Ingredients
You will need (for two):
- 300g waxy potatoes
- Small handful (roughly 20-30 leaves) wild garlic, blended or very finely chopped
- 100g plain flour
- Salt and pepper
- 25g Parmesan, grated
- 125g mozzarella
- 2-3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
If you’re not sure where to find some take a look at this to find places where wild garlic grows near you.
Method
Peel and dice the potatoes to roughly the same size then boil them in salted water until tender.
Drain the potatoes then leave them to cool (take the lid off the pan to allow steam to escape).
Mash the potatoes well then add the flour, most of the wild garlic, plenty of salt and pepper and the Parmesan. Mix together until you have a dough.
Knead the dough lightly then roll into sausage shapes and cut into roughly inch sized pieces. I pressed the top of each gnocchi with a fork, for looks more than anything.
Bring a pan of water to a simmer and place the gnocchi in gently. Simmer until the gnocchi rise to the top of the water. Remove them as they rise.
Add the extra virgin olive oil to the remaining wild garlic and blend (or mix) together.
Place the gnocchi on a plate, or in a bowl, and tear the mozzarella over the top. Drizzle over the wild garlic oil and serve.
I’d never made gnocchi before and I don’t know why I thought it was so scary. It was very simple and the dough was really nice to handle. The nerves did get going a bit when the wild garlic gnocchi were added to the water as I had heard they can just break apart but it all went very well. The texture and flavour were great and I liked the delicate colour of the dish too. Because the potato and mozzarella are subtle it really gave the wild garlic a chance to shine; slightly grassy and undeniably garlicky.
Yummy! I can only imagine how great such home made gnocchi taste!
Mouth = watering. Just imagining all that garlic! I hope to try foraging in the future, I’m going to start by growing my own veg and herbs next year (ok, completely unrelated but it’s a move away from supermarkets at least!) xxx
La Lingua : Food, Life, Love, Travel, Friends, Italy
Wow that looks so great. Wild garlic and gnocchi are two of my favourite things. I’ll have to find some of the beautiful stuff at a market this weekend to make that! x
Wow, nice to hear about having to pluck those wild garlic. Wish I can have the same adventure over here. And the dish with it? yum and heavenly.
Oh my, this looks so tasty!!
Sophie
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What a lovely way to use wild garlic.
Love wild garlic! This is so yum and healthy.
This looks and sounds like a truly wonderful dish! We love foraging for food.
This garlic oil is such a delicious idea, it looks perfectly on the gnocchi 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
I’ve hear about wild garlic, never had it though. My sister was just talking about it and now you 🙂 I’m gonna have to look for it…
Ah, gnocchi…men, they must be good with that garlic and mozzarella!
🙂 ela@GrayApron
Now that sounds really good! Very much your characteristic style too, Caroline – especially with the foraged Wild Garlic.
I love wild garlic and his looks super. what a great idea to put it with Gnocchi!
wow, you’re making your own gnocchi! that’s great ..i hv never tried doing it myself! a garlicky flavour of gnocchi sounds lovely to me 🙂
That looks delicious, I saw the wild garlic was still going strong on my walk this morning so I will put this on my to do list!
i’ve seen wild garlic growing but i’ve never actually eaten it. this preparation sounds great!
I just so happen to have wild garlic in the fridge! Can’t wait to mix it in with some gnocchi! What a fabulous meal.
This sounds delicious! I didn’t know there was such a thing as wild garlic…will have to be on the lookout 🙂
Oh goodness, these sound good. I only managed to make some wild garlic pesto this year, but next year this gnocchi may well be appearing.
Me gustó su receta se ve muy delicioso,abrazos