Pan Fried Gnocchi
Posted by terrepruitt on October 12, 2016
When I get home at noon on Wednesday it seems like the day goes by really quick. I am working on my Nia routine for class the next day. I am working on the stretch routine for class the next day. I might have to put together something for yoga for the class the next day. Plus I have a blog post I would like to write. So I just don’t have a lot of time to think about dinner. Well, tonight was one of those nights. I hadn’t even really thought about a blog post during the day. And I was making up dinner as I was cooking it. I really didn’t know what I was doing. Cooking the steak we have is always an adventure. I hadn’t really thought about a blog post as I was flying by the seat of my pants as I cooked dinner. At the last minute I thought well this might work and I snapped a couple of pictures. I didn’t really know how I was going to cook the meat or gnocchi. I had taken out two packages of meat. I thought each one was a steak, but it turned out each one was two cuts of meat. Yay. Now, we have dinner for tomorrow, well at least the meat part. I always try to have some gnocchi in the freezer, I thought it would go well with the steak. But I wanted it different – normally I just boil it. I thought after I boiled it I could pan fry it, to give it that crispy brown. My friend taught me that.
I have a friend who used to make . . . now I don’t even remember what type of gnocchi was . . . I think it was butternut squash gnocchi. Perhaps it was sweet potato. I didn’t even like gnocchi until she gave it to me. She apologize when she gave it to me because “it didn’t turn out right” and she recommended pan frying it. I thought, “Ok, whatever.” It wasn’t potato gnocchi so I thought it must be better cooked differently. Turns out ALL gnocchi is better cooked that way. But her gnocchi was THE BEST. It was sooooooo yummy.
Most gnocchi has to be boiled first and then it can be pan fried. Well, that is the way I like it best. With a little bit of browning on it. I had never done such a large batch before and some of it broke up and got a little mushy, but then the mush browned so I was ok with that. I threw in some kale and it rounded off our steak great.
Do you like potato gnocchi? Do you like it boiled? Have you ever tried browning it?
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