Pillowy soft, bite sized pieces of delicious with melt-in-your-mouth texture and only 6 ingredients. Once you try this homemade sweet potato gnocchi you won't ever go back!
Ingredients
- 1 ea large sweet potato peeled, and cut into 1” cubes (~1 Cup mashed)
- 2 ea cloves of garlic
- ¼ cup olive oil divided
- ¾ cup gluten free flour
- 1 tsp salt
- ¼ cup water
- optional: ⅓ cup shredded parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, add peeled + cubed sweet potato, garlic cloves and olive oil in a large mixing bowl. Stir to combine.
- Spread in a single layer on the parchment-lined baking tray, and move to the oven. Bake at 350F for 40 minutes. Or until you can easily pierce sweet potatoes with a fork. Remove from the oven and let cool completely
- In a large food processor, blend sweet potatoes and garlic until a ball forms and there are no large pieces of potato visible. Add flour and salt and blend until there are no dry spots. If mixture doesn’t form a ball, add water, 1 tablespoon at a time until a ball forms. You may not use all the water.
- When a ball forms, remove dough from the food processor and form into a flattened ball, approximately 1 ½” thick. Dough should not be sticky and should be easy to handle. Cut shape into equal quarters. Role each quarter into a ¾” diameter rope. Cut each rope into ¾” lengths. If desired, use a fork to imprint and flatten each length. These are your gnocchi!
- Bring a medium sized pot of water to boil. Add 15-20 pieces at a time to the boiling water. Remove from water into a colander once all the pieces are floating on top (2-3 min.) Add drained gnocchi to a large bowl and toss with a tablespoon of olive oil. Repeat this process until all gnocchi have been boiled. Use enough olive oil so that all gnocchi are lightly coated and don’t stick to each other.
- Spread gnocchi in a single layer on a parchment linked baking tray. Optional: sprinkle shredded parmesan or other cheese over top of gnocchi. Move to the oven and bake at 450F, or until gnocchi begins to brown (~15-20 min.)
Notes
- Serve as is from the oven or with any desired sauce.
- Gnocchi can also be pan fried/sauteed in a skillet after boiling instead of baked.
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