Italian Food Recipes

Potatoes gnocchi are a famous Italian dish that you can prepare with different type of season. There are many variety of gnocchi made with different type of flour such as gnocchi with semolina flour, also called Roman Gnocchi; gnocchi with maize flour; gnocchi with chestnuts flour; but the most know are potatoes gnocchi. You can prepare them simple with flour and potatoes or also with the addition of some vegetables like spinach, swiss chard or pumpkin, and so you obtain green and orange gnocchi. The best ingredients to prepare potatoes gnocchi are: the yellow potatoes that are slightly floury and so do not attach; and the right quantity of flour, if you use too much flour the gnocchi might be hard instead if you use few flour the gnocchi might be too soften. The element that best characterize potatoes gnocchi is the stripes on their surface. They are important because allow gnocchi to best absorb the seasoning and so give them a delicious taste. In this recipes potatoes gnocchi are prepared with sauce of spares rib try them and let me know if you like it!


INGREDIENTS (for 6 –8 people):
2 Kg of Potatoes
1 Kg of Flour

PREPARATION TIME: 1 hour and 30 minutes

COOKING TIME: 20 minutes

WINE: Dolcetto D’Alba DOC (Red Wine)

PREPARATION
Bring salted water boil for gnocchi. Wash the potatoes, place them in a large pan with water and bring to boil for about 10 – 15 minutes or until they become tender.

You can control the cooking point with a fork if it enters easily in the potatoes they are ready. When potatoes are ready let them cool, peel them and with the potato masher mush them as shown in the picture.


Now add around the mashed potatoes the flour


and begin to knead until you obtain homogeneous and soft dough, this take about 8 – 10 minutes.


Divide the dough in parts and roll each one in order to obtain a sort of longs sausages thick as a finger. Pay attention to have always enough flour on the worktable in order to not attach the dough to it. Cut each long sausage in small pieces of 1 cm length.


When you have all the pieces, you have to give them the shape of gnocchi: to do this take a fork. Hold the fork with one hand and lean it to the work board, with the other hand take a piece of dough and with the index finger press rolling it on the fork: in this way you obtain gnocchi.


Sprinkle the gnocchi with flour and place them on a tray.

When water boils put in it the gnocchi and let them cook until they rise on the surface.

Drain them and pour on them the sauce of spares rib.
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!