Parmesan Gnocchi and Tomato Sauce Recipe with Images

Learn how to prepare Parmesan Gnocchi and Tomato Sauce using Desiree potatoes, pasta flour, parmesan cheese, plum tomatoes, and vegetable stock. Here is a simple recipe guide with images.

Parmesan Gnocchi and Tomato Sauce Recipe with Images
Prep Time 10 min
Cook Time 60 min
Serving 8
Difficulty Easy

Cooking Preparation (Mis-en-place)

Assemble all the Parmesan Gnocchi and Tomato Sauce recipe ingredients on the preparation table.

  1. Cook the Desiree potatoes.
  2. Grate the parmesan cheese.
  3. Beat the eggs in a bowl and separate the egg white from the egg yolk.
  4. Place the necessary cooking equipment nearby.

How to prepare Parmesan Gnocchi and Tomato Sauce

Follow the steps below.

 

Ingredients

  • 250g- pasta flour
  • 4- egg yolks
  • 700g- Desiree potatoes
  • 50g- cream
  • 150g- parmesan cheese
  • 70g- butter
  • 150g- carrot
  • 50g- vegetable oil
  • 20g- vegetable puree
  • 2- bay leaf
  • 40g- celery
  • 1- clove of garlic
  • 2- spring of thyme
  • 2- juniper berries
  • 400g- plum tomatoes
  • 1ltr- vegetable stock
  • sherry vinegar
  • basil
  • salt and pepper
  • 20g- tomato puree

Nutritional Information

  • Protein: 14.7g
  • Fat: 25.0g
  • Sat fat: 11.1g
  • Energy: 1814kJ
  • Fibre: 4.0g
  • Sugar: 6.4g
  • Cals: 433kcal
  • Carb: 41.0g
  • Sodium: 0.7g

Directions

1. Bake the potatoes.

Bake the potatoes in an oven for 40 minutes.

Bake the potatoes.
2. Remove the potato skins.

Remove the potato skins and press them through a drum sieve for a smooth texture.

Remove the potato skins.
3. Mix.

Add the parmesan, egg yolks, and butter to the pressed potatoes,  and season with salt and pepper. Mix until smooth.Add the flour to the mixture until it is all absorbed.

Mix.
4. Wrap the dough.

Wrap the dough in cling film and allow it to rest. Then roll and shape into small pieces.

Wrap the dough.
5. Blanch the gnocchi.

Blanch the gnocchi in simmering water until they float. Then refresh them.

Blanch the gnocchi.
6. Cut the carrots.

Cut the carrots and celery into small pieces.

Cut the carrots.
7. Sweat the vegetables.

Heat the butter and oil in a pan, and sweat the celery and carrot with the garlic, thyme, juniper berries, and bay leaf.

Sweat the vegetables.
8. Chop the tomatoes.

Roughly chop the tomatoes and add them to the saucepan with the tomato puree. Cook.

Chop the tomatoes.
9. Add the vegetable stock.

Add the vegetable stock and the cream, then reduce by half.

Add the vegetable stock.
10. Add the vinegar

Remove the bay leaf and thyme, and add the sherry vinegar, then blitz until smooth.

Add the vinegar
11. Serve.

Combine the sautéed gnocchi and the warm sauce, and finish with fresh herbs and parmesan cheese.

Serve.