Christmas gnocchi

Recipes / Vegetarian

Start your vegetarian Christmas feast with this gourmet gnocchi starter.

Recipe «Christmas gnocchi» presented in category Recipes / Vegetarian, to prepare this dish you will need no more 1:55 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 1 1/4 cups rock salt, 4 Desiree potatoes or Red Delight potatoes, 2 small sweet potatoes, 1 egg yolk, 1 tsp sea salt , 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon, 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg, 75-115g plain flour , 100g butter, chilled, chopped, 1 bunch fresh sage, 40g dried cranberries, 1 tbs lemon juice, Vegetarian hard cheese wafers, to serve.

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/4 cups rock salt 
  • 4 Desiree potatoes or Red Delight potatoes 
  • 2 small sweet potatoes 
  • 1 egg yolk 
  • 1 tsp sea salt 
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg 
  • 75-115g plain flour 
  • 100g butter, chilled, chopped 
  • 1 bunch fresh sage 
  • 40g dried cranberries 
  • 1 tbs lemon juice 
  • Vegetarian hard cheese wafers, to serve 

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Spread rock salt over baking tray. Top with combined potatoes. Roast for 1 1/4 hours or until sweet potato is soft. Transfer sweet potato to a plate. Roast potato for a further 15 minutes or until soft. Cool for 10 minutes.
  2. Peel all potatoes. Pass through potato ricer or sieve into a bowl. Add egg yolk, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and 1/2 cup flour. Stir to form soft, pliable dough, adding more flour if too sticky. Turn onto well-floured surface. Knead gently until smooth. Divide into 4 portions. Roll 1 portion into a 50cm-long log. Cut into 1.5cm-thick pieces. Gently roll, 1 at a time, over the back of a lightly floured fork. Transfer to a lined tray. Cover with a tea towel. Repeat with remaining dough.
  3. Bring saucepan of salted water to boil. Cook gnocchi, in 4 batches, for 1-2 minutes until gnocchi rise to the surface. Transfer to baking tray. Repeat with remaining gnocchi.
  4. Melt butter in a frying pan over medium heat. Stir in sage leaves until crisp. Drain on paper towel. Stir in cranberries for 1-2 minutes or until butter is deep golden. Stir in lemon juice. Add gnocchi. Combine. Top with sage and hard cheese wafers.