
This is true comfort food. If we had to describe it, we would call it the grown ups equivalent to macaroni cheese. Delicious light fluffy potato gnocchi drowned in a rich creamy blue cheese sauce, with a crunchy parmesan crumb crust.
The great thing is that it can be all done in the Steam Oven with ease.
If you don’t have a steam oven, you can boil large chunks of potato,or bake the potatoes whole and then scoop out; and you can boil the pasta but make sure you remove the gnocchi from the boiling water as soon as they come to the surface.
METHOD
- Set oven to 100C full steam and steam potatoes until very soft ( appox 30minutes)
- Pass potato through sieve or ricer
- Add egg and ½ cup flour sprinkle of nutmeg and salt.
- Turn out onto floured board and begin to knead, adding more flour until the dough is not sticky but still very soft.
- Roll into long log and slice small portions off . Roll in flour and across back of fork to obtain ridges in each piece.
- Place gnocchi on baking paper lined tray
- Steam for 8 minutes at 100C after oven is up to temperature.
- Add garlic and a drop of olive oil to frying pan and add garlic and heat through.
- Add cream,sage leaves then crumbled blue cheese and parmesan, salt nutmeg and black pepper and heat until melted .
- Take steamed gnocchi and place in casserole dish. Pour over cream mixture.
- Top with Panko and more parmesan cheese
- Grill for 6-8 minutes until crispy and golden
500gms agria potato, peeled and chopped into small cubes
1 egg
Up to 1 cup 00 flour
1/2 t salt
Sprinkle of fresh grated nutmeg
2 cloves garlic crushed,
1 cup cream
50-75 gms blue cheese
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese.
1/2 t grated fresh nutmeg
5-6 sage leaves
Salt
Black pepper
½ cup panko crumbs