Gnocchi alla Romana

Gnocchi are small potato dumplings most commonly associated with Italian cuisine. They are often considered a type of pasta and can be served with traditional pasta sauces, although they are really a pasta alternative and can be served in many different ways.
Gave a twist by adding some vegetables🍄 and added some cheese slices for my son to enjoy it🧀

Gnocchi alla Romania

Potatoes boiled 3-4 meduim size

Wheat flour 3/4 cup

Large tomatoes 3

Onion chopped 1 nos.

Button mushrooms 8-10

Yellow bell pepper 1/4 cup 

Green bell pepper 1/4 cup

Salt to taste

Black pepper 2 tsp

Garlic crushed 3 tsp

Coriander 1 tsp

Milk 2-3 tsp

oil 2 -3 tbsp

Oregano 1 tsp

Oil 1-2 tsp

Grated cheese 

How to cook Gnocchi Alla Romana ~ Eggless

Wash the veggies, dice the bell peppers and mushrooms, crush garlic and chop onions. Keep this ready.

Blanch tomatoes. Make two slits on the tomato and keep immersed in hot water for 5-10 minutes. Peel the skin off.

Boil potatoes and peel the skin, mash by pushing through a sieve, to give smooth texture.

Mix together mashed potatoes, 1 tsp of crushed garlic, parsley, wheat flour and knead into a smooth dough.

Use milk if mixture looks dry. Cover and Keep aside for 5-10 minutes.

Make small marble sized balls of the dough. Rub them on the back of the fork to form a pattern. Cover with a kitchen towel.

Boil 1 litre water with some salt. When the water is boiling hot, put 8-10 gnocchi In it. 

As soon as they get cooked, gnocchi will float on to. Remove them in a bowl. Cook all the gnocchi. Let them cool. 

In a pan saute remaining garlic, onion and cook till golden colour. Put in a mixer with blanched tomatoes and grind to smooth paste.

In the pan add some oil and saute mushrooms and capsicum. Sprinkle some salt and pepper, mix and keep aside

Now assemble the gnocchi in an oven safe deep dish by spreading some sauce in bottom of the pan.

Then layer gnocchi, veggies then cheese.  Spread all the sauce on top and sprinkled some freshly chopped coriander.

Bake in a preheated oven on 180C for 20 minutes.

Covered the baking dish with banana leaves or foil and then put lid and put in the oven to bake.

After 20 minutes remove from oven and serve.

Cover and cook for 10-15 minutes and cook without lid for 8-10 minutes.

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