Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Homemade Italian potato dumplings (gnocchi) coated in rich pesto cream sauce. Wait - before I continue, let me explain what gnocchi are, for those of you who don't know. Gnocchi are small little potato dumplings that are native to Italy and typically served with sauce.
Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto:
- Get 30 g cherry tomatoes
- Make ready Gnocchi
- Prepare 1 kg potatoes
- Make ready 350 g flour
- Prepare 5 ml salt
- Make ready 2 ml nutmeg
- Make ready 2 eggs, large
- Get 80 g butter
- Get Spinach pesto
- Take 50 g baby spinach
- Get 20-30 ml olive oil
- Get 15 ml pine nuts
- Take 15 ml lemon juice
- Get 20 g parmesan cheese
- Make ready To taste salt
- Take To taste pepper
Because fresh homemade Italian food is best when made with friends and wine and excessive laughter. To start the week off we made homemade gnocchi. We served it with tomato sauce, spinach, mozzarella, pesto & a touch of Parmesan. Feel free to follow me on.
Instructions to make Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto:
- Bake potatoes in a roasting pan in a 180°C oven for 1 hour.
- Remove potatoes. Let cool slightly. Peel the skin off. Tip** season skins with some spices and serve as a snack.
- Mash potatoes. Gently mix in flour, eggs, salt and nutmeg to form a soft dough.
- Roll dough into a sausage form about 1.5cm thick. Cut about 1cm blocks.
- Use a fork and toll them from the bottom to the tip of the fork.
- Boil a pot of water. Add the pieces of gnocchi. As soon as they float remove from water and add to roasting pan. Add blocks of butter and grill in oven for few minutes.
- Pesto: In a blend add your baby spinach, olive oil, lemon juice, grated parmesan cheese, pine nuts, salt and pepper. Blend until desired consistency.
- Season gnocchi with salt and pepper. Serve with spinach pesto and some fresh cherry tomatoes.
It's so simple to give homemade pesto a healthy boost using fresh spinach. For this recipe you will need a mini food processor or a blender. We frequently make quick and easy homemade gnocchi with leftover mashed potatoes, or you can try Stretch this recipe and amp up the sauce by adding sautéed onion, fresh pesto, sautéed mushrooms. Made with homemade basil pesto and soft pillowy gnocchi! Grill this warming veggie gnocchi until bubbling and golden.
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