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Gnocchi with Tomato and Caper Sauce

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Gnocchi with Tomato and Caper Sauce

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gnocchi

  • 1 kg Potatoes
  • 5 piece Egg yolk
  • 250 g Flour
  • 100 g Semolina
  • 1 pinch Nutmeg
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 pinch Pepper

Tomato sauce with capers

  • 80 g Shallots
  • 3 piece Garlic cloves
  • 80 g Capers
  • 6 piece Tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp Tomato paste
  • 50 g Basil
  • 40 ml Olive oil
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 pinch Pepper
  • 50 g Butter

gnocchi

  1. Peel the boiled potatoes and press them through a potato press while they are still lukewarm.
  2. Add the egg yolks, pepper, nutmeg, salt, 100 g flour and semolina to the potato mixture. Mix the dough together well. Let the dough rest for ten minutes.
  3. Flour the worktop with the rest of the flour and briefly roll the dough in flour and cut into several pieces. Shape a small rolling pin and use the spatula to cut across into pieces about two centimeters in size.
  4. Briefly press in each part with a fork.
  5. Cook the gnocchi in plenty of salted water – they will be done when they float on top.
  6. Heat the butter and olive oil in a pan and toss the drained gnocchi in it.

sauce

  1. Chop the garlic and shallots very finely.
  2. Peel the vine tomatoes. Chop cherry tomatoes. Finely chop the basil.
  3. Sauté shallots and garlic in olive oil and season with salt. Add tomato paste. Mix carefully and pepper. Add the fresh tomatoes and capers and simmer.
  4. Decorate the gnocchi and sauce with basil and cherry tomatoes and serve warm.
Dinner
European
gnocchi with tomato and caper sauce

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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 29 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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