twigg studios

A British baking blog, food photography

sweet potato and ricotta gnocchi

Uncategorized

gnocchi is really easy to make at home and its a great way to use up left over potatoes, i decided to use sweet potatoes for this recipe.

to make the dough you will need
2 large potatoes
95g to start then add more until it forms a firm dough (about 1 and 1/4 cups)
50g ricotta
salt and pepper
1 egg
sprig of thyme

first you need to cook the potatoes until they are soft, then dig out the centres and mash, or use a potato ricer and leave to cool, (i pricked mine and cooked them in the microwave for several minutes)
once cooled put them in a bowl with the ricotta, flour and egg and add some salt and pepper and a sprig of thyme.
knead into a firm dough
(add the flour a 1/4 cup at a time until the dough is workable)

roll the dough into a rope shape and cut it into pieces

i used butter paddles to roll them up, if you don’t have these then use a fork
(these butter paddles where my great grandmothers)

 to cook them boil them in a pan of water until they float. about 2 minutes
then add some olive oil into a frying pan and fry them on each side until they are golden.
sew chatty
not just a housewife
sew can do

You might also like

SIGN UP TO GET MY NEWSLETTER

Reader Interactions

5 Comments

  2. Those look and sound lovely. I like the idea of using sweet potatoes. Thanks for sharing at Silver Pennies Sundays. x

  3. Hi!
    You need 95g of what to start? Is it the flour? You don’t mentioned the amount.
    I was watching your stories on instagram, and wanted to cook that gnocchis. I love your recipes 🙂
    Thank you for sharing.

    • Yes flour. I didn’t use this recipe on my stories though I used one tub of ricotta, 1 egg and about 1-2 cup to 3-4 cup pumpkin purée then I added half a cup of flour mixed it and added another half a cup and mixed it and then added a little until it was manageable (you don’t want to add too much flour so just add a little at a time) I’m doing to do a proper blog post on it soon

Get in the know.
Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates.
As a welcome you will receive my presentation on visual storytelling
Thank you for subscribing!