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divine
01-07-2008, 16:17
I bought some.

I don't know what to do with it.

What can I do with it?

Bearing in mind I can be quite a picky eater and so the simpler things are, the better generally :p

leowyatt
01-07-2008, 16:18
Treat it the same as you would with pasta. Stick some sauce on it and eat :)

Justsomebloke
01-07-2008, 16:33
Dunno what it is let alone what you do with it :huh:
Can you have ketchup on it :D

Burble
01-07-2008, 16:34
Cook it and eat with really good cheese sauce with fresh parmesan grated over the top. I heart gnocci muchly. Infact the gnocci al tonno served near the office in Milan is one of my favourite meals. Scrummy.

divine
01-07-2008, 16:38
hmmm...

Cheese sauce and bacon sounds like a plan then.

Burble
01-07-2008, 16:40
Sounds good to me. Gnocci (like all pasta type stuff) needs to be slightly under cooked otherwise it turns to mush.

Pheebs
01-07-2008, 16:46
How'd you pronounce it? I always sounds like a complete moose when I try and say it.

"Can I have some...gernoki.?..Geewnoosi?...'nookie?... 'nokkie?..Nngkki?...Gnosh? ...Bah I'll have a salad"

:)

Haly
01-07-2008, 16:49
I call it Nokkie which may well be wrong ;D But I like the sound of it :D
Only had it once and I overcooked it by accident so it wasn't great. Have to try it again sometime. :D

Burble
01-07-2008, 16:50
The Italians seem to have 2 different ways. Either Nocci (with a hard N) or Nyocci (all as one word, not as ny-occi) with the second one seemingly most used.

Glaucus
01-07-2008, 16:55
This is a brilliant recipe :)
Spinach gnocchi with mushroom and wine sauce
Ingredients
For the gnocchi
600g 5oz floury potatoes (such Russets), unpeeled
600g of Baby spinach
1 large free-range egg
salt and freshly ground black pepper
450g plain flour
For the sauce
300g mushrooms
200g ****aki mushrooms
1 medium finely chopped
1 garlic clove, finely chopped (or one teaspoon of lazy garlic)
200ml white wine
200ml cream
Finley chopped parsley to serve

Method: Gnocchi *makes about 10-12 starters*
1) Boil the potatoes for about 40 minutes(skins on), until tender. Remove from the heat, drain and leave to cool. Once cooled, skin and mash well in a bowl.
2) Boil a large saucepan of salted water. Wash and pick through the spinach, discarding any withered leaves and removing any large, stringy stems.
3) Blanch the spinach in batches for about 30 seconds, refreshing each batch in ice cold water. Drain and gently squeeze any remaining liquid from the spinach. You need to remove as much water as possible, so make into a thin layer and sandwich between loads of kitchen paper.
4) Finely chop the spinach
5) Mix the spinach into the mashed potato.
6) Add the flour and mix well to form a dough. Knead the dough for 3-4 minutes, until it becomes dry to the touch. This is the hard bit, it really needs to be reasonably dry. As it has spinach in your are unlikely to need a whole egg, so you need to add it as you go, If you don't want to waste eggs, melted butter will also work fine.
7) season with slat and pepper
8) leave in fridge till you ready to use, can be made 24hours in advance if needed, just make sure it's covered so it doesn't dry out.
9) Divide the dough into three pieces. On a clean, well-floured surface, roll out the dough into 1in diameter lengths, then cut into pieces at 1in intervals.
10) Place these gnocchi pieces into boiling water and cook for 2-3 minutes. When they rise to the top they are cooked. Scoop out with a slotted spoon
b]Method:[/b] Sauce
1) Add a tablespoon of olive oil to a pan on a low heat. Add the Onion and cook for 1-2 minutes. Add the garlic when the onions have turned translucent. Cook until the garlic has taken on a little colour.
2) Add the mushrooms and fry for a few minutes, season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and stir again. Raise the heat and pour in the white wine.
3) When the wine has reduced by two-thirds, reduce the heat, add the cream.
4) toss the cooked gnocchi in the sauce and serve with a sprinkle of parsley on top.

Burble
01-07-2008, 16:59
Apart from the fungus that sounds lovely. It's really important to not have any cuts or holes in the potato skins so that you keep as much starch inside as possible.

This thread has inspired me to have gnocci for dinner tonight.

Burble
01-07-2008, 17:11
Mushrooms are one of the very few thing that I can't abide. Yuck!

Glaucus
01-07-2008, 17:12
try swapping mushrooms with some chorizo or just add chorizo as well.

Oh and mushrooms rule, ah well more for me, if people don't like them.

I have a rule round my house, if I cook a meal I make no special arrangements for fussy eaters. They can either eat it or pick around it.. Doing this I have converted several people.
One who hated pasta, I expect they always tried bland over cooked mush and some one who apparently hated black pudding.

Glaucus
01-07-2008, 17:16
oh!! chorizo!! the other thing that makes life worth living ;D

mushrooms, chorizo and cream these three things together go with everything..


Oh gnochhi is stupidly startchi and very hard to actually make into those balls. Last time I was in a rush and just flattened it out and cut into squares. Worked fine. So if you planning on making it. levae a good hour just to make the mixture into the balls.

I need the memory card to turn up for my camera so I can post some recipes, Made some awesome stuff this week.

Burble
01-07-2008, 17:16
well other than that you have impeccable taste so I think I can let that one go ;)

Nobody is perfect. Seems I'm almost but not quite ;)

Chorizo and Black Pudding are absolutely nomtastic! Dinner one night last week was Chicken stuffed with chorizo and some spanish cheese the name of which escapes me. Was fab!

Tak
01-07-2008, 18:15
Never had gnocchi or chorizo and probably wouldn't know them if they came and bit me on the arse :o

Glaucus
01-07-2008, 18:18
Never had gnocchi or chorizo and probably wouldn't know them if they came and bit me on the arse :o

gnocchi is the small round pasta type things that float to the top when cooked.

Chorizo is a Spanish sausage spiced with paprika, best sausage ever....

Tak
01-07-2008, 18:21
best sausage ever....

*mustresistjokemustresistjokemustresistjoke*

Glaucus
01-07-2008, 18:21
*mustresistjokemustresistjokemustresistjoke*
Nah just go for it!

Dr. Z
01-07-2008, 19:51
Is there a way of preparing this that doesn't leave it really awfully stodgy?

I have cooked it myself, I have had it in an Italian restaurant and I have had it in Italy and it has been absolutely awful every time.

Perhaps I just cannot get on with the texture of it? Dunno... *shrug*

Glaucus
01-07-2008, 20:29
Is there a way of preparing this that doesn't leave it really awfully stodgy?

I have cooked it myself, I have had it in an Italian restaurant and I have had it in Italy and it has been absolutely awful every time.

Perhaps I just cannot get on with the texture of it? Dunno... *shrug*

it's meant to be stodgy, your just weird it's great stuff :D. But then again there's very few things I don't like.

Jonny69
02-07-2008, 10:03
Mushrooms: as a general rule I won't eat anything in the same family as athlete's foot or thrush.

Burble
02-07-2008, 17:52
Mushrooms: as a general rule I won't eat anything in the same family as athlete's foot or thrush.

I've always said that you're a very very sensible chap.