Sweet Potato Gnocchi Recipe: Easy and Healthy Gluten Free!

Gnocchi is a typical pasta from Italy, made with potatoes or manioc flour and usually served with some kind of sauce. In this sense, today you will learn a gluten free sweet potato gnocchi recipe which is a variation of that dish. So, see how easy it is to prepare and super healthy.

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Gnocchi made with sweet potatoes

The preparation time for this recipe is 1h30, as it requires a cooking time. As for yield, it serves six generous servings of gnocchi. Anyway, check out the ingredients and method of preparation below.

Ingredients

• 1 kg sweet potato
• Maize starch
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon salt

Method of preparation

1. First, put the potato to cook and wait until it softens;
2. Next, knead with a fork or pass through a juicer, then add the egg and cornstarch, and mix well;
3. Knead with your hands until the mixture is no longer sticking to them;
4. Then, take some pieces of the dough and roll them into a 1 cm diameter tube;
5. Cut the dough into small pieces of equal sizes;
6. Afterwards, fill half a pan with water and salt, place over medium heat and wait for it to boil, then start putting the gnocchi to cook;
7. When the gnocchi begin to float on the surface of the pan, they are ready. Thus, remove as they rise and place them in a colander;
8. Finally, prepare a tomato sauce and pour it over the gnocchi to serve.

Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 kg of tomatoes
• 2 minced garlic cloves
• 1 chopped white onion
• salt to taste
• 1 pinch of sugar

Method of preparation

1. Clean the tomatoes, cut them into 8 pieces and place them in a pressure cooker (do not remove the seeds or skin);
2. Then add the onion, garlic, salt and sugar;
3. Soon after, cover with water and let it cook for 10 minutes after taking pressure;
4. That done, open the pan carefully and put all the contents in the blender, then beat until you get a cream;
5. Pass the sauce through a sieve, take it back to the fire and wait for it to thicken;
6. Finally turn off the heat, pour the sauce over the gnocchi and serve the preparation.