Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, gnocchi with pesto sauce. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Homemade Gnocchi and Pesto Cream Sauce. There is nothing like homemade pasta. The gnocchi (or potato dumplings) are so light and airy that they melt in your mouth and the rich and nutty pesto cream sauce is the perfect compliment for this impressive dish.
Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have gnocchi with pesto sauce using 7 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce:
- Get floury potatoes
- Prepare flour +more if needed and for dusting
- Take beaten eggs
- Take salt
- Get creme fraiche
- Make ready store-bought basil pesto
- Get finely grated parmesan cheese
Gnocchi (plural) are Italian dumplings that are made with potatoes and flour, then boiled like pasta until they're fluffy pillows of goodness. This Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce, also called Gnocchi al pesto, falls perfectly in to the category of "quick and easy". Boil the gnocchi using package directions. Then mix it with pesto and sun-dried tomatoes.
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.
Sprinkle some parmesan and garnish with fresh basil leaves. Add the pesto sauce to it. In a pan heat up water and boil these rounds. Pesto from the refridgerated section of the market works much better than a jarred pesto sauce. Add lots of salt to the boiling water to help flavor the gnocchi.
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