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Tomato Gnocchi

These little potato dumplings are fun to make with the family and with the tomato sauce make a lovely vegetarian dinner.

Ingredients​

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Gnocchi

  • 200g of dry potato mash (best way is to bake 2 medium potatoes and then scoop out the cooked middle)

  • 200g Plain Flour

  • 1 egg

Tomato sauce

  • 1 Onion diced

  • 500g Passata

  • 1 Red Pepper diced

  • 1Tsp Garlic Paste

  • ½ Tsp Oregano

  • ¼ Tsp Salt

  • ¼ Tsp Pepper

Topping

  • A ball of Mozzarella

What do we need?

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  • Weighing scales

  • Tablespoon

  • Fork

  • Scissors

  • One large bowl 

  • Large saucepan with lid

  • Wooden spoon or Spatula for stirring

  • Oven dish

Tia's tip

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We found it easier to roll and cut the gnocchi with a little flour sprinkled on the worktop

What do we do?

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Making the Gnocchi

  1. Put the potato into the bowl and mash up with the fork

  2. Add the flour

  3. Break the egg into the bowl and stir with the fork

  4. Put your hands in the bowl and squeeze the dough together until it forms a ball

  5. Cut the dough into four sections

  6. Roll out one section into a sausage shape until it is about 1-inch round

  7. Cut the dough with scissors into pieces around 1½ cm wide

  8. Take a piece of dough and run down a fork

 

For the Tomato Sauce

  1. Preheat the oven to 200 C / Gas 6

  2. Chop the onion into small cubes. The easiest way is to put half an onion flat side down on the chopping board. Cut from the root outwards (do not cut through the root) then cut across the onion the other way

  3. Put the onion and pepper into the saucepan with the oil, cook for two minutes

  4. Add the garlic paste, oregano, salt and pepper into the saucepan and cook for a further minute

  5. Add the gnocchi, stir gently and put the lid on the saucepan

  6. Simmer the gnocchi for 15 mins, if the sauce starts looking dry add a little water

  7. Pour out the gnocchi and sauce into the oven proof dish

  8. Break up the mozzarella and put it on the top of the gnocchi

  9. Bake in the oven for around 10mins until the cheese has melted and is bubbling

 

Serve and enjoy!

IProperty of Cooking Pioneersy.

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