Sweet Potato Grilled Gnocchi
Tired of plain old gnocchi? These homemade sweet potato gnocchi are pan-grilled until golden, then tossed with garlicky spinach and pesto for a simple, super delicious main ready in about 40 minutes.
Ingredients
- 1 sweet potato boiled and mashed
- 1 cup flour plus more for dusting
- ½ head garlic cloves peeled and minced
- 1 ½ cups spinach
- 2 Tbsp pesto
- Italian seasoning herb mix to taste
- olive oil for cooking
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix the mashed sweet potato with the flour, season with salt and pepper, and knead into a dough.
- Roll the gnocchi - check out this guide on how to make gnocchi.
- Cook in boiling water. Take them out as soon as they rise to the top and transfer to an oiled, hot grill pan for a few seconds, just until they get grill marks.
- In a separate pan, heat up 2 Tbsp of olive oil with the minced garlic and cook the spinach.
- Add the gnocchi, pesto, and dry herb mix of choice, then season with salt and pepper.
- Stir everything together and take off the heat.
Notes
Gnocchi are done as soon as they float to the top - scoop them out right away so they don't turn mushy. You can also freeze the raw gnocchi on a floured tray and cook them straight from frozen.