Gnocchi di patate

I love gnocchi! In North of Italy, where I come from, potatoes gnocchi are a typical dish.

I seen making gnocchi at home and I have partecipated in making gnocchi since I was a little girl, it is one of those things you do not make yourself but the whole family participate... working in a chain... and having fun.

I remember my grandma was making the gnocchi dough, my aunt was making long small salami, then cutting them in small pieces. My mom, my dad and I (and my brothers and counsins) were helping rolling gnocchi on the back of a Parmigiano grater och a fork, as I did in this case.

And we were then moving the gnocchi onto a clean kitchen towel, all in line, ready to be boiled. It was a lot of fun and one of those memory I will never forget.

Still now when I go home and my mom makes gnocchi, we all help.

Here is the recipe...

POTATOES GNOCCHI
Ingredients (for 4 people): 500 g potatoes, salt, 1 egg,
3 Tbsp flour (or as more if you need).

Boil the potatoes with the skin on. When they are cooked,
take the skin of and press them with a potato press.
Mix with 1 egg, salt and some flour (not too much, you
do not want the gnocchi to taste flour). Make gnocchi and
cook them in salted boiling water until they come up to
the surface, then you can take them out of the water.

When we make gnocchi in my family we also make a very good meat ragù, it is a classic, as "nonna" used to make it. But I also like gnocchi with butter and salvia... just delicious!