Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, gnocchi with pesto sauce. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Perk up gnocchi and vegetables with a flavorful pesto sauce. If you don't have pine nuts for the topping, skip or substitute any nut you like. First, I made a simple basil pesto sauce to go with our crispy gnocchi.
Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have gnocchi with pesto sauce using 7 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce:
- Prepare 900 grams floury potatoes
- Make ready 200 grams flour +more if needed and for dusting
- Make ready 2 beaten eggs
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Get 200 ml creme fraiche
- Prepare 2 tbsp store-bought basil pesto
- Prepare 1 tbsp finely grated parmesan cheese
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. This Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce, also called Gnocchi al pesto, falls perfectly in to the category of "quick and easy".
Instructions to make Gnocchi with Pesto Sauce:
- Preheat oven to high
- 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.
- Take potatoes out and let cool a little before peeling (if necessary, protect your hands with a tea towel while doing this)
- Put the potatoes through a ricer into a large bowl
- Mix in the eggs and salt, then gradually mix in most if the flour to make a soft but firm dough
- 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
- Have a pan of salted water on to boil
- Mix together the creme fraiche and pesto in a small bowl
- When the water is boiling, cook the gnocchi in batches (it is done when it rises up to the top of the water)
- Add pesto sauce and cooked gnocchi together in another pan, and mix together. Season with salt and pepper.
- Serve, sprinkled with grated parmesan.
Boil the gnocchi using package directions. 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. Fluffy Potato Gnocchi Pasta drowning in an irresistible cream.
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