Italian Food Recipes

Another good Italian recipe with pumpkin as main ingredient is the gnocchi of pumpkin with sauce of ricotta cheese and cream. As the ravioli of pumpkin also this recipe is typical of Mantua in the northern part of Italy. This is a simple and fast recipe to prepare.








INGREDIENTS (for 4 people)
700 g of Pumpkin
200 g of Ricotta Cheese
100 ml of Cream
150 g of Flour
1 Egg
Thyme
Salt
Pepper
Nutmeg

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes

COOKING TIME: 15 minutes

WINE: Lambrusco Mantovano DOC (Red Wine)

PREPARATION
Let salted water boil for gnocchi. Peel the pumpkin, cut it in pieces, place them in a pan with some water and let them cook for about 15 minutes or until they become soft.

Drain the pumpkin, place it in a bowl and reduce it in pulp. Place in a pan the butter and let it melt, then add the pulp of pumpkin, some salt and pepper and cook for about 5 minutes.

After this time put the mixture in a bowl and let it cool. When the mixture is cool, add in it the flour, the egg

and mix all together in order to obtain a soft dough as shown in the picture below. Now prepare the sauce.

In a pan place the cream, the ricotta cheese and some thyme.

Cook for about 5 – 8 minutes and at the end add some pepper and nutmeg.

Now cook the gnocchi in this way: put spoonfuls of the mixture of pumpkin in the water when it boils and when they raise over the surface they are ready.

This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!