making homemade gnocchi - gnocchi recipe

we sprinkled a bit of shredded cheese (a mix of 6 Italian cheeses) and plated the gnocchi up with some broccoli


It's been so long since I started the draft of this post that I can't remember exactly when we made homemade gnocchi. It may have even been as far back as August.

Regardless, here are the photos and description walking you through the process of making some homemade gnocchi.

The basic recipe is as follows:

ingredients:

2 pounds of Russet potatoes, baked
1 egg, beaten
1/2 tsp salt
1 heaping cup of flour

First step is to scoop the potato out of the peeling and then rice the potatoes. Place those riced potatoes in a mound and create a well in the middle. Sprinkle the salt and flour over the mound. Place the beaten egg in the center. Then, using your hands, mix the ingredients together. Then form gnocchi. To cook, drop gnocchi gently into a pot of rapidly boiling water and let cook for about a minute to two minutes. They're done when they float to the top of the pot.


2 lbs of russet potatoes. First I baked them in the oven until tender. Then I scooped the potato out of the skins and used a potato ricer. What you see in the picture is a mound of riced potatoes.


one organic egg, beaten


used about 1/2 tsp of salt and just over 1 cup of flour


this picture shows the mound of riced potatoes with the salt and flour sprinkled on top. I made a hole in the center where I poured the egg. Then I used my fingers to mix it all together into a dough.


a view of the dough as I'm beginning to cut it down into smaller pieces to make the "snakes"


using the bench scraper to cut the snake into small pieces of dough


here you can see some of the formed gnocchi, two pieces of the dough, and one "snake" of dough


the big girl helped form the gnocchi using the fork tines


here you see some of the formed gnocchi. what is not shown is that I cut the original lump of dough into four pieces and then rolled a piece out into a long tube - called a snake - and then cut it into smaller pieces which I then rolled across the tines of a fork to form into gnocchi.


a closer look at forming the gnocchi


all of the gnocchi is formed


the next step was to drop the formed gnocchi into a pot of boiling salted water


when they're done cooking they rise to the top of the water


then I lifted the cooked gnocchi out and immediately placed them into a pan of hot marinara sauce (this is some of the sauce I made earlier in the day - it went from Roma tomato to marinara sauce to dinner)


here you see a pot of the cooked gnocchi and marinara sauce

It takes a bit of time to form the gnocchi, but it's a very inexpensive pasta and is a great way to use up extra potatoes in the winter months. If you have an excess of potatoes and are looking for a new way to serve them to your family, give homemade gnocchi a try!