Author Notes
My little kids love gnocchi, I give them gnocchi, and one day I proudly served them these , quite sure they´d love the orange color and sweetish flavor. What can I say, they didn´t. But us grown-ups enjoyed them pretty much lately. —Sabine
Ingredients
-
500 grams
sweet potato ( 1 large)
-
100 grams
AP flour, + some more for working
-
1
medium egg
-
1/4 teaspoon
approx. freshly ground nutmeg
-
1 pinch
fleur de sel
-
40 grams
salted butter
-
20
small leaves of fresh sage
-
1
small handful coarsely chopped walnuts
Directions
-
Peel sweet potato and cut into chunks.
-
Cook in lightly salted boiling water until tender.
-
Drain water and mash potato with a fork. Dry out the mash over very low heat for 1-2 minutes.
-
Set aside to cool completely, at least 1-2 hours or overnight.
-
In a bowl, mix sweet potato mash with flour, egg, salt and ground nutmeg.Mix well to obtain a somewhat sticky dough.
-
Cook batches of 10-20 (depending on the size of your pot) in boiling, lightly salted water until the gnocchi appear on the top, 1-2 minutes. Keep warm on a plate, drizzle with brown butter prepared as follows:
-
In a small saucepan, melt butter, then add chopped walnuts and sage leaves. Fry for a few minutes over low to medium heat, until the butter solids turn brown, and sage/walnuts are crispy. While doing so, give the pan an occasional stir or swirl. Drizzle gnocchi with the brown butter and serve immediately.
See what other Food52ers are saying.