gnocchi (potato dumplings) with meat sauce
(Our original home cooking)

Gnocchi con sugo di carne

Gnocchi (potato dumplings) with meat sauce Our original home cooking

gnocchi (potato dumplings) combined with meat sauce, the photo shows the Italian gnocchi on a white plain dish — Gnocchi (potato dumplings) with meat sauce

yeld for 4

200 g (7 1/4oz) minced beef meat
100 g (3 1/2oz) raw ham in a piece
400 g (14 1/4oz) puréed tomatoes
1 dried bay leaf
2 tablespoons dried chives
1 tablespoon dried parsley
60 g (2 1/4oz) onion, chopped
100 ml (3 1/2fl oz) red wine
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Salt

Time:
preparation: 15 minutes
cooking: 40 minutes
total: 55 minutes
Difficulty:
easy recipe
Nutrition Facts (amount per serving):
Calories: 689 (kCal) 35 % GDA (*) - 2883 (kJ)
Protein: 29.8 (g) 60 % GDA
Total fat: 22.1 (g) 32 % GDA
Total carbohydrate: 99.0 (g) 37 % GDA
Sugars: 5.8 (g) 7 % GDA

The best way to eat fresh potato dumplings is combining them with a meat sauce. We are used to prepare a very simple sauce that can be cooked quickly. In other words it isn't necessary to cook it for long time as it happens with our Italian ragù, well known all over the world (Bolognese sauce).
Besides we put all the ingredients except the olive oil in a pan without frying lightly onions in the olive oil. It's a cooking technique ideal to preserve the nutritional properties of every ingredients.
Here's the recipe!

Prepare the ham. Pass the ham in the meat grinder. If you haven't the meat grinder at home ask your butcher to make it.

Cook the sauce. Put the minced meat, ham, aromatic herbs, puréed tomatoes, onion and wine in a pan. Add 100 ml (3 1/2fl oz) water too. Season to taste with salt and bring to the boil. Keep on cooking, half-covered, on low heat, stirring now and then until the sauce has the right consistency. It mustn't dry out.
Switch off the gas, add the olive oil and stir.

Note

- Look at the video for more detail about the way to make potato dumplings and the right consistency of the sauce.
- In summer use fresh aromatic herbs for a better taste.
- Read our page about the potato dumplings without eggs to know how to cook them and combine correctly with the sauce.

What's the right wine ?

Our suggestion is: Dolcetto d'Asti (red wine of Piedmont)