Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, gnocchi with pesto sauce. One of my favorites. This time, 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 recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started 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 can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce:
- Take 900 grams floury potatoes
- Get 200 grams flour +more if needed and for dusting
- Get 2 beaten eggs
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 200 ml creme fraiche
- Make ready 2 tbsp store-bought basil pesto
- Prepare 1 tbsp finely grated parmesan cheese
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. Sprinkle some parmesan and garnish with fresh basil leaves.
Steps 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.
Add the pesto sauce to it. In a pan heat up water and boil these rounds. A hearty minestrone style soup with an upgrade of gnocchi and homemade pesto, in other words it's perfectly delicious! To give you an idea of taste, just think about your favorite minestrone then adding fresh pesto and gnocchi to that. I mean why didn't I think of this before!
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