Gnocchi – the Italian dish reminding our dumpling. Gnocchi can be served and as a main course and as snack for a festive feast.
Ingredients:
- Large egg – 1 piece;
- Potatoes - 750 g;
- Flour - 150 g;
- Cream cheese (it is possible to replace with cottage cheese) - 100 g;
- Hard cheese - 80 g;
- Salt - to taste.
Ingredients for a stuffing:
- Chicken fillet (it is possible to choose other meat) – 300 g;
- Hard cheese - 80 g;
- Egg - 1 piece;
- Cream cheese (it is possible to take cottage cheese) - 100 g;
- Salt - to taste.
For registration it is required: desi, several bunches of greens (fennel, basil, parsley, etc.).
Preparation:
- To execute this dish it is necessary to cook potatoes and meat. Wash out and boil potatoes in a uniform. It is possible to check readiness a fork. If potatoes became soft – it is ready.
- Then it is necessary to wash chicken fillet and to cook it in water which needs previously to be salted. Meat and potatoes for a dish can be boiled in advance that process of preparation took less time.
- As soon as potatoes cook, it is necessary to cool and remove it from it a uniform. The following step is to use up chishcheny potatoes on a large grater. At will it is possible to knife into small pieces.
- To the turned-out mashed potatoes it is necessary to pour flour. Break egg in mix. Then to mix everything very carefully. A hard cheese needs to be ground on a grater with a small nozzle and to pour out in potato mix. Put there and cream cheese (or cottage cheese). To add pepper and salt at will. From all ingredients to knead dough of which gnocchis will be made. Remove dough in the fridge and be engaged in a stuffing.
- In the food processor to crush the chicken fillet chopped by pieces there to place firm and cottage cheese cheeses. Break egg in meat mix. Salt and shake up. Mix has to remind paste.
- Now it is necessary to stick together gnocchi. For this purpose it is necessary to tear off from refrigerated dough small pieces (on 15 g) and to roll from them balls. Crush balls in flat cakes. To put in core of flat cakes a little bit stuffings and to pinch dough from above an envelope. Roll balls on the board powdered with flour.
- Then gnocchi needs to boil in the boiling water (about 3-5 minutes). Give the gnocchis watered kindled by a desi and powdered with greens.