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Verona Gnocchi Recipe

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Servings 5

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kg potatoes yellow and floury
  • 300 g flour or less
  • 1 egg
  • salt

Instructions
 

  • Wash the potatoes and boil them in plenty of salted water.
  • Peel them, squeeze them with a potato masher, mix them with the sifted flour, egg and a little salt.
  • Dust the work surface well with flour and knead the mixture until soft and smooth.
  • Shape long finger-thick strands of dough and cut them with a small knife into many small pieces about 2 centimeters long.
  • In a pot boil salted water, pour in the gnocchi and scoop them out with a skimmer as soon as they rise to the surface and are ready to be seasoned or sautéed.

Notes

Some seasonings are: melted butter flavored with sage and cheese, tomato sauce and parmesan cheese, melted gorgonzola, meat sauce, goulash and stracotti, pesto alla genovese, vegetable ragout, mushroom sauces, etc.