VeganMoFo: Gnocchi. My grandma's recipe

Hello world! :)

Yesterday, my modem fell to the floor and died (- mum, did you touch the modem? - no, it fell down on its own! ----> There's a point in your life when your parents become children again), so I couldn't write and I'm going to give you my recipe today! :)

This is the recipe I wanted to start with, but then I decided to postpone it, 'cause I had no time to make gnocchi! :)

I used to make them with my grandma when I was a child, but I have to tell you the truth: my grandma used to put an egg in the dough, but I don't. So, actually this is my grandma's veganized recipe. Hope you like it. :)

To me, gnocchi mean going back to my childhood when I helped grandma to roll the dough and cut it into a lot of nice gnocchi, having fun in her kitchen and laugh with her all the time because I had flour everywhere. The same happened when we made homemade pasta, but that is another recipe! ;)

Here's my veganized gnocchi!

Ingredients (for 4 or 5 people)

• 1 kg of potatoes (5 potatoes)
• 250 gr of flour [durum wheat... do you say that? :)]
• a pinch of salt

Directions

• Peel, boil, mash up potatoes and leave them to cool a bit - otherwise the dough will be too soft.
• Then add flour and salt and knead the dough you get.
• Cut it into slices and roll them on a pastry board. You'll get several long rolls: line them up and cut them oblique - a real homemade gnocco (singular for gnocchi) has an oblique cut. :)
• And now you're ready to cook them!

Cooking

• Bring water to the boil (with a pinch of salt) and then add your gnocchi.
• Since potatoes are already cooked, it will take a couple of minutes: when they come up, you know they're ready and you can take them with a skimmer.
• Now you can season them with a tomato sauce or some pesto or butter&sage (this is a classic! With a vegan butter, of course!) or whatever you like! :)

Buon appetito! :)

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Ciao ciao! :)

Stancaaa... versione italiana domani! :)