Yellow gnocchi al pesto
Instructions
Prepare pesto: wash the basil leaves and dry them gently with a cloth; put in a blender peeled garlic, pine nuts, walnuts Pecans and blend the mixture well; combine the Basil, a pinch of salt and blend the mixture until the mixture is well blended; pour it into a bowl, add the grated cheese and, slowly, olive oil Extra Virgin stirring constantly.
Prepare the gnocchi: bring to a boil 1 litre of water and a quarter; Add salt and pour, rain, the flour, stirring constantly with a spatula or a wooden spoon; continue cooking for 45 minutes.
Remove the Pan from the heat, add the butter divided into pieces, the Parmesan grated cheese and mix well by mixing the ingredients.
Form the gnocchi with the help of two tablespoons moistened from time to time, in boiling water so that the mixture does not stick.
Butter a baking dish from oven, spread over a tablespoon of pesto, deploy the dumplings in a single layer and brush with a little melted butter; When serving, lightly Browning them in a preheated oven at 180 degrees and one minute before you remove them from the oven with remaining pesto irrorarli.
Ingredients and dosing for 4 persons
- For the gnocchi:
- 300 g of corn flour
- 40 g of butter
- 3 tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese
- Salt
- Pesto:
- 100 g of basil leaves
- 1 clove of garlic
- 15 g of pine nuts
- Kernels 3 of nuts
- 5 tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese
- 15 cl of olive oil extra virgin
- Salt
- For the pan:
- 20 g of butter