Potato Gnocchi with
Fresh Tomato Sugo

Recipe by Chef Danielle Alvarez

Chef Danielle Alvarez demystifies making handmade potato gnocchi at home, served with a fresh tomato sugo, basil and parmesan cheese: “You’re not going to believe how easy and delicious these little fluffy potato pillows are going to be!”

SERVES

4 for sharing

PREP TIME

15 mins

COOKING TIME

1 hour 30 min

Ingredients

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Gnocchi

  • 1 kg floury potato (eg. Sebago or Russet)
  • 50g finely grated Parmigiano Reggiano
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 100g 00 flour + more for dusting trays

Tomato Sugo

  • 800g fresh tomatoes
  • 50g butter
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
  • 3 sprigs fresh basil

To Finish

  • Olive oil
  • Pecorino Romano cheese

Method

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Place potatoes on a rack or bed of rock salt and bake for about an hour or until completely tender throughout.

2

Peel the skin off and push through a ricer into a large mixing bowl.

3

Add in the parmigiano and egg yolks and a pinch of salt and mix with a spoon. Add the flour and fold gently, to not overwork.

4

Cut the dough into four pieces. Roll each into a thin log and cut into 2cm lengths. Place on floured trays.

5

Peel the tomatoes using the OXO peeler.

6

Cut out and remove any stems, then cut through the equator and discard the seeds. Cut tomatoes again into chunks.

7

Season well with salt and simmer with a lid on for the first 15 minutes then remove the lid and simmer a further 10–15 minutes until thickened.

8

Use a potato masher or food mill to crush the tomatoes to a sauce consistency.

9

Boil the gnocchi in salted water until they float, then lift from the water using a skimmer.

10

Sear your gnocchi in a non-stick pan over medium heat until golden. Toss everything together and divide onto plates.

11

Finish with olive oil and Pecorino Romano cheese. Enjoy!

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Tips & Tricks

For this recipe, we need to peel the skin from the tomato. Instead of doing the step of boiling and peeling things, you can use the Serrated Peeler from the 3-Piece Assorted Prep Peeler, to simply peel the tomatoes and get straight to making delicious sauce! It can also be used on stone fruit.

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About the Author

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Danielle Alvarez

A Sydney-based chef, recipe developer and cookbook author who is passionate about seasonal, responsibly sourced food and teaching others to cook it at home. She moved to Sydney in 2014 to lead Fred's in Paddington, where her farm-to-table approach earned critical acclaim. She has since written the cookbook Always Add Lemon (2020), co-hosted The Good Food Kitchen with Adam Liaw (2021-2022), and become Culinary Director of the Sydney Opera House's private event spaces (2023). Danielle will show you how a few OXO tools can help you make incredible dishes with ease.

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