Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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This simple traybake recipe combines pillowy gnocchi with broccoli, cherry tomatoes and spinach, all brought together with a herby homemade spinach pesto. 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.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto:
- Make ready 30 g cherry tomatoes
- Prepare Gnocchi
- Get 1 kg potatoes
- Prepare 350 g flour
- Get 5 ml salt
- Take 2 ml nutmeg
- Make ready 2 eggs, large
- Prepare 80 g butter
- Make ready Spinach pesto
- Prepare 50 g baby spinach
- Make ready 20-30 ml olive oil
- Take 15 ml pine nuts
- Take 15 ml lemon juice
- Make ready 20 g parmesan cheese
- Prepare To taste salt
- Make ready To taste pepper
However, I found the whole process pretty time consuming, but with this recipe, it is much easier and faster, because we only need to cut the stuffed gnocchi roll into. Put the spinach and peas in a non-stick pan with some seasoning and a splash of water, and heat, stirring, until the spinach has wilted. Add the pesto and crème fraîche, and gently heat through. Cook the gnocchi in a pan of boiling water following pack instructions then scoop out with a slotted spoon into the spinach pan.
Steps to make Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto:
- Bake potatoes in a roasting pan in a 180°C oven for 1 hour.
- Remove potatoes. Let cool slightly. Peel the skin off. Tip** season skins with some spices and serve as a snack.
- Mash potatoes. Gently mix in flour, eggs, salt and nutmeg to form a soft dough.
- Roll dough into a sausage form about 1.5cm thick. Cut about 1cm blocks.
- Use a fork and toll them from the bottom to the tip of the fork.
- 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.
- Pesto: In a blend add your baby spinach, olive oil, lemon juice, grated parmesan cheese, pine nuts, salt and pepper. Blend until desired consistency.
- Season gnocchi with salt and pepper. Serve with spinach pesto and some fresh cherry tomatoes.
Melt the butter in a large frying pan over a medium high heat. Once heated, add the gnocchi and pan fry until golden in colour. Remove from the heat, and set aside. Return the gnocchi to the pan, then stir the pesto through the mixture. First, I made a simple basil pesto sauce to go with our crispy gnocchi.
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