Gnocchi Verde Food

GNOCCHI I

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Peel potatoes and add to pot. Cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool and mash with a fork or potato masher.
• Combine 1 cup mashed potato, flour and egg in a large bowl. Knead until dough forms a ball. Shape small portions of the dough into long "snakes". On a floured surface, cut snakes into half-inch pieces.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Drop in gnocchi and cook for 3 to 5 minutes or until gnocchi have risen to the top; drain and serve.

GNOCCHI VERDE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cook spinach.(An easy way is to microwave washed, lightly dampened spinach 1 minute at a time, stir and microwave another minute if necessary). Chill spinach.
• Put ricotta cheese in a sieve to drain away all excess liquid.
• Completely squeeze all water out of cooled spinach (press in a colander, then squeeze through a clean kitchen towel) to achieve 2 cups tightly packed, squeeze-dried spinach.
• Break spinach up in a mixing bowl.
• Add salt, pepper,nutmeg, drained ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese, flour, eggs, and chilled butter and mix with a wooden spoon.
• Transfer spinach mixture to a lightly greased baking pan.
• Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes.
• Remove from oven and stir mixture in pan. Return to oven for another 25 minutes.
• Remove from oven and stir again.
• Cover and let sit for about 15 minutes to cool down.
• When cool, put covered pan in refrigerator.
• When mixture is cool enough to handle, roll into golf-ball-size dumplings in the palm of your hand.
• Freeze until ready to serve or keep in the refrigerator for a few days.
• To serve, reheat dumplings at 350 degrees for about 5 minutes or microwave on high for about 1 minute per dumpling.

GNOCCHI PRIMAVERA

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the gnocchi and cook as the label directs. Reserve 1 cup cooking water, then drain.
• Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the leek and cook, stirring occasionally, until it softens and just starts browning, about 3 minutes. Add the radishes, sugar snap peas, 1/2 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper. Cook, stirring often, until the peas are bright green and crisp-tender, 5 to 6 minutes.
• Add the gnocchi to the skillet along with 3/4 cup of the reserved cooking water, the butter, grated parmesan, lemon zest and parsley. Remove from the heat and gently stir until the gnocchi are well coated and the cheese melts, adding more cooking water as needed to loosen. Top each serving with shaved parmesan.

GARDEN VEGETABLE GNOCCHI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°. In a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan, toss vegetables with oil, salt and pepper. Roast 18-22 minutes or until tender, stirring once., Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, cook gnocchi according to package directions. Drain and return to pan., Stir in roasted vegetables, Alfredo sauce and pesto. If desired, sprinkle with basil.

GNOCCHI VERDE

Steps:

• • Peel the potatoes, cut them into even chunks and cover with cold water and a teaspoon of salt. Bring to a simmer and cook for 25 minutes or until tender but not falling apart. Pass the potatoes through a mouli-legumes. • Wash the spinach well and then drop into a pan full of well-salted boiling water. Cook for two minutes and then drain the spinach and refresh in a bowl of cold water. Drain the spinach again and squeeze out every drop of water until very dry. Chop the spinach until it is very fine, preferably in a food processor. • Mix together the spinach and potatoes before adding the egg yolks, the first lot of cheese and then folding in the flour. Season with salt, white pepper and a little freshly grated nutmeg. Sprinkle a board with flour and then roll out the mixture into long sausage shapes about a centimetre-and-a-half in diameter. • Bring another wide pot of water to the boil with a pinch of salt. Melt the butter in a large ovenproof dish. Drop a dozen or so gnocchi into the water, or as many as you can without overcrowding them, and let them come back to a simmer. Simmer for 30 seconds after they come to the surface before lifting them out into the buttered dish. Repeat the process until all the gnocchi are cooked. Sprinkle them with the remaining cheese and bake in a medium-hot oven (190C) for 10 minutes or until gently browned.