Home Made Gnocchi with Rucola and Tomatosauce

If I am feeling like I need a little holiday between two work days I love to cook italian food. A few days ago we had some nice home made gnocchi with a perfect sauce. I don't give excact cooking instructions because we also made it freestyle. 

Cut the tomatos in pieces, gently roast the onion and the garlic (both finely chopped) in a saucepan, put the tomatos in too, mash them, put in thyme, salt and pepper and heat to a gentle simmer. 

The gnocchi are quite easy as well. Mix the ingredients to get a dough. Roll it. Cut it into little pieces. Best if you cook the gnocchi in batches by dropping them into boiling water. They will let you know when they are cooked because they pop back up to the top. Fish the poped up ones out of the water with a slotted spoon. Keep a plate ready to put them on. Best if the plate is preheated.

{For the sauce you need 1kg tomatos, 1 onion, 4 garlic cloves, good olive oil, fresh thyme, salt & pepper}

 

{For the gnocchi you need 1 kg tender cooked & mashed potatoes, 2 eggs, salt, 200g flour & keep rollin', rollin', rollin'

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{Serves 4 persons}

{Put much more rucola on it! I forgot to take a pic of my first plate and sadly we only had a little bit of rucola left.}

Buon Appetito!!