Grandma Sue’s Gnocchi!
I am updating this original post as several people asked for the recipe.
I have always enjoyed my time in the kitchen. For a few years and for various reasons I didn’t find my typical enjoyment in cooking. It was a double edged sword. Making food always brought me joy, but I couldn’t find the energy to do so. When I do, I find it sparks joy! However, what’s that movie, “How Stella Got her Groove Back?” Well this is a little different.. “How Denise Got her Kitchen Groove Back” or something silly like that. It just reminds me of spennding many Sunday mornings with my Grandma Sue making an array of Italian dishes. I am getting back in the habit that Sunday’s are for making big time authentic Italian food! This week I was in the mood to make my Grandma’s gnocchi.
It’s really not as hard as you think. So follow along!
Ingredients:
4 cups of flour – see note below about this
4 potatoes – or what my grandmother’s recipe card says is 3 cups
1 tsp salt
1 egg
Directions:
Start with adding only 3 cups of flour to a bowl, add the salt and mix, then add the egg. Next is the potatoes.
You can boil the potatoes until soft or this last time I used baking potatoes, microwaved them and then put them through a potato ricer. You may not have a potato ricer but I suggest you invest in one. I know no other way. Add the potatoes and start mixing in the potatoes with the egg and flour. Add the last cup of flour little by little. I say this because you do not was it to get too dry. All I can say is you have to have a feel for it. This is where Italian women did not teach you to cook as an exact science. It’s in the feel, the taste, the texture. I really should start those cooking classes. What can I say. You’ll get it down after a try or two. 🙂 Enjoy!
See this step by step. And yes try to get them the same size but I don’t always get it perfect. It just looks nicer and they cook evenly! You can roll them on a fork or a wooden roller.
Roll out the dough in strips like this:
And then cut them into 1 inch pieces like this:
Now roll them over the back side of a fork like this. Be sure to flour the fork for easy rolling. This helps add texture to the gnocchi for the sauce to have something to grab on to 🙂
Now put them on a tray to hang out until you are done with all of them like this:
To freeze the gnocchi put the tray in the freezer until frozen and then you can store them in a ziplock bag. Otherwise cook those that you plan to use right away and eat them like this:
Delicious!! 🙂
