Polenta gnocchi with savoy cabbage and cheese
By: PolaM
Published: Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 1:58pm

Ingredients




1/2 lb cooked polenta
1 egg
1/3 cup buckwheat flour
1/2 small savoy cabbage
1/2 cup diced melting cheese like fontina
1+1 tbsp butter
1 clove garlic
sage
salt

Preparation

1 Put the cold precooked polenta in a mixer and blend it with the egg until creamy. 2 Add the buckwheat flour. You will need more or less 1/3 of a cup, but a lot depends on how sticky your polenta. Add enough flour to get a soft dough that doesn't stick to your hand. 3 Form the gnocchi on a floured surface by rolling out the dough in long logs, more or less as thick as a thumb and then cut them in gnocchi. If you want the gnocchi to look super nice, roll them on a fork to give them the characteristic stripes (I never do). Place the gnocchi in the fridge while you prepare the sauce. 4 Cut the savoy cabbage in stripes, wash it and stew it with a bit of water until wilted. Drain it and sautee it with 1 spoon butter and salt until cooked. 5 Prepare the cheese by dicing it and the rest of the butter by melting it with the sage and the garlic. 6 Cook the gnocchi in salted boiling water in batches. Throw 10-20 gnocchi in the pot of boiling water and fish them out once they start floating. Drain them and add them to a bowl. Dress with cheese, cabbage and butter and keep layering the ingredients in the bowl until you run out. 7 Do not mix the gnocchi in the bowl, as they are rather soft and would break. If the cheese didn't melt much, you can microwave the bowl for a couple of minutes. 8 Serve piping hot.