5-Ingredients: Beer Bread & Gnocchi Soup

These recipes are both super easy to make, require very few ingredients, and will warm you up in this dreary weather!

This beer bread is simply foolproof and comes together FAST- no need for rising, punching or kneading.

The gnocchi soup uses ingredients very similar to Gina’s Italian recipes from October, so you can put your leftover items to good use.

(OK- so they have 6 ingredients if you count salt or water.)

Beer Bread

Food.com- I used whole wheat flour and 1554 beer.  Delicious!

Ingredients:

3 cups flour (sifted***)

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

 ¼ cup sugar

1 (12 ounce) can/bottle of beer

¼ cup melted butter

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Mix dry ingredients and beer.  Pour into a greased loaf pan.  Pour melted butter over the top.  Bake 45 minutes to 1 hour.

***If you are not a sifter (I am not!) do the following: lightly spoon the flour into your measuring cup, and then gently level it off using the flat part of a knife.   DO NOT SCOOP the flour up with the measuring cup- it will pack the flour in, and result in a brick-like loaf.

Turkey Sausage-Gnocchi Soup

From Cooking Light- Fresh Food Fast

1 (4.5 ounce) link hot turkey Italian sausage

2 cups water

1 (16 ounce) package vacuum-packed gnocchi

1 (14 ounce) can fat-free, low sodium beef broth

1 (14.5 ounce) can Italian style stewed tomatoes, undrained and chopped

Grated Parmesan cheese

Remove casing from sausage.  Cook in large Dutch oven or pot over medium high heat until browned, stirring to crumble.

Add 2 cups water and next 3 ingredients to pan; bring to a boil.  Reduce heat, and simmer 4 to 5 minutes, or until gnocchi float to the top of pan.   Serve sprinkled with cheese.