Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, gnocchi with basil pesto. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce, also called Gnocchi al pesto, falls perfectly in to the category of "quick and easy". All you need is a pack of Gnocchi and pre-made pesto for You can also just make the pesto while the gnocchi is cooking. I used the Homemade Basil Walnut Pesto I shared last week.
Gnocchi with basil pesto is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Gnocchi with basil pesto is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook gnocchi with basil pesto using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Gnocchi with basil pesto:
- Prepare charlotte potatoes
- Get flour
- Prepare egg
- Make ready basil
- Prepare pine nuts
- Make ready Parmesan
- Prepare olive oil
- Prepare garlic
- Take Salt
- Take Pepper
In our pesto, we're doubling up on the greens by adding hearty spinach. And instead of regular pasta, we're using fresh gnocchi (cooked right along with the green beans). The hearty, veggie-packed sauce coats the dumplings perfectly, resulting in a dish as elegant as it is satisfying. For the pesto, crush the basil, pine nuts, and garlic in a mortar.
Instructions to make Gnocchi with basil pesto:
- Peel the potatoes and boil in water for 25 mins. Once cooked, drain and leave to cool.
- Whisk cool potatoes with a handmixer. Add flour and egg and mix until it forms a dough. Roll the dough into four balls.
- Roll each dough ball into long sausage strips and cut at diagonals. Place on a tray, cover with cling film and refrigerate for 30 mins.
- Using a mixer, blitz the basil, olive oil, garlic, Parmesan and pine nuts in a blender. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Take the gnocchi out of the fridge and pop into salted boiling water for 3 mins.
- Drain the gnocchi and serve with as much pesto as you like.
Stir in the oil, bit by bit until smooth. Cook the gnocchi in boiling salted water until they float the surface. If rolling the gnocchi is intimidating, skip the shaping the gnocchi with a fork. Gnocchi - which means dumplings in Italian - are made from potatoes and flour. They are easy enough to make, although we use bought gnocchi Pesto, too, is very simple; it comes originally from Genoa in northern Italy and traditionally is made with basil, garlic and pine nuts crushed and blended.
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