Gnocchi with tomato sauce and goat's cheese

Tonight I made Homemade Gnocchi from Recipezaar



I'm really please because I found an method that makes them so easy to make I can have them from raw ingredients to the mouth in about 15 minutes (provided the potato was cooked before that is)!

Here's what I did:

I made the dough in my Kenwood Chef (marvel of the kitchen gadget world)...
first using the whisk beater to beat the potato and eggs and then using the dough hook when I added the other ingredients. I processed it until the dough was smooth.

Then I rolled the dough out on a floured board using a rolling pin until it was about 1/2 inch thick.
Next, I used a pizza wheel to cut the dough criss-cross, making little squares.
Much easier than rolling and cutting individual squares.









Finally I dusted the squares with flour - just enough to stop them sticking together.


Then the usual boil until risen to the surface + 10 seconds and voila!
A beautiful, tasty, homemade dish that my 2 year old loved! And the best tasting gnocchi I ever had.

I believe the rolling pin and pizza wheel trick make a lighter gnocchi as the dough is manipulated very little compared to the usual method.
I suppose purists would say that the little ridges are missing but it doesn't bother us!