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Spring is one of my favorite seasons for so many reasons, including Easter and Mother’s Day brunches. I absolutely love any excuse for a good brunch! Today, I’m observing Frozen Food Month by sharing my cauliflower gnocchi brunch skillet recipe which celebrates veggies in a fun, delicious new way!
Green Giant® has introduced a clever product that lets me add more vegetables into my breakfast and brunch dishes with Green Giant® Cauliflower Gnocchi & Green Giant® Veggie Hash Browns.
As I’m always seeking ways to incorporate more farm fresh veggie goodness into our daily meals, I’m truly delighted with both these new products. They not only taste great, they are made with real cauliflower and contain a full serving of vegetables in each serving. If you happen to have picky eaters in your family, it’s an ideal way to swap-in more veggies without sacrificing taste.
Green Giant® Cauliflower Gnocchi
When I picked up the package of Green Giant® Cauliflower Gnocchi Original, I immediately knew I wanted to try using it in my traditional gnocchi skillet that I often make for brunch. It’s a quick, easy and savory dish that’s great for breakfast, brunch or even those times when you’re in the mood for traditional breakfast fare at dinnertime.
While I use pork sausage in my recipe, you could even go full-on-veggie and swap in vegetable sausage crumbles, instead.
If you want a heartier meal with more veggie power, use Green Giant® Veggie Hash Browns Cauliflower for your side dish. Below you’ll find directions for adding a little flair to your hash browns with sour cream, scallions, and even a little bit of bacon, if preferred.
Together these two dishes will make your brunch time a delectable treat!
Green Giant® also offers Gnocchi with Cauliflower & Spinach and Hash Browns with Cauliflower and Broccoli. I’m looking forward to trying these varieties next.
After you print the recipes for your use, be sure to scroll down for some special giveaways. Hope you enjoy sharing my Cauliflower Gnocchi Brunch Skillet with your friend and family and truly enjoy the extra veggie love in eat bite!
Cauliflower Gnocchi Brunch Skillet
Ingredients
2 packages Green Giant® Cauliflower Gnocchi Original
8 ounces of breakfast pork sausage (alternatively, may use veggie sausage crumbles)
1/2 cup tomatoes, diced
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
2 cloves garlic, diced
1/2 cup Asiago cheese, shredded
2 Tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
2 Tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
Preheat oven to broil.
In a small bowl, toss tomatoes, a drizzle of olive oil and Italian seasoning until seasoning is fully distributed. Set aside.
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to boil.
In a large skillet, crumble and cook pork sausage. Cook and stir until fully browned and cooked to safe USDA standards. Remove sausage from pan, set aside. Wipe pan clean, set aside.
Add Green Giant® Cauliflower Gnocchi Original to boiling water and cook per manufacturer’s instructions (currently 2 minutes).
While Gnocchi is cooking, preheat large skillet over medium heat with extra-virgin olive oil.
Add garlic to skillet.
Drain gnocchi and add to skillet. Cook per manufacturer’s package instructions (currently 5 minutes).
Add sausage crumbles, tomatoes and 1 Tablespoon parsley. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring gently to fully incorporate ingredients.
Remove from heat.
Sprinkle Asiago cheese over skillet. Place skillet into oven. Broil for 2-3 minutes or until cheese is melted and lightly browned.
Remove from oven. Sprinkle remaining parsley over the cheese. Serve and enjoy!
Ingredients
- 2 packages Green Giant® Cauliflower Gnocchi Original
- 8 ounces of breakfast pork sausage (alternatively, may use veggie sausage crumbles)
- 1/2 cup tomatoes, diced
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 2 cloves garlic, diced
- 1/2 cup Asiago cheese, shredded
- 2 Tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
- 2 Tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to broil.
- In a small bowl, toss tomatoes, a drizzle of olive oil and Italian seasoning until seasoning is fully distributed. Set aside.
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to boil.
- In a large skillet, crumble and cook pork sausage. Cook and stir until fully browned and cooked to safe USDA standards. Remove sausage from pan, set aside. Wipe pan clean, set aside.
- Add Green Giant® Cauliflower Gnocchi Original to boiling water and cook per manufacturer’s instructions (currently 5 minutes).
- While Gnocchi is cooking, preheat large skillet over medium heat with extra-virgin olive oil.
- Add garlic to skillet.
- Drain gnocchi and add to skillet. Cook per manufacturer’s package instructions ( ).
- Add sausage crumbles, tomatoes and 1 Tablespoon parsley. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring gently to fully incorporate ingredients.
- Remove from heat.
- Sprinkle Asiago cheese over skillet. Place skillet into oven. Broil for 2-3 minutes or until cheese is melted and lightly browned.
- Remove from oven. Sprinkle remaining parsley over the cheese. Serve and enjoy!
Notes
A great side dish for this recipe is:
Cauliflower Hash Browns with Sour Cream and Scallions
1 package Green Giant® Veggie Hash Browns Cauliflower 1/4 cup sour cream 1 Tablespoon scallions, sliced thin (alternatively, may use chives)
Optional: 3 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled (alternatively, use turkey or veggie bacon)
Cook and crumble bacon slices.
Using air fryer (or other preferred method,) prepare Green Giant® Veggie Hash Browns Cauliflower according to manufacturer’s package instruction.
On a small serving platter, plate sour cream on one end or near the center edge (as illustrated.) Line hash browns on plate alongside or around sour cream dollop.
Sprinkle scallions (and optionally, bacon crumbles) over the sour cream. Serve and enjoy!
Cauliflower Hash Browns with Sour Cream and Scallions
1 package Green Giant® Veggie Hash Browns Cauliflower
1/4 cup sour cream
1 Tablespoon scallions, sliced thin (alternatively, may use chives)
Optional: 3 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled (alternatively, use turkey or veggie bacon)
Cook and crumble bacon slices.
Using air fryer (or other preferred method,) prepare Green Giant® Veggie Hash Browns Cauliflower according to manufacturer’s package instruction.
On a small serving platter, plate sour cream on one end or near the center edge (as illustrated.) Line hash browns on plate alongside or around sour cream dollop.
Sprinkle scallions (and optionally, bacon crumbles) over the sour cream. Serve and enjoy!
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I love the cauliflower hash brown and think they would be great added with garden peas and orange bell peppers.
Yum, that sounds like a delicious combo! The hash browns are terrific. They are even a great toast substitute for like Avocado toast.
We bought an air fryer last year and we use it to cook hashbrowns regularly. We don’t really do anything special with them. They are usually just a side dish or are shredded and put inside breakfast taquitos. I think we would probably use these in much the same way.
Aren’t air fryers wonderful? We use our regularly, too and these cauliflower hash browns turn out perfect in the air fryer. Yum to breakfast taquitos, sounds delicious!
I would add bacon, roasted red peppers, onion and cheddar cheese to the Green Giant Cauliflower Gnocchi.
That sounds like a delightful skillet! Will have to try that combo next!
casserole with cheese
Great idea!
Both the gnocchi and the hash browns look delicious — I’ll definitely keep an eye out for them at the grocery store!
They both are, for sure! We were surprised how good they are and you really don’t realize they are made with cauliflower as a primary ingredient at all. Let me know what you think when you get the chance to try them!
I would love to use the cauliflower gnocci in a gnocci bake with cheese and tomato sauce
That sounds really nummy!
I would make the Cauliflower Gnocchi Brunch skillet for my family.
I’d make the hash brown skillet for my family. It looks delish!
Think you all would truly enjoy it. I’m very impressed with these products!
I’d love to make Cheesy Cauliflower Hashbrown Casserole with it.
I think the gnocchi with a spinach/mushroom sauce topped with shaved parm would be delicious. 🙂 And, of course, garlic bread!
I would love to try the gnocchi. I have never had gnocchi but it sounds good. I am looking to find healthier options for my family and this sounds like a good addition to the dinner table.
I want to make the cauliflower gnocci and add a lemon alfredo sauce and peas. 🙂
I would love Cauliflower hash browns with my morning breaksfast!
For breakfast, I would probably just cut small pieces of the Cauliflower Hash Browns to my scrambled eggs, add onion & enjoy!
I would love to try Cauliflower Gnocchi Brunch Skillet. It looks yummy.
I would make a hash brown casserole
I would add cheese, onions and peppers to the cauliflower. Mmmmm
I would love to make the Cauliflower Hash Browns with Sour Cream and Scallions it looks delish
I would add a sauteed pepper and onion mix along with sauce and mozzarella cheese to the gnocchi for a delicious meal.
I would make gnocchi with pomodoro sauce.
I would lunch to try the brunch skillet. My fam would love that.
The gnocchi would be great with a homemade marinara sauce.
Green Giant Cauliflower Gnocchi melted cheese, and bacon.
We actually have Green Giant cauliflower gnocchi in our freezer. I bought it when it was bogo at Publix. I’ve been pondering what to do with it and enjoyed looking at the Green Giant recipes. I think we will make Cauliflower Gnocchi with Pancetta and Peas! It sounds really good.
Sounds super delicious ! and a great easy meal to prepare when you come home from a 24hr hospital shift 🙂
I would like to make a egg and hashbrown and sausage casserole.
I would make a breakfast casserole!
I would love to try cauliflower gnocchi brunch skillet.
Cauliflower Hash Browns with Sour Cream and Scallions
the hashbrown casserole
I would do the hashbrown casserole
I would make hashbrown casserole
cant wait to try the hasbrowns
A egg scramble!
I LOVE hash browns, so I’d use that to make a casserole with some meat and eggs
I would make the Olive Garden Nocci soup
I wonder what it would taste like with my scramble egg bake?, sounds good.
This recipe looks so good i could sneak it to my kids and they would never know
I would love to make hash brown casserole. One of my favorite dishes.
I would make a hash brown casserole, I think the kids would like it.
The Cauliflower Gnocchi Brunch Skillet looks delicious. I would add onions and green and red peppers to it.
This would be amazing with omelets and pancakes.
I would make a Cowboy Casserole with the Hash Browns!
i would love to make some hash browns with cheese and onions
My family loves hash browns so the hash brown casserole would be perfect for us to make.
I think the Cauliflower hash browns I would try, but both recipes look good!
I would take out the tator tot’s in my hamburger casserole and substitute Califlower Gnocchi in it’s place.
Veggie loaded cauliflower hash browns w/ vegan cheese sounds wonderful to me!
Would love a loaded hashbrown casserole w/ cauliflower hashbrowns!
I would love to try it in a breakfast casserole
The Cauliflower Gnocchi Brunch Skillet looks too good! I must make it once!
Cauliflower hash browns as a crust for quiche sounds interesting.
I would love to try the gnocchi with some marinara sauce and some mozzarella cheese and some basil.
Cauliflower hash browns to make a cheesy quiche.
I would make creamed squash.
This sounds delicious! We will definitely have to try it! Thanks for sharing
I would make that hash brown skillet and I would add eggs and cheddar cheese
Cauliflower Gnocchi Brunch Skillet sounds great. Serves one, right?
I would use the Cauliflower hash brown in an omelet with peppers and cheese Rosanne
Green Giant® Cauliflower Gnocchi
I would make some kind of bake! Thanks so much for the chances to win.
Omelet! YUMM!!
Love cauliflower. The recipe looks delish!
I would make chili cheese gnocchi..yummy 🙂
A casserole with broccoli and cheese.
I would make green Chile cheese hash browns.
I would like to create a hamburger hotdish using this product.
I would make a Hashbrown casserole