Recipe: Delicious Italian Homemade Gnocchi

Italian Homemade Gnocchi. Gnocchi, Italian for "lumps," are dumplings made from mashed potatoes combined with just enough flour to hold the dough together. They're formed by rolling the dough, which sometimes contains eggs as a binding agent, into a thin log and then cutting that into bite-size pieces. The Best Potatoes for Homemade Gnocchi An all-purpose potato variety such as Yukon Gold (or the Désirée) is great for making gnocchi, as it has the right kind of starchiness to make them fluffy, and waxy enough to have them hold their shape.

Potato gnocchi are apparently easy to make, but they hide a series of small pitfalls that can determine the outcome of a bad dish. What are the secrets to make potato gnocchi that do not lose shape when cooked, that maintain a smooth texture, soft and palatable, and that have the slight taste of potato and not the annoying flavor of flour? With a decidedly un-Italian name like Lauren Cahn and a primarily Eastern European pedigree, you might be surprised to learn that homemade gnocchi (pronounced "ny-OH-kee") is one of my signature dishes. You can cook Italian Homemade Gnocchi using 4 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Italian Homemade Gnocchi

1. Prepare 1 kg of potatoes.
2. You need 300 grams of all-purpose flour.
3. It's 1 of egg.
4. Prepare 1 of salt.

You won't be able to go back to store-bought gnocchi!!! So light, so fluffy + so much better than store-bought! The traditional Italian homemade gnocchi are light, fluffy, they melt in your mouth and you can actually taste the potatoes. If you want to make chunkier ones you can watch the video below to see the difference.

Italian Homemade Gnocchi instructions

1. Boil the potatoes in salty water.
2. Peel the potatoes and smash them..
3. Put the smashed potatoes on a floury board.
4. Add a pinch of salt, the flour and knead until you have a compact and soft mix.
5. Add the egg and keep kneading until you have a compact dough.
6. Now cut off a bit of the dough and usong the hands shape it in stripes ( as to form sort of snakes).
7. Cut the stripes into pieces and using a fork shape every piece.
8. Ready to boil!.

An easy Italian Pasta Dish recipe, Homemade Potato Gnocchi. A simple tomato sauce makes these soft, delicate Gnocchi a delicious Dinner idea. Homemade Potato Gnocchi Living in Italy has made me realize that the simplest dish can be made in so many different ways, depending on the region or even how the family cooks it. How to make homemade gnocchi The recipe for home-made gnocchi is not so simple. The result is super-light, fluffy potato pasta with ridges to hold your favorite pasta sauce!