Potato Gnocchi with Pumpkin and Sage Butter Sauce
Italian potato dumplings in a flavorful pumpkin sage sauce.
Category
Main Course
Prep
30 minutes
Cook
30 minutes
Style
Italian
Technique
Boiling
Diet Friendly
Vegetarian
Daily recipe · December 19, 2023
A little about this dish
This Italian inspired, Potato Gnocchi with Pumpkin and Sage Butter Sauce, is a fresh twist on a traditional dish. We're putting a seasonal spin on the dish with the incorporation of pumpkin, which will enhance the savory potato experience.
Ingredients (for 4)
- Large potatoes — 2 — peeled and chopped
- Egg yolks — 2
- All-purpose flour — 1.5 cups
- Salt — 1 tsp
- Pumpkin — 1 cup — puréed
- Unsalted butter — 1/2 cup
- Fresh sage leaves — 15
- Parmesan cheese — 3/4 cup — grated
- Garlic cloves — 3 — minced
- Freshly ground black pepper — to taste
- Olive oil — for drizzling
Preparation
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Step 1 — 🥔💧😌Boil the 2 large, peeled and chopped potatoes until tender. Mash them and let them cool completely.
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Step 2 — 🥚🍚🍴Mix the mashed potatoes with the 2 egg yolks, 1.5 cups of all-purpose flour, and 1 tsp of salt to create a dough. Divide it into four parts and shape into long cylinders.
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Step 3 — ✂️🥔🍴Cut the cylinders into 1-inch pieces and press with a fork to make ridges. These are your gnocchi. Put them aside.
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Step 4 — 🍳🌱🧄In a large frypan, melt the 1/2 cup unsalted butter. Toss in the 15 fresh sage leaves and let them crisp up. Then, stir in the 3 minced garlic cloves.
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Step 5 — 🎃🥄🔥Add the 1 cup of pumpkin purée into the sage-garlic butter, stir well and let it simmer for about 5 minutes.
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Step 6 — 🍲🥔💧Boil the gnocchi until they float to the surface, then drain them.
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Step 7 — 🥔🎃🥄Toss the cooked gnocchi in the pumpkin-sage-garlic sauce.
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Step 8 — 🧀🌶️🫒Serve the gnocchi with a plentiful top-up of 3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, a sprinkle of freshly ground black pepper, and a drizzle of olive oil.
A final fox tip
This dish could easily be made vegan by substituting the egg yolks with a vegan binding mixture, like flaxseed and water, and the Parmesan cheese with nutritional yeast. It's a fun dish to prepare with kids—they especially enjoy shaping the gnocchi!