How to Prepare Yummy Homemade Gnocchi

Homemade Gnocchi.

You can have Homemade Gnocchi using 6 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Homemade Gnocchi

1. You need 1 cup of all-purpose flour.
2. It's 500 g of potatoes.
3. You need 1 of egg.
4. You need 35 g of butter.
5. You need 57 g of grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese.
6. You need to taste of Salt.

Homemade Gnocchi step by step

1. Place potatoes in a pot and completely cover with cold salted water, stopping when the water is 1 inch in above the potatoes..
2. Bring to a boil and simmer until tender (or when a knife entres easily), about 50 minutes..
3. Let cool until they can be handled..
4. Peel and put them through a ricer or food processor.
5. Combine hot peeled potatoes with flour, egg and salt..
6. Turn dough out onto a floured cutting board and cut into 3 portions..
7. Gently roll each portion into a long log about 3/4 inch thick..
8. Cut each log into 3/4-inch pieces with a floured knife..
9. Press a piece of dough against tines of a floured fork or Gnocchi board, and push with a floured thumb in a forward motion toward end of tines, letting gnocchi fall from fork onto a floured kitchen towel..
10. Repeat with remaining pieces of dough..
11. The gnocchi should be cooked in salted water, well drained, then dressed with a generous helping of butter and Parmesan cheese..
12. Add (to taste) tomato sauce or even better still, fresh cherry tomatoes browned in butter..
13. PS: Hand-made potato gnocchi cook very quickly: they should be boiled in salted water and removed just as soon as they rise to the top of the pot..