Two and a half years after the birth of The Daring Bakers, Lis and Ivonne introduce The Daring Cooks with the first ever challenge – Zuni Café Ricotta Gnocchi!
Zuni Ricotta Gnocchi
(adapted from the The Zuni Café Cookbook)
First of all, you will have to make your own fresh ricotta. Here is an excellent how-to video by Gourmet Magazine‘s editor Gina Marie Miraglia Eriquez. The recipe uses 2 quarts (1,9 l) milk and I managed to make 400 g (out of 450 g needed) ricotta using 3.2% fat milk. Follow the recipe from the video, but let ricotta strain for a day or at least overnight. This is the most important part of the process and if you make ricotta right, your gnocchi will turn out right.
The next day, mash the ricotta as best as you can, add 15 g grated Parmesan cheese, 1 Tbsp melted butter, 1/4 tsp salt, 2 small cold eggs, lightly beaten and beat all the ingredients together very well. Put in the fridge for a half an hour, then, shape the gnocchi and roll each one into flour. Boil water in a large pot. Salt it generously. Cook gnocchi in it for 3 minutes from the moment they come up the surface.
Chicken Meatballs
(adapted from Sale & Pepe Serbia, April 2009 issue)
Soak 50 g bread in some water, squeeze out the water, crumble it, and add it to 300 g ground chicken breasts along with 1 egg, 2 Tbsp Parmesan cheese, 2 Tbsp chopped curled parsley leaves, salt and ground black pepper. Form meatballs of the similar size of your gnocchi. Fry them on a non-stick pan on no or a very little oil.
When you’re done with everything, melt 100 g butter with a few leaves of finely chopped fresh sage and pour over the gnocci. Serve with meatballs, sprinkled with more Parmesan.
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ne znam što mi bolje zvuči…njoki ili pileće okruglice ovi njoki su stvarno posebni…krasna fotka ;)
That looks delicious! I didn’t think I wanted to join Daring Cooks but I’m not so sure now…
Oh darn!! I didn’t know they started Daring Cooks! I would have joined! I would have loved to make this!! You did an awesome job!!! At least I can see beautiful pictures of your creations! :D
Oh, yummy! These gnocchi look delicious!Cheers,Rosa
Your gnocchi look amazing Marija! Making them round is actually quite a good idea as I struggled to make them into a presentable shape (an failed!) It looks delicious!
what a nice dish
njoki su odlični, na fotki izgledaju prefino, a ovaj video koji pokazuje kako napraviti ricottu će mi sigurno koristiti! :))
Clever idea meatballs and gnocchi what a great meal. Just love the pix. Great work on your 1st challenge hope you have many more happy challenges. Cheers from Audax in Australia
Beautiful photo! Yours looks so hearty and rustic. Gorgeous
fotka je predivna a njoki fantasticno izgledaju!
I love how you got such a perfect sear on your gnocchi, and the photos are great! Nicely done!
Your gnocchi look amazing!! I love what you did with the flavours =D.
Great job! I wish I had made my own Ricotta….next time!
What a great idea to do meatballs with the Gnocchi… my mouth is watering.
mmmm really nice, congrats
beautiful, they look so good
Wow! Your blog is awesome! I’m totally lost seeing all these decadents dishes! Love it!
I have the Zuni cookbook, haven’t looked at it in a while, got to take it out! Thanks for the reminder.Lovely photos!LL
Gorgeous photo. Absolutely gorgeous. Mine, not so much. Homemade ricotta is key and I used store bought. Not a good idea.
Great picture of your gnocchi!
I am a baker by heart, but with dishes like this I could be converted. To be honest, I am a fan of gnocchi. This looks great! Beautiful. I’m hungry now!
Lovely photo!
Beautiful! I love the little chicken meatballs that you make with it.
WOW! What a great meal!!! :-)
They look so so so good!
What a challenge! You did great!
Just fabulous Marija…so glad you joined too & make this look like an absolute cake-walk (which it wasn't for me, but then it was the draining of the ricotta!) Love the butter & sage & meatballs…YUM!!
Those gnocchi look superdelicious, Marija :-)!! XOXO
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