Monday, March 21, 2011

Potato Gnocchi

2 large baking potatoes (like russet)
Dash of nutmeg
Salt
1/2 cup flour
2 egg yolks
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Bake the potatoes.  When cool enough to touch, remove the flesh and put through a potato ricer.  Take three gently packed cups of riced potatoes and dump onto a counter top.  Form a rectangle.  Sprinkle nutmeg, salt and flour over the top of the potatoes.  Add egg yolks and fold it all together.  Knead by hand to form a dough.  Cut the dough into quarters.  With each quarter, roll into a long tube, about 1 inch thick.  Cut into 1 inch sections and form little pillows with each piece.

Cook in boiling water.  Gnocchi is done when it floats to the surface.  Add to a sauce of your choice (like an Alfredo or a mushroom sauce, recipes to come).  Enjoy!

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