What do you need?
– 1 kg last year’s potatoes
– ca 100-200 g flour – more, if needed
– a pinch of salt
– an egg or two (optional)
– any herbs you like, parmesan cheese (optional)
How to make:
Boil potatoes in salted water until soft. Drain them, put into a bowl and mash with a fork. At this step you can add all kinds of good stuff like salt, sage leaves, dried chilies, parsley or other herb mixes that you like). Add flour and mix well with potatoes until a pretty solid dough forms. You can add some eggs to keep the dough together, but if you knead the dough well, it is not really necessary. Take a fist-sized piece of dough, roll it on a floured surface into a sausage and then cut bite-sized bits off of that said sausage. Press with a fork to make them pretty. Take a larger pot and bring salted water to a boil. Put the gnocchi in one layer into a sieve with a handle and put the sieve into the water. Let the gnocchis boil about a minute, toss them around liberally to keep them from sticking onto the sieve. Take them out and enjoy with a sauce!
How much does it cost in 2024?
Potatoes are free from your cellar, 200 g flour is around 20 cents tops. A little electricity and water? It won’t cost you more than one euro to make.
How to serve them?
Italians do it best with some herby tomato sauce. But a smoky chanterelle sauce, olive-oil fried sage and garlic sauce or even minced meat and red wine sauce are good with fresh gnocchi.