Recipe: Yummy Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto

Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto. It's so simple to give homemade pesto a healthy boost using fresh spinach. For this recipe you will need a mini food processor or a blender. Homemade Italian potato dumplings (gnocchi) coated in rich pesto cream sauce.

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Ingredients of Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto

1. You need 30 g of cherry tomatoes.
2. It's of Gnocchi.
3. It's 1 kg of potatoes.
4. You need 350 g of flour.
5. You need 5 ml of salt.
6. Prepare 2 ml of nutmeg.
7. It's 2 of eggs, large.
8. It's 80 g of butter.
9. It's of Spinach pesto.
10. You need 50 g of baby spinach.
11. You need 20-30 ml of olive oil.
12. You need 15 ml of pine nuts.
13. You need 15 ml of lemon juice.
14. You need 20 g of parmesan cheese.
15. You need To taste of salt.
16. It's To taste of pepper.

Homemade cannelloni with spinach and tomato sauce. Once you make this ricotta gnocchi recipe there will be And while nowadays, we can get great store bought gnocchi, there is something so satisfying about making it at home. Gnocchi isn't as hard to make as the restaurants would like you to think. This simple three ingredient gnocchi gives me great results every time.

Homemade gnocchi with spinach pesto step by step

1. Bake potatoes in a roasting pan in a 180°C oven for 1 hour..
2. Remove potatoes. Let cool slightly. Peel the skin off. Tip** season skins with some spices and serve as a snack..
3. Mash potatoes. Gently mix in flour, eggs, salt and nutmeg to form a soft dough..
4. Roll dough into a sausage form about 1.5cm thick. Cut about 1cm blocks..
5. Use a fork and toll them from the bottom to the tip of the fork..
6. Boil a pot of water. Add the pieces of gnocchi. As soon as they float remove from water and add to roasting pan. Add blocks of butter and grill in oven for few minutes..
7. Pesto: In a blend add your baby spinach, olive oil, lemon juice, grated parmesan cheese, pine nuts, salt and pepper. Blend until desired consistency..
8. Season gnocchi with salt and pepper. Serve with spinach pesto and some fresh cherry tomatoes..

This Homemade Pesto with Spinach is more flavorful than any store-bought version and gets a nutritional boost by adding spinach! And don't even get me started on pesto on pizza. Make up a batch and you have instant flavor for. I have avoided making gnocchi at home because in the past I have failed at it and it became what my friend Glennis calls food that makes your knees knock in the kitchen. I simply had the wrong recipe and wrong understanding of gnocchi.