Saturday Night: Gnocchi with Leeks, Zucchini, and Bacon

Some random event gave me a gnocchi craving yesterday. Since I'd been wanting for a while to try sauteing gnocchi after they were cooked (Bratgnocchi?), I decided to satisfy the craving and the curiosity simultaneously.

Here's what I did (serves 2 as a main dish):

For the gnocchi:
400g gnocchi
olive oil

Cook the gnocchi in boiling salted water until they rise to the top of the water. Drain them well.
Heat a couple Tbs olive oil in a non-stick pan over medium-high heat. Add the drained gnocchi and a pinch of salt and cook, tossing infrequently, until the gnocchi are golden brown and crispy on the outside.

For the sauce/topping:
100g bulk smoked bacon, cut into lardons
olive oil
1 small zucchini, quartered and "diced"
1 leek, halved and thinly sliced

Cook the bacon in some olive oil over medium heat until it has rendered some fat and is nicely browned. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside on paper towels.
Add the diced zucchini, raise the heat to medium high, sprinkle with a bit of salt, and cook until it softens some and starts to brown. remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
Pour off most of the fat from the pan.
Add the leek, sprinkle with salt, and cook, stirring frequently, until it softens and starts to brown.
Just before serving, add back the zucchini and lardons, grind in some pepper, and heat through.

Serve the sauce over the gnocchi and top everything with chopped parsley.

This was a very nice, and relatively fast, meal.

We also had the standard green salad.