26 Aug Easy Homemade potato gnocchi
if you are looking to experiment with homemade pasta, the easy way is to start with potato gnocchi, You need a few ingredients and you’re ready to shine in the kitchen with this incredible recipe.
You need a few ingredients to achieve the recipe; Potatoes, egg yolks, flour and salt. As easy as that, can you believe it. In the end, you can cook them and eat as simple as some butter and parmesan cheese or you can pair them with your favourite bolognese sauce. It could be your main dish or also be a fantastic side dish for a really juice meat or roast.
The good thing is that you can make them ahead and freeze them for up to 3 months and just cook them directly frozen. So are a perfect dinner saver. So maybe today will be extra work to do them, but you can save some time another day you use the extra ones.
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Easy Homemade potato gnocchi
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 60 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 2 1x
Description
An easy homemade pasta that will pair with any sauce that you want. We love the pillowy sensation in the mouth when you eat one of these gnocchi. Please try this gnocchi and let us know if you agree or disagree with us.
Ingredients
- 3 potatoes
- 1 egg yolk
- 3/4 cup of flour
- 1 teaspoon of salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 180ºC. Pinch the potatoes with a fork to let the heat pass-thru. Bake the for 1 hour or until they are done.
- Peel the potatoes and mash them with a potato press. If you want a thinner consistency you have to go thru a strainer after you mash the potato.
- Mix the potatoes with the egg yolk, flour and salt. work with your hand to have a nice consistency that is not sticky in your hands. Flour the surface and roll the dough into 2 cm diameter logs. Cut 2 cm pieces and continue with all the log. Roll each piece into a ball and roll it over a floured fork to make some marks (that will help to stick the sauce into them) Let them rest in a baking tray with floured parchment paper. Continue with all the dough until you finish.
- to cook the gnocchi bring to boil a saucepan with water. As soon it begins to boil salt the water and pour all the gnocchi and cook them until they rise into the surface and strain the with a spoon and reserve.
- Serve them with your favourite sauce or just with some butter or olive oil and parmesan cheese. Sometimes the most simple dishes are the best.
Keywords: gnocchi, homemade pasta
Hi! I’m Valeria (aka Val) the photographer and recipe developer behind Canguro Criollo. My passion for food began when I was little at my home when everything will revolve around food and now I discover this new creative outlet of food photography. I wish you can follow my journey discovering unique ways of preparing Peruvian food abroad and some other family-friendly foods.
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