Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce
Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, gnocchi with pesto sauce. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce is something that I have loved my entire life.

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.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have 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:
  1. Prepare 900 grams floury potatoes
  2. Get 200 grams flour +more if needed and for dusting
  3. Get 2 beaten eggs
  4. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  5. Take 200 ml creme fraiche
  6. Prepare 2 tbsp store-bought basil pesto
  7. Get 1 tbsp finely grated parmesan cheese

Then mix it with pesto and sun-dried tomatoes. Sprinkle some parmesan and garnish with fresh basil leaves. Toss this gnocchi in a herby pesto sauce and you will be eating the best low carb pasta of your life. This gnocchi recipe was taught to me when a friend came to visit from Genoa, Italy.

Instructions to make Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce:
  1. Preheat oven to high
  2. 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.
  3. Take potatoes out and let cool a little before peeling (if necessary, protect your hands with a tea towel while doing this)
  4. Put the potatoes through a ricer into a large bowl
  5. Mix in the eggs and salt, then gradually mix in most if the flour to make a soft but firm dough
  6. 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
  7. Have a pan of salted water on to boil
  8. Mix together the creme fraiche and pesto in a small bowl
  9. When the water is boiling, cook the gnocchi in batches (it is done when it rises up to the top of the water)
  10. Add pesto sauce and cooked gnocchi together in another pan, and mix together. Season with salt and pepper.
  11. Serve, sprinkled with grated parmesan.

I posted about the pesto we made to go with it in a separate post, and as promised the gnocchi as a followup. They can also stand up to a toss with your favorite sauce. You can see them pictured at the top of this post. Add the pesto sauce to it. In a pan heat up water and boil these rounds.

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