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Gnocchi to celebrate!
It is hard to believe that after 4 weeks of struggle, we made it. I can say at last that I'm staying in Vienna to complete my externship. Thank God and everyone who participated in this battle, I really have no words for it.
NOW, to celebrate this wonderful thing I made the first gnocchi in my life. I also insisted to buy an appropriate wine to go with it, and it was the Chianti Classico 2005. M M M. That's all I can say. My parents were as content as I was and now they can finally go back home to Split after a week being here with me in Vienna.
Here I'm sharing with you some pictures and recipe from my ''debut gnocchi'' which were fun to make and not that hard, but still a bit demanding.
My first potato gnocchi
There isn't any special recipe for this, I actually searched the web a little and looked through some books and got my own recipe!
-To start off, I read in Jamie's book Cook with Jamie, that he roasted the potatoes first which I found very intriguing so I went for it. I baked like 8 small potatoes for the three of us for an hour, but I have to mention that those potatoes were bought at the local farmer who has, no joke, the BEST potatoes I ever had, so of course the gnocchi were amazing, so make sure you use the best available potatoes.
-Then I peeled them and and mashed them (you can do this with a fork, potato masher or a ricer). I used the fork since I didn' have anything else on hand and it turned out great. Then I salted them (VERY important!) and added some freshly ground pepper as well (of course, I put black pepper in everything, even in my hot chocolate :))
- Now I added 1 egg yolk and plain white flour untill I formed a nice kind of dough, not sticky. ATTENTION: not too much flour, rather let them be a little sticky or they'll be to dense and heavy.
-Roll the dough in a sausage like form and cut in small pieces. Boil a lot salted water and boil them in batches, so you have more controll over them. When they come out on the surface, leave them for a few more moments and take them out, leave to drain.
I have just drizzeled some extra virgin olive oil and sprinkled with grated pecorino tartufo with some ground pepper, OF COURSE, and not forget to mention, as Frau Groll here would say, ''Und meine liebe hand!'' meaning ''And my dear hand''.
Post je objavljen 14.09.2007. u 22:39 sati.