Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Maple Cinnamon Sage Brown Butter

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Usually I love Giada's recipe but this one is just a disaster!
I tried twice and did not work . I Thought the idea was great but the gnocchi was so heavy and dense and the sauce was so grease....argh not good. I thought it might be the ricotta but right now I don't have time to tried again. Sorry Giada but this one I cannot aprove!

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I still attempted this recipe even after reading all of the reviews. This is an absolutely horrible recipe. You'd be better to pour flour and water in your mouth and wash it down with sweet potatoes. It would save you a lot of time and you would have the same outcome. As stated previously, you should rate this recipe as it is and not how it turned out after modifications. Even after adding a great deal more flour, it still turned out extremely doughey. The flavor was really lacking as well. I would suggest not making this dish. The one good thing that came from this recipe was that I added enough flour to make a pasta dough out of it and made sweet potato raviolli's. I love Giada; hated the recipe!

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this was the FIRST giada recipe that my husband and i were not impressed by! we didn't care for the sauce. not a fan of the maple syrup and cinnamon on my pasta. maybe just keep it syple with evoo or butter, s&p, sage & garlic? not sure. but it didn't have much flavor. definitely not worth the time...

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My boys don't like sweet potatoes but this was a hit! It does take some time and patience but it is well worth it. I was able to do this while completing the rest of my dishes by myselt. What a treat!

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There is not enough flour in the recipe. I had to add about 50% more flour and a couple of egg whites to get it to cook. I still could not get it thick enough to make a dough. In order to salvage the batch I put it in a pastry bag with a large tip and held it over boiling water and would cut it into 1/2 inch bits that dropped into the water. The sweet potato is just way too moist for that little flour. The flavor was very good though

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I made this about a year ago, but never wrote a review. I saw that they aired this episode again, and wanted to stop everyone from making this recipe! It was very difficult and timly. It was edible, but I ended up throwing away the majority of it because it tasted terrible. I also made the sundried tomato corn bread muffins from this episode and advise , don't do it! I love Giada, but this episode should not be rerun!

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The amount of flour needed is way off. I read the reviews and still followed the recipe (don't ask me why, and it turned out tasting terrible because of the excessive amount of flour.
On a side note, for those of you who modified the recipe and were actually able to make it taste good, you should not give this recipe a good rating. You are rating the recipe on the site not the recipe + your modifications. I shouldn't have to read a bunch of reviews to realize a recipe I thought was four stars is actually only one or two stars if you follow the exact recipe.

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I have tried a few of Giada's recipes and have loved them (the shrimp linguine with lemon and parsley and the spinach and goat cheese stuffed pork is top notch delicious but this one bites the dust. When I watched the show she said that you need to add enough flour so you can work with the dough to roll it out and cut it. Unfortunately this means a lot more flour which only takes away the taste of the sweet potatoe. I didn't salt the boiling water and the gnocchi came out ok but were very bland and heavy/filling because of the flour. The sauce was good though- it should be after a stick of butter! I put chopped pecans in with the sauce and thought it gave it a different texture so everything wasn't so soft. I picked the recipe because i wanted to do something different with sweet potatoes but I think i'll stick to my old one. (baking the sweet potatoes for about 30min, take them out of the oven. cut into slices and add brown sugar, butter and pecans. Return to pan and bake for 20min

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I made this the other night for my sister, my mom, and my kids. Sister and Mom liked it, two kids had one bite and then ate salad. Ond kid said it tasted like french toast.

The preparation was right on, and very easy. I LOVED the brown-butter sauce and how the sage crisped up in the pan. The gnocchi were light and fluffy.

Granted, I did serve it as the main course...it clearly should be a side dish as Giada says, with turkey.

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We are an Italian family and I have made gnocci all my life. We love sweet potatoes and were excited to try this variation. To say it was very disappointing is a gross understatement. I had to add more flour, and they were still very mushy.
The taste / texture was like eating blobs of uncooked cinnamon roll dough...not at all appetizing! They definitely need more flour....more than double, and a different sauce. Cinnamon, butter, and maple syrup just seems too much like breakfast to us. Definitely will not ever make this again.