Sweet Potato Gnocchi - healthy, easy and homemade!

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Sweet Potato Gnocchi - healthy and easy to make!

Hey guys,

ever wondered what you can do also with sweet potatoes ? 

I just love the taste and the health effects which sweet potatoes bring with them. I thought so why not trying out a recipe to make gnocchis out of them. Its not a rocket science and it does not take you forever in the kitchen. 

All you need is some good ingredients and a bit of time in the kitchen! 

So here we go !

2 Persons 

Ingredients for the Gnocchi:

ca. 400 g sweet potato (cooked & smashed)

ca. 130 g flour (all purpose flour)

1 teaspoon of nut meg powder

2-3 table spoons of freshly grated parmesan 

Ingredients for the sauce:

150 g cocktail tomatoes (quartered)

Pepper & salt 

For serving: 

ca. 50 g splits of parmesan on top at the end 

Ruccola (cutted and mixed in the sauce at the end)

1-2 tabel spoons of roasted pine nuts, mix them at the end underneath the sauce (roast them over minmal heat in the pan, be careful burns quick,)

This is how we do it ! 

Cook (sliced and peeled) & smash afterwards the sweet potatoes in a bowl, mix in the nut meg and parmesan. Add slowly the flour and knead the ingridents all together till the dough is not sticky anymore. Be aware that you only knead till everything is one dough, dont add too much flour as it can make the gnocchi to hard. 

When ready place it for around 15 minutes covered in the fridge.

In this 15 minutes roast the pinutes in medium heat, place it aside. Quarter the cocktail tomatoes and stir them slowly (medium heat) in a bit of olive oil with a drizzle of salt and pepper till a nice sauce comes out. Afterwards put the sauce ot the side.

Get your dough out of the fridge. Add some flour over it and cut the dough into 3-4 slices. Roll the slices on a floured work surface till they get the look of a long sausage. Than cut the long sausage into 2 cm thick gnocchis. If you want you can also do the typical fork thing to the gnocchis, but I woud skip that part. 

Now get water in a pot to boil (reduce heat - not boiling anymore) and add the gnocchis till they come on the surface of the pot. The best you can use to get not too much water with this is a ladle. Collect them all on a plate.

Use your pan and put some little olive oil and heat it, add the gnocchis at medium heat and roast them a bit on each side (be careful not to smash them). Turn off the heat and add the sauce, cutted ruccola and pinuts and mix it all together. 

Serve it on a plate and add some parmesan splits above your Gnocchis ! Enjoy!

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