Purple potato gnocchi
By: cucina&cantina
Published: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 5:44am

Ingredients




for the gnocchi
• 500 gr of peeled potatoes
• organic flour
• semolina flour (to dry)
• a pinch of salt
for the butter sauce (2 portions)
• 30 grams of salted butter
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 tablespoon chopped chives

Preparation

1 Boil peeled potatoes, when they are cooked, dry and mash it. 2 After potatoes are no more warm mix with organic flour and knead non too much because potatoes are moist and they might sticky too much the dough. 3 Made little stripes and cut it in 1-1 and 1/2 lenght each for made gnocchi. Sprinkle with semolina flour and dry it in a wet place for at least 1 day. 4 Cook purple gnocchi in a hot pan with a spoon of butter and move continuosly for cook every side. 5 In the meanwhile in a pot melt salted butter and garlic clove together with a low flame, mix for a couple of minutes and add chopped chives, cook for another minute and season already cooked gnocchi. Serve immediately

About

searched for a long period the purple potatoes, very rare there in Italy. A friend of mine (@ValeDagata) helped me in my mission!! My violette potatoes come from France and also my cat was happy, the packaging became his new bed!
How you can see, I prepared both version traditional gnocchi with floury potatoes and purple version, to make a very fancy dish!
I dress this gnocchi with a very tasty butter sauce that i tasted this winter in London with lobster, then I found very versatile in different recipes.

Comments:
cucina&cantina

What do you think about my recipe?
willy

turned out pretty well! instructions were confusing