Grandma Maturi's Gnocchi Recipe
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Ingredients: 3 cups mashed potatoes (directions below)
1½ cups unsifted all-purpose flour
1½ tsp salt
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 egg, slightly beaten
spaghetti sauce of your choice (bolognese is our favorite)
1½ cups freshly grated parmesan or asiago cheese
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Directions:Mashed Potatoes: cook peeled potatoes until tender in unsalted boiling water and drain thoroughly and then run through a fine wire strainer. Do not add any seasoning or other ingredients. Measure out 3 cups and use right away.
Put the mashed potatoes in a bowl and add the flour, salt and oil and blend with a fork. Add eggs and blend thoroughly into potato mixture. Turn dough out onto a large floured cutting board and knead gently. Shape dough into a loaf and set on floured area to prevent sticking.
Cut off one piece of dough at a time (about ½ cup's worth) and roll on a lightly floured board into a cord. Cut cord into 1¼ inch lengths. Roll each smaller piece between your palms to form little oval balls. Repeat this process until all the dough is used up. Set gnocchi aside on lightly floured pan or baking sheet making sure pieces don't touch as you make them.
When all the dough is shaped, cook the gnocchi by dropping about ⅓ of them at a time into 3 quarts of boiling salted water. Cook for 5 minutes after they return to surface of water (stir gently if they haven't popped up after about 1 minute). Keep water at a slow boil.
Remove cooked gnocchi with a slotted spoon and place in a shallow rimmed pan and mix with spaghetti sauce (or just melted butter if you don't like sauce). Serve with sauce and sprinkle with parmesan or asiago cheese. |
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Notes: Grandma Maturi never used a written recipe, but my aunt has been able to come close to recreating the original dish. Gnocchi is a special occasion dish in our family and you will find us eating it at big family holiday meals or when important guests are visiting. My grandpa became friends with baseball star Ted Williams when he was playing for the Minneapolis Millers. Ted would visit my grandpa every year to go duck hunting in northern Minnesota. Ted Williams visiting was certainly a special occasion, and grandma Maturi would spoil him with her homemade gnocchi. After dinner she would serve "Ted Williams Fudge Bars" which she made (and named) just for him.
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