving way to the super soft and doughy inside.

I have also come up with the best sauce ever for the pumpkin gnocchi in this gluten free gnocchi recipe. Think vegan basil pesto (home made of course), oven roasted broccoli & brussels sprouts, and toasted pumpkin seeds.

The flavor combination in this gluten free gnocchi recipe is to die for. Oven roasted broccoli might be my all time favorite roasted vegetable with roasted Brussels sprouts coming in at a close second.

And pumpkin seeds do not get nearly as much attention on the dinner plate as they should. Pesto though, you know is always close to my heart.

This gluten free gnocchi recipe was hands down one of my mom’s favorite dishes. She love love loved this pumpkin gnocchi vegan and gluten free recipe especially with the pesto, roasted veggie and pumpkin seed sauce. You have those soft doughy gnocchi, enveloped in a fragrant and herbal basil pesto with lightly charred roasted veggies and the crunch of toasted pumpkin seeds. All the flavors you could ever want in one bite. A perfect hearty winter meal.

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This gluten free gnocchi recipe would be perfect served with a side of:

How to make gluten free gnocchi recipe with pumpkin