The gnocchi with mushrooms are a delicious dish, perfect for Sundays with your family or guests. The dish depends on the taste of mushrooms that you have chosen, which will also depend on the cost, and can be served as an important dish, to impress people. Its preparation is very simple to implement, especially if you buy ready-made gnocchi. If you cannot find them, have look to our recipe, how make gnocchi at home.
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GNOCCHI WITH MUSHROOMS
Instructions
Start the dough by heating a medium-sized pot plenty of water and adding salt. Wash the potatoes with the whole peel (1). Add the potatoes (2) in the hot water and cook for about 20 minutes to boil it. Once boiled, drain the potatoes (3) and let it cool a little.
Placing the potatoes on a cutting board (4), and peel them with a knife (5). Put the vegetable without peel in a soup plate and mush them with a fork, or a potato masher (6), to have a smooth mixture without lumps.
Now, on a wooden worktop, sift the white flour (7) over the mash potatoes. Then break the whole egg (8) in a bowl, to identify any pieces of shell and eliminate them. Then pour the whole egg on the flour and potatoes (9).
Now start kneading everything (10) with your hands, until you get a soft and elastic dough (11), without lumps. Let rest for about two hours, so that it dries a little. Finally take it back and then start cutting it into small pieces (12).
Take a small portion and form a cigar on a cutting board with the palm of your hands (13). Thickness need be about one and a half centimeters. Made the cigar, start to cut it into squares with a thickness of two centimeters (14), repeating the same operation for the remaining dough. Then make the lines with the tines of the fork (15) for all the gnocchi. Put the gnocchi aside on the wooden surface, sprinkle with flour and begin to prepare the sauce.
Now prepare the sauce. Peel the clove of garlic (16) and chop the onion finely (17) on a cutting board. Then pour five tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil (18) in a large and non-stick pan.
Now clean the mushrooms by removing with the knife blade smooth the ground from the stems and caps (19), by wiping quickly with a cloth the mushrooms (20). Then place them on the cutting board and cut into cubes (21) to put in a bowl apart.
Now light the fire under the pan (22) and then fry the onion over medium heat. Then add the mushrooms (23) and cook for about ten minutes (24) over medium heat, covering with a lid and stirring often.
After ten minutes add salt (25) and pepper (26). Mix well and then also add the white wine (27) and simmer until to evaporate. Cook another ten minutes without a lid.
Meanwhile chop the parsley (28) and when you have finished the cooking of mushrooms also join the cream (29). Mix well and also add the nutmeg (30). Stir well to mix everythin.
In the meantime you are boiling the water to cook the gnocchi. Cook them and when ready add to the pan (31) with mushrooms. The gnocchi are ready when they start to float on the surface of water. Stir well them in the pan for about a minute on low heat. Add the Parmesan (32) and parsley (33) and then stir again before serving on the table piping hot.
