Description
Hearty vegan stew Italian style featuring gnocchi dumplings, meaty jackfruit, peas and carrots and a thick alcohol-free red wine gravy. No beef, one pot comforting stew that checks all the boxes. Rich, savory and whole foods plant based recipe.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 yellow onion (diced)
- 2 carrots (sliced into rounds)
- 3 cloves garlic (minced)
- 2 lb jackfruit pieces (rinsed well)
- 1 lb gnocchi (Italian potato dumplings)
- 1 cup fresh tomatoes (diced)
- 3/4 cup frozen green peas (thawed out and rinsed)
- 8 sprigs fresh thyme
- 3 whole cloves
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tbsp smoked paprika
- 1/3 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/3 cup fresh Italian parsley (roughly chopped)
- 6 cups vegetable stock (low sodium)
- 1/3 cup alcohol-free red wine
- sea salt + black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Step: Preheat a heavy bottom dutch oven over medium low heat and sautee the onion and carrot in a drop of oil or a splash of water until the onion is translucent.
- Step: Stir in the garlic and cook a few seconds until fragrant.
- Step: Add the jackfruit pieces, thyme, bay and the alcohol-free red wine. Simmer until the wine is almost evaporated.
- Step: Whisk the flour with the vegetable stock until combined and add it to the pot with the jackfruit. Bring to a simmer and stir in the paprika and cloves.
- Step: Cook everything together for 45 minutes until the jackfruit is fork tender.
- Step: Stir in the gnocchi, tomatoes and green peas and cook a few extra minutes until the gnocchi float to the top and the green peas are cooked through to your liking.
- Step: Discard the thyme sprigs and whole cloves and season the stew to your taste with sea salt and black pepper.
- Step: Stir in the fresh parsley and serve!
Notes
You can use about 1 pound of diced golden potatoes instead of gnocchi or any homemade dumplings. The leftovers keep well in the fridge up to 4 days or frozen up to 4 months. For a WFPB version, omit oil and use whole grain gnocchi.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 60 minutes
- Category: Main Course
- Method: Stewing
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 508 kcal
- Sugar: 6 g
- Sodium: 458 mg
- Fat: 2 g
- Saturated Fat: 1 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 1 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 116 g
- Fiber: 10 g
- Protein: 10 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
Keywords: jackfruit, meatless stew, vegan stew