Gnocchi di Potate

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Gnocchi di Potate

Recipe By : My Family Memories
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
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Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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5 large potatoes ( 2 pounds) -- peel
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups uunbleached all-purpose -- flour

Wah and peeled the potatoes, cook until soft.Them they are still quite warm
and put them through a potato ricer or mash them with a fork.
( Do mash them in a food processor.) Put potatoes into a large bowl and season
with salt. Add 1 1/2 cups of the flour, a little at a time, and mix well with
your hands and the potatoes stick together into a rough dough.
Transfer the mixture to a wooden board and knead lightly, gradually to the
board and to your hands. knead the dough for 2 to 3 minutes until it is
smooth, pliable, and just a bit sticky.
Divide the dough into several egual pieces about the size of a orange. Flour
your hands lightly. ( Do not flour the area or the dough will not slide
smoothly). Using both hands, roll out each piece of dough with a light back-
and forth motion into a roll of about the thickness of your index finger. Cut
each roll into 1- inch pieces.
Hold a fork with its tines against a work board, the curved part of the fork
facing away from you.
Starting from the curved outside bottom of the fork, press each piece of dough
with your index finger firmly upward along the length of the tines. Let the
gnocchi fall back onto the work surface. Repeat with remaining pieces of dough
until all gnocchi have been formed. Place the gnocchi on a lightly floured
platter or cookie sheet. They can be cooked immediately or kept in the
refrigerator, uncovered, for several hours or overnight

Serve with your favor sauce

PS. I still remenber, when I was a little girl, my mother always give the the
fork for me to shape it.

formated and translate from My Family Memories from portugues to english
by Iara
from my Family Memories

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