Pumpkin Gnocchi Recipe

I’m still here talking about pumpkin! Did you know that only 42% of British adults surveyed knew that pumpkin was edible? Well, it’s not only edible, it’s delicious, so here’s one final pumpkin recipe for you to try out with your left over pumpkin. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 600g of fresh pumpkin
• 400g potato (peeled and chopped)
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 260g flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp nutmeg

Method:

1. Chop your pumpkin into small cubes and add to a baking sheet with the olive oil. Bake at 200°C (400°F) for about 30 minutes, until soft.
2. In a large pot, boil your potatoes until soft, or for about 20 minutes.
3. When your pumpkin and potato are cooked, mash them in a bowl using a potato masher or a fork, or press them through a sieve.
4. Once smooth, add the flour, salt and nutmeg.
5. Bring this together with a wooden spoon or spatula, and then begin to knead until the dough is smooth – add a little more flour if you need, but don’t add too much or overmix your dough.
6. Separate the dough into strips and roll into long sausage shapes.
7. Then, cut the sausages into small pieces. You can then make them gnocchi shaped using a fork or a gnocchi board, or you can just leave them as squares.
8. The easiest way to do this is to add them to a tray or plate with some flour on it, to make sure that they don’t all stick together.
9. Once you’ve finished assembling the gnocchi, bring a large pot of water to the boil. Add your gnocchi a little bit at a time and wait until they float to the surface until you add more. Remove them from the water with a slotted spoon.
10. You can either set them aside if you want to pan fry them, or you can immediately add them to your choice of sauce.
11. All done! I love to serve these with a sage butter, which is exactly what it sounds like – sage and butter (or in my case margarine). Alternatively you could pair them with pesto. If you want to pan fry them, simply add to a pan with some butter or oil and pan-fry until golden brown.

All done! I hope you enjoyed this recipe, and all the others that I’ve done featuring pumpkin! Hopefully this will help you to make use of that left over pumpkin… Happy Halloween!