Gnocchi with bolognese sauce

How to cook the potato gnocchi: Wash the potatoes well and cook them with their skins on. This will prevent the potato from absorbing too much water during cooking. How to know the exact moment when they are cooked? When a knife is inserted into the potato and lifted, the potato drops effortlessly. Once cooked, remove them quickly from the pan and peel them without burning. (A tip to achieve this is: prick the potato with a fork and remove the skin with a knife).

How to make the potato gnocchi dough: once cooked and peeled, the potato should be mashed with a potato masher or a fork. It is important to do this process with the potato hot, since it hardens when it cools down. Then, in a bowl and placing the potatoes in a circle (leaving a space in the middle), add the flour, salt and nutmeg to taste. There we begin to knead and mix the ingredients so that everything forms a homogeneous dough.

How to assemble the shape of the potato gnocchi: taking small pieces of the mountain of dough, turn them on the table with flour until they form long and thin tubes. They cut gnocchi of two and a half centimeters long and place them on another part of the table with a layer of flour. There is when, with the flour (always use it) in between, we pass the gnocchi through the tines of the fork pressing lightly with the thumb. We let them rest again on the floured table, and there we turn on the fire to heat the pot filled with water and covered.

How to cook the potato gnocchi on the stove: when the water starts to boil, we must uncover it and add 2 or 3 tablespoons of coarse salt. Then, little by little, we pour the gnocchi with the help of a skimmer. When the gnocchi rise to the surface (i.e. float to the top of the water), it means that they are ready.

SAUCE : In a frying pan add oil and brown the onion with the bell pepper. Remove and in the same frying pan add the ground beef, let it cook for a while. Finally add the vegetables to the meat and add the sauce or tomato puree with 2 glasses of water, make it very liquid so that it does not stick or get too thick and add the seasoning to taste, leave it for 30 minutes or more. Finally remove from heat, add the gnocchi to a bowl with the sauce and grated cheese (optional cream) and ready to ENJOY!!!💖✨️