Fried Gnocchi with Mozzarella and Cherry Tomatoes

  • 2

Ingredients

  • 1 packet vacuum-packed gnocchi
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • butter
  • a few handfuls cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1 ball mozzarella cheese
  • ul basil leaves
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation

Step 1

Simply boil a large pan of salted water, tip in the gnocchi and cook according to the packet instructions (a few minutes).

Fish out when cooked and drain. Meanwhile, heat the olive oil and butter in a large, non-stick frying pan.

After about 5 minutes, when the gnocchi have started to catch and brown, add in ripped-up pieces of the mozzarella.

The temptation is to keep stirring, but you want the gnocchi to stick so that their bottoms go all crispy, so resist the temptation to keep prodding them. And if you mix it up too much, the cheese will melt into a lump of goo. (If that does happen, just use some kitchen scissors to cut it up.)

Yield:

Serves 2 greedy people

Every night for more than 12 years, Jorge Muñoz Zapata and his family has taken it upon themselves to help feed the hungry of Queens, New York.

“Everybody should know how to make a really good chocolate cake. And most people I know are terrified of making a cake, period.”

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