If you love butter, potato and flour you will absolutely love gnocchi. Gnocchi is an Italian dish. It is actually a form of a pasta made with potatoes and flour. (Gnocchi recipe found here). Even though the recipe is simple, the process is a little tedious, which causes a loss of appeal in the dish. I am trying to bring it back and appreciate how we can serve these lil golden nuggets of goodness more on an everyday basis. The key is to prep them in advance, freeze them and they can be prepared in a fraction of the time!
During Covid I started taking the time to prepare the dough and storing it in the freezer. Therefore, making it more accessible for daily quick fix weekday meals. Here is one of my all time favorite recipes to make with gnocchi.
Here’s what’s you will need :
- 1 lbs of gnocchis pillows
- 8 tablespoons of unsalted butter cut into one inch tubes
- 18 large fresh sage leaves chopped roughly
- One teaspoon of lemon zest
- Salt and pepper to taste
Directions
- Bring a pot of water to a boil. Add salt to taste like the sea.When water is boiling, add gnocchi.
- Meanwhile, in a large nonstick skillet add unsalted butter at medium heat and stir around until all melted.
- Add chopped sage leaves. Continuing to stir until the butter and sage leaves are brown.
- By the same time in the boiled gnocchi pot, the gnocchi should be floating on top of the water which signals the it is cooked.
- Take a slotted spoon and take the gnocchi out the pot and place it in the hot brown butter.
- Remove from the heat and add lemon zest, salt and pepper.
And that’s it! You’re done.
I hope you enjoy this dish as much as my family has.