Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, homemade ricotta gnocchi with cherry tomatoes and basil sauce. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook homemade ricotta gnocchi with cherry tomatoes and basil sauce using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Homemade Ricotta Gnocchi With Cherry Tomatoes and Basil sauce:
- Prepare For The Sauce
- Take 500 g Cherry tomatoes, quartered
- Prepare 2 big garlic cloves, crushed
- Get 10 tbsp vegetable stock
- Make ready 1 tsp caster sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp chopped fresh basil or 2 tsp dried basil
- Get For The Gnocchi
- Take 250 g ricotta cheese
- Make ready 250 g low fat cheese
- Make ready 50 g parmasan cheese
- Prepare 200 g plain flour
- Get Salt to taste
- Get Freshly ground black pepper to taste
- Make ready Fresh basil to garnish
Steps to make Homemade Ricotta Gnocchi With Cherry Tomatoes and Basil sauce:
- For the sauce add all the ingredients to a saucepan over medium heat-high. Bring to boiling point, then reduce heat and simmer partially covered with a lid for 10-12 minutes until sauce is slightly thickened.
- Bring a large pot of boiling water ready to boil the gnocchi.
- To make the gnocchi, in a bowl using a wooden spoon mix the ricotta, soft cheese, parmasan cheese and season with salt and pepper.
- From the flour set aside 4 teaspoons to roll the dough then mix the rest of the flour into the cheese mixture. Mix to make a soft but not sticky dough.
- Divide the dough into 8 equal balls. Then dust a worktop surface lightly with the reserved flour and roll each ball out into a long sausage shape, should measure appropriately 2cm in thickness and 30cm long
- Line the gnocchi rolls then cut into approximately 2cm chunks.
- Drop the gnocchi balls into the large saucepan of boiling water. Bring back to a boiling point then reduce heat and simmer for 2 minutes. Note that as the gnocchi cooks they will rise to the surface of the water.
- Use a draining spoon to lift the cooked gnocchi from the boiling water (they'll be too soft and may break if drained in the colander).
- Divide into 4 bowls and spoon the sauce over the gnocchi to serve. Sprinkle with salt and freshly cracked pepper and garnish with basil if desired.
- Serve with a green salad on the side.
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