Gnocchi Recipe

How to make Gnocchi


  • Chef: Suresh Thampy
  • Restaurant: Saptami, Holiday Inn Mumbai International Airport
  • Recipe Servings: 2
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 50 mins
  • Total Cook Time: 1 hr
  • Difficulty Level: Medium


About Gnocchi Recipe: A true blue Italian dish, Gnocchi is a delicious dumpling-like dish that has a mild, delicate flavour. It is a versatile dish that can be served as a side dish as well as a main one. This gnocchi recipe is a tricolor special, made with saffron cream sauce tht is poured atop.

Ingredients Of Gnocchi

For Gnocchi:

2 nos potatoes
100 gms refined flour
2 nos egg
salt (as per taste)
For Saffron Cream Sauce:
100 ml milk
1 gms saffron
30 ml cream
20 gms parmesan cheese
10 gms butter
10 gms refined flour

How to Make Gnocchi

Prepare Gnocchi:

1.Take mixing bowl add refined flour mash potatoes and eggs.
2.Kneed well until smooth and soft.
Prepare soft dumplings:
1.Bring large pot of salted water to boil. Add dumplings cook for 3 to 5 minutes until gnocchi have risen to the top. Drain and serve.
2.Prepare Saffron cream sauce:
3.Take sauce pan, warm some olive oil add butter.
4.After melting butter add refined flour cook until light brown.
5.Add milk and heat well adds some parmesan cheese and saffron.
For serving:
1.Plate boiled gnocchi on plate add saffron cream sauce on top.

Key Ingredients: 

potatoes, refined flour, egg, salt (as per taste), milk, saffron, cream, parmesan cheese, butter, refined flour