Simple Gnocchi - Nhocão Stuffed -II options.

Simple Gnocchi - Nhocão Stuffed -II options.

I - Option:
ingredients:

Gnocchi Simple:
1 kilo of potatoes with boiled bark steamed, or cook in the microwave in plastic bag see previous recipe

Other Ingredients:

4 tablespoons flour, or necessary, to give the winding point
1 teaspoon (tsp) salt
1 tablespoon (soup) butter or margarine
2 large eggs
50 grams. grated Parmesan cheese

Prepare the dough mode:

Wash the potatoes unpeeled to take all the land, cut slightly in half to mark the circumference to facilitate the removal of the skin
Cook the potatoes steamed to stay without much water, or very small potatoes that are drier or own pink potato gnocchi.
You can use the aluminum rice colander to cook the potatoes.
If you want to cook the potatoes in the microwave see on my blog cooking mode
After the boiled potatoes, remove the peel while warm by pulling the skin on the sides, pass the potato masher or processor, or knead with a fork.
If you can pass quickly, each baked potato in running water to cool slightly.
Place in a bowl the squeezed potatoes, add butter, salt, eggs, one at a time, the grated cheese and lastly the flour gradually and slowly, mix well, to give point to curl.
Make long, thin rolls, the thickness of a finger.
Cut the gnocchi 1 cm, and sprinkle lightly with flour.
Place a pot on fire with 5 liters of cold water, and a spoon (soup) of oil.
When boiling go pouring gnocchi gradually and slowly, lower the heat.

When rise are cooked, leave, leave more 2 'minutes, remove with a slotted spoon and see if it is already in the right spot.
If you can do a test with 3 to 5 gnocchi to see the right spot.
If you get soft add more grated cheese and flour equal parts.
"If you put too much flour the gnocchi is hard."
If you get hard add a yolk or milk or cream or more potato., To achieve the desired point.
Once he tested the mass and it worked.
Do the same procedure.
To recapitulate:

When the gnocchi are cooked they climb comes up, cook for more 2'minutos.
Once cooked remove the gnocchi with a slotted spoon and pass to the colander to drain all the water.
If you do not have the right pot for cooking pasta (espagueteira), do as the previous mode.
Then pass the gnocchi to a platter, cover with tomato sauce with meat, sprinkle grated cheese on top.
To serve:
Serve hot accompanied by meat or baked chicken.
follows:
green salad, watercress with thinly sliced ​​red bell pepper, yellow and purple, or various vegetables.

Way of preparing:
With the same mass as simple gnocchi can do nhocão, stretching the dough very thin (one centimeter) in a floured clean napkin, put the filling and roll up like jelly roll, tie the ends with thick cotton string. See below the filling.
Cooking mode the Nhocão:
Place a large pot on the fire with water when boiling, put the nhocão carefully skirting the pan, let cook for 20'a 30'minutos.
If you can make two (2) lower.
Once cooked remove from the heat, carefully holding with thick gloves or dishcloth, moves to a cutting board, remove the napkin and go to a china plate or stainless steel.
Cover with enough tomato sauce with hot meat, sprinkle over grated Parmesan cheese, the thick drain.

Bake for 10'a 15'minutos, or until warm well, ie if necessary.
Serve hot.
Filling:
300 grams. mozzarella sliced
300 grams. of finely sliced ​​ham or
ground beef braised with spices or ground beef with various vegetables or braised chicken, among others.
You can put stuffing to taste without sauce, which will drain the wings.
Tomato sauce with meat:

500 g. of ground beef
500 g. grated onion or to taste
1 liter of homemade tomato sauce, or
1 industrialized sauce can with
3 cans of cold water
4 tablespoons (soup) of corn oil
2 tablespoons (soup) of processed onion cream soup, or broth.
1 tablespoon (soup) of oregano add after the ready sauce
1 teaspoon (tsp) salt, adding onion soup exclude salt
2 bouillon tablets (optional)
1 piece of cinnamon stick, put only 5 'minutes before finishing the sauce, then discard



Mode Prepare the sauce:
In a large pan fry the meat with oil, then add the onion and let it wither.
Add the broth and tomato sauce and other ingredients and finally the salt.
If you need to place one or more glass of water and simmer until a thick sauce and well cooked meat.
Before serving sprinkle enough salsa with chopped stem.

Bake for 10'a 15'minutos, or until warm well, ie if necessary.
Serve hot.