Sunday, 10 March 2013

Gnocchi

Making gnocchi is an incredibly easy task. All it really involves is, making mashed potato's, adding one egg, adding flour to the potato, and mixing it in until it is a dough. usually when I make gnocchi at home I don't follow a recipe, I just mix in flour to the potato's until it feels like a good consistency and they usually turn out perfect.
So after making the dough we rolled it into long rolls and sliced the rolls into bouncy ball sliced pieces. Then we took a fork and pushed it in the pieces leaving an imprint of the fork.Once we finished that we boiled them in a pot until they floated to the top. When we took them out, I put them in a bowl and I poured some olive oil and and salt on them. they tasted exquisite, I couldn't Imagine them tasting any better with tomato sauce then they already did.
Then we made the sauce for them, we fried up unions with garlic, then added tomato paste and canned tomato chunks as well. After cooking the sauce for a bit we blended it, Then we put it back on the stove to heat it up again. when it was done we put it on the Gnocchi's and tried them. Surprisingly it wasn't as good as I suspected it would be, but it was still good.
I would defiantly make the gnocchi again but not the sauce.

















This is not a picture of me making them.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for your post. I'm delighted that you liked the gnocchi. I suspect that you would like a tomato sauce made with fresh tomatoes a lot better.
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