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Potato Gnocchi Recipe

Potato gnocchi, a super delicious first course to prepare at home. Step by step recipe.

Prep Time
1 hr
Cook Time
mins
Total Time
5 mins
Servings: 4 portions
Calories: 432 kcal
Course: Others
Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients

  • 1 kg of potatoes yellow skin and white paste or red skin and yellow paste
  • 200 g of Wheat flour type 00
  • 1 egg
  • 2 Pinches of salt

Instructions

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  1. Wash potatoes under running water.
  2. Boil potatoes in salted water for 35-40 minutes with the skin on, which protects the pulp allowing it to remain less watery. Check the cooking with a fork. If they come in softly they are ready, otherwise extend the cooking time by 5 minutes and repeat the test.
  3. After having been drained from the cooking water, peel the potatoes while they are still hot and mash them immediately with a potato masher. Then pour them onto a floured pastry board.
  4. Add the well sifted flour, the egg, the salt and mix very shortly, just enough to amalgamate the ingredients and obtain a soft and elastic dough. The dough for gnocchi must be homogeneous, but it must not be worked too much otherwise more flour will be needed.
  5. On a floured wooden cutting board, knead some of the dough into a roll a couple of inches in diameter.
  6. Cut with a knife into 2-inch pieces. If you prefer, you can leave them plain, or place them one at a time on the tines of a fork and line them up by gently pushing them with your thumb, to create gnocchi with stripes.
  7. Arrange them on a floured tray making sure that they do not touch each other, otherwise they will stick.
  8. Then cook the potato gnocchi in a pot of boiling salted water, they will be cooked as soon as they rise to the surface.
  9. Take them directly from the pot with a strainer and place them in an oven dish to season.
  10. Season your gnocchi as you prefer: simple tomato sauce, meat sauce, 4 cheeses, gorgonzola and walnuts or with basil pesto.
  11. Enjoy