Gnocchi Alla Romana
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Unsure what to ready for dinner tonight? Here is an idea: Gnocchi alla Romana!
These are non the traditional Italian gnocchi made amongst potatoes, exactly they are prepared amongst semolina flour, milk, egg yolks, a comport on of nutmeg together with lots of cheese. They are tender together with amongst a real fragile flavor. The bask of these gnocchi is inward the nutmeg together with the cheese. I used Parmesan (obviously!) together with a cave aged Gruyere cheese, which has a real distinctive flavour that does non overshadow the gustation of other ingredients. I dearest to purpose Gruyere cheese, because of its savory exactly non overpowering taste. And it's a nifty melting cheese, perfect for baking!
The gnocchi alla romana is an Italian primo piatto, that you lot tin serve earlier a lite meat dinner (secondo piatto), or equally a principal dish for a to a greater extent than casual dinner. You tin give the gnocchi amongst your best Lycopersicon esculentum sauce, or serve it side past times side to a light-green salad. Buon Appetito!
Ingredients for 4-6 servings:- 4 cups (32 fl oz) of milk
- 2 cups of semolina flour
- 2 egg yolks
- 3 tablespoons of unsalted butter
- 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg (powder or grated)
- 1 loving cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 loving cup of shredded cave-aged Gruyere cheese, or other savory cheese
- salt
Preparation time: 45 minutes addition i hr (or more) of refrigeration time.
Directions:
Step 1: In a large saucepan, convey the milk to a lite boil, over medium heat. Add the semolina flour to the milk, wishing without stopping to avoid lumps from forming. Add the tabular array salt together with the nutmeg.
Step 2: Cook over depression heat, mixing continuously together with carefully scraping the semolina from the sides together with bottom of the pan, for close v to 10 minutes, until the mixture is thick plenty to line away from the sides of pan.
Step 3: Remove from oestrus together with contain the egg yolks,1 loving cup of Gruyere together with 1/2 loving cup of Parmesan cheese. Save the residuum of the Parmesan cheese for the end.
Step 4: Butter or crude a baking canvas large plenty - I used an 11x15 inward baking sheet. Pour the mixture, together with apartment it out equally fifty-fifty equally you lot can, using a wooden spoon, stir stick or the apartment blade of a large knife, to close 1/4 of an inch inward thickness.
Step 5: Cover amongst plastic twine together with allow cool downwards for a minimum of an hour. Note: You tin besides fix this the twenty-four hr menstruation earlier together with shop inward the fridge for a day!
Step 6: Pre-heat the oven to 450 degrees. Butter the bottom of a oven dish, rectangular or round. Cut the semolina mixture inward equally many circular shapes equally you lot can. You tin purpose a cookie cutter or a circular glass, large or small. Mine pick out a diameter of 2.75 inches.
Note: If you lot don't desire to throw away the left over mixture, house all of these slice to the bottom of the dish, where nobody volition see, together with house all the circular gnocchi on top.
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Step 7: Sprinkle the give amongst the remaining Parmesan cheese together with butter cutting inward pocket-size pieces.
Bake for 20 minutes, or until nicely golden on top.
Enjoy!!
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