Description
Handmade gnocchi with fresh spinach sauce
Ingredients
Scale
- Gnocchi:
- 2 lbs potatoes, steamed, peeled and mashed
- 5 lbs flour
- salt
- Spinach sauce:
- 3 bunches spinach, chopped
- Bacon
- 1/4 cup white wine
- 2 cups crème fraîche
- Salt
Instructions
- Gnocchi:
- Combine mashed potatoes with flour and salt
- Knead until dough is formed
- Roll into log about 4-5 inches in diameter
- Cut off 3-4 inches at a time
- Roll smaller piece out into long snake, about 1 inch in diameter
- Pinch off about an inch at a time
- Roll it into a small ball then flatten and fold around your thumb
- Place in floured bowl or sheet
- To cook the gnocchi, you can boil or sauté:
- To sauté, heat olive oil, then place gnocchi in pan, making sure to brown each one on both sides.
- To boil, place in boiled water and remove them when they begin to float.
- Spinach Sauce:
- Sauté bacon
- Add spinach
- Add white wine, crème fraîche and salt
- Blend
- Serve over gnocchi
- Prep Time: 1 hour 30 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins