Golden Gnocchi in Garlic and Basil
Butter with Cherry Tomatoes
A beautiful Italian style starter.
If you want to know how to make light
fluffy Gnocchi then follow my recipe to the letter and you won’t be disappointed.
You
will need;
800 Gm - Potatoes
50 Gm - Flour
1 - Egg Yolk
A pinch - Salt
A pinch - Pepper
50 Gm – Butter
3 – Cloves Garlic (crushed)
A few leaves of Basil (crushed)
Cherry Plum Tomatoes (halved)
This amount of potatoes will make quite
a few Gnocchi, so as a guide I would use about 2 tomatoes to each Gnocchi.
Bake the potatoes for an hour in the
oven at 200°; test them with a fork because they may need a little longer
depending on their size.
Don’t let them cool to much work with
them as warm as you can, cut each potato in half and squeeze out the insides
into a bowl then discard the skin.
Press the potato through a sieve, don’t
mash with a fork or masher this would be working it too much and will make
tough, chewy Gnocchi.
Now add the flour, egg yolk, salt and
pepper and work with your hands. Don’t over work the mix; just make sure that
all the ingredients are mixed reasonably well together.
Flour your board and roll out into a
dough like ball.
Take some of the potato mix and make into a sausage shape, then cut into sections.
If you want to make them look good (who
wouldn’t) press the down with a fork, and roll them over.
Put them into a pan of boiling water,
they are done when they rise to the top.
Heat the butter in a large frying pan and
add the garlic and basil.
When the pan is hot, take the Gnocchi
out of the saucepan with a slotted spoon and add to the frying pan.
Fry for about 5 minutes then turn them
and add the tomatoes, and fry for a further 5 minutes.
Serve immediately.
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