Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, gnocchi with basil pesto. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really 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 this recipe. You can also just make the pesto while the gnocchi is cooking.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have gnocchi with basil pesto using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Gnocchi with basil pesto:
- Prepare 250 g charlotte potatoes
- Get 100 g flour
- Get 1 egg
- Make ready Bunch basil
- Get 50 g pine nuts
- Take 50 g Parmesan
- Prepare 3 tablespoons olive oil
- Get 1 clove garlic
- Take Salt
- Get Pepper
You can serve the gnocchi as an appetizer or as a side dish. Use the On/Off switch to quickly pulse until coarsely chopped. Scrape down the sides of the container. Add the oil, basil, parsley, and pine nuts.
Steps 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.
Remove gnocchi with a slotted spoon and gently shake off excess water before placing in a large pasta bowl. (If not serving immediately, plunge gnocchi into an Once the last batch has been boiled, drained, and tossed with pesto, divide gnocchi among bowls and serve at once, garnished with basil. For the pesto, crush the basil, pine nuts, and garlic in a mortar. Stir in the oil, bit by bit until smooth. Cook the gnocchi in boiling salted water until they float the surface. Mix the gnocchi with the pesto and serve while warm.
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