Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To get started with this 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 that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto:
- Prepare 30 g cherry tomatoes
- Get Gnocchi
- Prepare 1 kg potatoes
- Make ready 350 g flour
- Prepare 5 ml salt
- Take 2 ml nutmeg
- Take 2 eggs, large
- Prepare 80 g butter
- Prepare Spinach pesto
- Prepare 50 g baby spinach
- Take 20-30 ml olive oil
- Take 15 ml pine nuts
- Prepare 15 ml lemon juice
- Prepare 20 g parmesan cheese
- Get 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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