DISH RESEARCH · Noodle dish
Gnocchi di zucca
Also known as: Gnocchi di zucca PAT
GialloZafferano’s selected gnocchi di zucca combines cooked pumpkin and red potatoes with flour and two egg yolks. Remilled durum semolina helps shape and separate the small ridged dumplings.
About Gnocchi di zucca
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GialloZafferano’s selected gnocchi di zucca combines pumpkin with red potatoes in a soft dumpling dough. Pumpkin gives the pieces their orange colour, while two egg yolks and flour bind the mashed vegetables.
The unpeeled potatoes begin in cold salted water. Peeled pumpkin pieces join them partway through cooking, then both vegetables drain before they are mashed over the flour.
Egg yolks enter the mash, and the mixture is worked briefly into a cohesive dough. Semolina dusts the dough and working surface as portions are rolled into narrow ropes.
The ropes are cut into small pieces, lightly rounded and drawn over a ridged board or fork. More semolina helps keep the shaped dumplings separate on their holding tray.
Butter and sage are one suggested pairing for these pumpkin gnocchi. Their shape and tender vegetable dough also suit other dressings, keeping the pumpkin-and-potato mixture central to the dish.
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