Servings: 2 servings 1x
Ingredients
- 1 medium-large sweet potato (about 1/2 lb)
- 1 egg (can sub 1 flax egg)
- 1/2 cup cassava flour (can sub 1 cup regular AP flour)
Instructions
- Peel the sweet potato and cut into large cubes
- Place sweet potato in a sauce pan with a little water and steam until soft enough to easily pierce with a fork – about 10 minutes
- Remove sweet potato from pan and place on a plate
- Place in the fridge for 1 hour until the sweet potato is completely cold
- Smash the cold sweet potato with a potato masher or the back of a fork
- Take 3/4 cup of the mashed sweet potato and place on a cutting board and shape into a ring (see chart below to see how you should do this)
- Crack an egg into the center of the ring and whisk with a fork
- Mix the sweet potato and egg together
- Pour flour on top of the sweet potato and egg mixture
- Mix flour into the egg and sweet potato and knead until a smooth, even dough ball remains ***If using all-purpose flour add 1/2 cup of flour to the mixture first and knead. Then, add 1/4 cup of flour at a time and continue kneading the dough until an even dough forms – you should use close to 1 cup of flour total***
- Cut dough ball into quarters
- Take one quarter and place on a floured cutting board
- Roll into a long tube and cut 1″ gnocchi pieces from the tube
- Roll each piece on a pasta board or the back of a fork
- Repeat this process until all 4 quarters of the dough are used
- Boil salted water and add gnocchi to the boiling water
- Once the gnocchi floats to the top it is cooked
- Remove the gnocchi from the pot with a slotted spoon
- Enjoy the gnocchi boiled or pan fry by heating butter or oil in a frying pan over medium heat and cook the gnocchi in batches until browned on all sides
Notes
If you want to freeze this dough for later I recommend freezing after you cut into gnocchi, but before you cook.
This website provides approximate nutrition information for convenience and as a courtesy only. Nutrition data is gathered primarily from the USDA Food Composition Database, whenever available, or otherwise other online calculators.