Gnocchi

Recipe Courtesy of Mario Batali

Show: Molto MarioEpisode: Grandma's Kitchen

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (9)

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Cook Time:
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Level:
Easy
Yield:
12 servings of gnocchi

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Ingredients

3 pounds russet potatoes
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 egg, extra large
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup canola oil

Directions

Boil the whole potatoes until they are soft (about 45 minutes). While still warm, peel and pass through vegetable mill onto clean pasta board.

Set 6 quarts of water to boil in a large spaghetti pot. Set up ice bath with 6 cups ice and 6 cups water near boiling water.

Make well in center of potatoes and sprinkle all over with flour, using all the flour. Place egg and salt in center of well and using a fork, stir into flour and potatoes, just like making normal pasta. Once egg is mixed in, bring dough together, kneading gently until a ball is formed. Knead gently another 4 minutes until ball is dry to touch.

Roll baseball-sized ball of dough into 3/4-inch diameter dowels and cut dowels into 1-inch long pieces. Flick pieces off of fork or concave side of cheese grater until dowel is finished. Drop these pieces into boiling water and cook until they float (about 1 minute). Meanwhile, continue with remaining dough, forming dowels, cutting into 1-inch pieces and flicking off of fork. As gnocchi float to top of boiling water, remove them to ice bath. Continue until all have been cooled off. Let sit several minutes in bath and drain from ice and water. Toss with 1/2 cup canola oil and store covered in refrigerator up to 48 hours until ready to serve.

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Loba leicester, NC 06-25-2009
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Yum!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Super easy, and incredibly light and delicious! If you pay attention to use 3 lb of russet potatoes and 2 cups of flour it... comes out perfectly! Read more
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Tom Downers Grove, IL 01-29-2009
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Easy and Simple
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This is one of the easiest and best recipes. I have used it countless times for family dinners with the relatives. Each... time I have to increase it for more of the relatives that show up.Read more
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Noi kalamazoo, MI 12-04-2008
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WONDERFUL
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Easy and fast to make, tastes wonderful! I though it was going to be a lot more labor intensive, but it really was as... simple as it sounds. I got to make fun of my mom since I made it by hand and she always bought it in the frozen package!Read more
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Gabriel Orlando, FL 08-25-2008
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Disaster
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

I also followed this recipe to the "T" and had huge problems. I have made homemade pasta several times and never had a... problem with it so I'm not sure where I went wrong with this one. It turned out to be way too sticky and gooey and had the flavor of potatoes and flour. Seems like we might be low on the egg content to make this recipe work. After trying this recipe I searched this site for another recipe for next time. I wasn't terribly surprised to see most of the other "recipes" call for frozen or refrigerated gnocchi.Read more
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Anonymous 01-20-2008
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Great Gnocchi
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This recipe is easy!!! Forget about shaping them. Cut them off the roll of dough and toss them in the water. These gnocchi... are light little pillows. The gnocchi itself is under salted. Remember to taste and season.Read more
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Anonymous 12-28-2007
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sticky and chewy
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

I followed the recipe to a tea. It was way to sticky, gummy and lacked flavor. My search for a quality recipe goes on.