Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, gnocchi with pesto sauce. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Making pesto sauce is mainly a matter of pureeing the greens, garlic, and nuts, and then stirring in the oil and cheese. Heat it very briefly—you don't want the vibrant green color to wilt—then adjust for consistency and seasoning, and toss the cooked gnocchi in to serve. Homemade Gnocchi and Pesto Cream Sauce.
Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook gnocchi with pesto sauce using 7 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce:
- Take 900 grams floury potatoes
- Prepare 200 grams flour +more if needed and for dusting
- Prepare 2 beaten eggs
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 200 ml creme fraiche
- Make ready 2 tbsp store-bought basil pesto
- Get 1 tbsp finely grated parmesan cheese
Then mix it with pesto and sun-dried tomatoes. Sprinkle some parmesan and garnish with fresh basil leaves. Toss this gnocchi in a herby pesto sauce and you will be eating the best low carb pasta of your life. Add the pesto sauce to it.
Instructions to make Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce:
- Preheat oven to high
- Pierce the skins of the scrubbed and dried potatoes and if possible put them on metal skewers and bake in the oven for 45-60 minutes, turning them over halfway through.
- Take potatoes out and let cool a little before peeling (if necessary, protect your hands with a tea towel while doing this)
- Put the potatoes through a ricer into a large bowl
- Mix in the eggs and salt, then gradually mix in most if the flour to make a soft but firm dough
- Put dough on a floured surface, divide into four pieces, then roll each piece into a long sausage and cut into short pieces and place pieces onto floured baking trays
- Have a pan of salted water on to boil
- Mix together the creme fraiche and pesto in a small bowl
- When the water is boiling, cook the gnocchi in batches (it is done when it rises up to the top of the water)
- Add pesto sauce and cooked gnocchi together in another pan, and mix together. Season with salt and pepper.
- Serve, sprinkled with grated parmesan.
In a pan heat up water and boil these rounds. This gnocchi recipe was taught to me when a friend came to visit from Genoa, Italy. I posted about the pesto we made to go with it in a separate post, and as promised the gnocchi as a followup. They can also stand up to a toss with your favorite sauce. You can see them pictured at the top of this post.
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