Pasta - Semolino Gnocchi

Ingredients

  • 250 g semolino
  • 1 litre of milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 20 g butter
  • 2 tbsp parmesan
  • pinch of salt

Preparation

Step 1

Heat milk with the salt . When milk boils, add the semolino, stirring constantly.Cook for 5mins and then remove from the heat. Add the butter and grated parmesan and mix well.

Place the semolino dough between 2 sheets of grease proof baking paper & roll out with a rolling pin until it is about .5 cm thick. Remove the top layer of paper and with a pasta stamp or even the rim of a champagne flute or normal glass you can make the round shapes.
Take a pyrex dish, grease with a bit of butter, then place the gnocchi, oerlapping slightly to cover the bottom of the dish.

At this point you have a couple of choices
1 – Simple. Top with butter & grated parmesan and bake in a hot oven for 10-12 mins.
2 - Top with butter, grated parmesan and beschiamella and bake in hot oven for 10-12mins.
3 – Butter, grated truffle and a little parmesan & bake as above. If you like truffles,you can also add when you remove from heat & add the butter & parmesan for a stronger flavour.
4 – You can also top with a tomato sauce ( see recipe) , meat sauce ( see recipe) , saucemade with porcini trifolati ( see recipe) spinach and beschiamella... the options are endless!!!