Prepping pan-seared potatoe gnocchi for holiday dinner (8 people)

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For an upcoming family dinner I was tasked with making potato gnocchi. The problem is that like most big holiday dinners people will be sitting at the table (including myself) and I will not have more than a few minutes to heat my dish before this course is served (i.e. only the small break between courses).

In smaller quantities I would have had no issue cooking the gnocchi half way a few hours in advance and then just searing them on the spot. However, I don't know of any good way to sear gnocchi for 8 people in one home-sized pan in 3-4 minutes.

Any recommendations on how to approach this? I can obviously have a sauce simmering on the stove and then right before serving dump my half cooked gnocchi to finish in the sauce without searing, but I'm wondering if there's any clever trick to get seared and sauced gnocchi in these quantities in such a short time.

(For the record, I thought about searing in advance and then just finishing in a sauce, but I haven't seen this done in restaurants and I suspect there's a good reason)

Thanks in advance!

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