Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto
Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto

Hello everybody, it is Drew, 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 food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Homemade gnocchi sounds tricky, but the actual process is pretty easy — and well worth the effort. 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.

Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
  1. Take 30 g cherry tomatoes
  2. Take Gnocchi
  3. Make ready 1 kg potatoes
  4. Take 350 g flour
  5. Make ready 5 ml salt
  6. Prepare 2 ml nutmeg
  7. Make ready 2 eggs, large
  8. Make ready 80 g butter
  9. Prepare Spinach pesto
  10. Make ready 50 g baby spinach
  11. Prepare 20-30 ml olive oil
  12. Prepare 15 ml pine nuts
  13. Prepare 15 ml lemon juice
  14. Make ready 20 g parmesan cheese
  15. Prepare To taste salt
  16. Take To taste pepper

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. Today we are talking HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE GNOCCHI… party style. Because fresh homemade Italian food is best when made with friends and wine and excessive laughter.

Instructions to make Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto:
  1. Bake potatoes in a roasting pan in a 180°C oven for 1 hour.
  2. Remove potatoes. Let cool slightly. Peel the skin off. Tip** season skins with some spices and serve as a snack.
  3. Mash potatoes. Gently mix in flour, eggs, salt and nutmeg to form a soft dough.
  4. Roll dough into a sausage form about 1.5cm thick. Cut about 1cm blocks.
  5. Use a fork and toll them from the bottom to the tip of the fork.
  6. 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.
  7. Pesto: In a blend add your baby spinach, olive oil, lemon juice, grated parmesan cheese, pine nuts, salt and pepper. Blend until desired consistency.
  8. Season gnocchi with salt and pepper. Serve with spinach pesto and some fresh cherry tomatoes.

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. This pesto gnocchi will become your go-to summer meal. This dish is filled with potato gnocchi, peppers, zucchini, pesto, pine nuts and cheese. How incredible does this gnocchi pesto look? All those fresh veggies, that thick potato gnocchi pasta, and the shavings of parmesan cheese.

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