Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Not every recipe is a great success :(
I found a recipe for Gnocchi on "The Nest" website that I was excited to try. So I spent most of Sunday afternoon making the sauce, cooking the potatoes, mixing them with flour, etc, letting them cool, rolling them out and forming them into small pieces to be cooked. The sauce turned out fine, the gnocchi itself though was not so great. It tasted very doughy, and was not nearly as firm as the kind you get in a restaurant. It kind of had the consistency of the outside of perogies when they have been boiled but not fried. This was my first time trying to make any kind of pasta, and I was disappointed it didn't turn out. However, I am willing to try again, anyone out there have a good gnocchi recipe? I think I will keep looking for recipes from more credible sites - not that I don't love the nest, but I have found most of their recipes are just okay.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I use this recipe for the gnocchi (the sauce is yummy too though)- http://zoomyummy.com/2010/06/03/homemade-gnocchi-and-mushroom-bacon-sauce/
ReplyDeleteThey've turned out better each time, I think practice makes perfect more than anything! I found leaving them to float for a few extra seconds made them firmer and less doughy tasting.
Thanks Rebecca! I was planning on trying again in the next few days, I will test this recipe out!
ReplyDeleteSteph makes some pretty good gnocchi. Don't know how she does it. Good effort though. I'm scared of making my own pasta. Liz
ReplyDelete