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Gnocci (pronounced nyo-kee)
Is a potato pasta which is easier to make than to buy.
Boil up 4 or 5 med potatos or yams/sweet potatos.
Drain well and mash with butter.
Mix in salted (1tsp) flour up to 3 cups until it feels like a bread dough. Keep it on the wet side, it makes lighter pasta.
Roll out into a 1/2" ribon. Flour the outside of the ribbon, to keep dough on the wet side.
Cut into 3/4" segments. Press segments with thumb against the back of a fork to give them the rippled finish of gnocci. It takes a minutes practice, but is quite easy.
Put finished gnocci on paperplates with corn meal or flour. Don't over pack on plates.
Stiffen in freezer until ready to cook.
Cook in boiling water until they rise to the surface.
Try adding Nutmeg to Sweet Potato. Try cooking your white potatos in beet juice for red pasta or spinach juice for green pasta. Make Tri-Colored.
Serve in red sauce for White Potato or Alfredo Sauce for Sweet Potato version.
Will Feed 4 with proper wine & salad.
Simple Alfredo Sauce:
Simmer 2 cups broth (I like Red Miso) Chicken is fine. 1-12 oz. can evaporated milk, Sprinkle in 2-3 Cups grated cheese. (I like pepper jack & Parm.) Allow to stiffen.
Gerry M
Is a potato pasta which is easier to make than to buy.
Boil up 4 or 5 med potatos or yams/sweet potatos.
Drain well and mash with butter.
Mix in salted (1tsp) flour up to 3 cups until it feels like a bread dough. Keep it on the wet side, it makes lighter pasta.
Roll out into a 1/2" ribon. Flour the outside of the ribbon, to keep dough on the wet side.
Cut into 3/4" segments. Press segments with thumb against the back of a fork to give them the rippled finish of gnocci. It takes a minutes practice, but is quite easy.
Put finished gnocci on paperplates with corn meal or flour. Don't over pack on plates.
Stiffen in freezer until ready to cook.
Cook in boiling water until they rise to the surface.
Try adding Nutmeg to Sweet Potato. Try cooking your white potatos in beet juice for red pasta or spinach juice for green pasta. Make Tri-Colored.
Serve in red sauce for White Potato or Alfredo Sauce for Sweet Potato version.
Will Feed 4 with proper wine & salad.
Simple Alfredo Sauce:
Simmer 2 cups broth (I like Red Miso) Chicken is fine. 1-12 oz. can evaporated milk, Sprinkle in 2-3 Cups grated cheese. (I like pepper jack & Parm.) Allow to stiffen.
Gerry M
. My wife is a good cook, but she doesn't use recipes most of the time. So I won't be able to give recipes except for the ones I find in her cookbooks after I wipe the dust off of them.
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