Today’s recipe is a first course to be made at home, the gnocchi with shrimps.
Homemade gnocchi are a type of pasta that is always appreciated by everyone, that you can offer both as a Sunday lunch with the family, or for a dinner with friends. To be served with good white wine that recalls fruity flavors.
For the preparation of the gnocchi we used sweet potatoes, excellent both for quick cooking and for being easily crushed.
If you want to change the recipe by replacing the shrimp with other fish to your liking, you can do so by following the instructions in this article.
A portion equal to 150 grams of this food, is the quantity recommended by both nutritionists and dieticians, excluding special diet regimens for important diseases.
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. Pour two tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil (16) in a large frying pan, and once hot, add the whole cloves of garlic with the peel (17). Let fry for a few minutes and add the frozen shrimp (18) in the pan. Cook for about five minutes on low heat.
- Now with a fork remove the cloves of garlic (19) and turn the shrimp (20). Then add the cream (21). Cook over a moderate flame for about ten minutes.
- Mix all the ingredients in the pan with a wooden spoon (22) and in the meantime melt the saffron with a little warm water, stirring with a teaspoon (23). Add the saffron to the shrimp and cream (24). Season with salt, stir again and cook for another five minutes.
- Add salt to the cooking water of the gnocchi (25) until it is thick. Once boiled add the gnocchi (26), letting it cook until all of them are afloat (27).
- Once cooked, take the gnocchi with a ladle and add them to the sauce in the pan (28). Add a little more of the cream (29) if the sauce is too dry, and stir thoroughly (30) well. Serve immediately on table.
