Home Cooking: Gnocchi and Prawn

Home Cooking is a monthly series where we share creative and tasty recipes for you to try at home!

Gnocchi. Say it, it rolls off your tongue. Gnocchi! Also known as Italian dumplings, we’ll be making these doughy cubes using mashed potato, flour and wheat. Yes, this dish is a staple in everyone’s favorite boot-shaped country, but this recipe has an aquatic twist with shrimp and (a preferably huge) prawn. You’ll be proud spaghetti isn’t the only Italian dish up your sleeve. 

Ingredients:

Gnocchi

• 200g mashed potatoes

• 100g flour

• 15g salt

Sauce

• 20ml olive oil

• 5g garlic

• 5g parsley

• 5g rosemary

• 60g zucchini

• 20ml white wine

• 20ml shrimp soup

• 4 shrimp

For the oven

• 1 prawn

• 10ml shrimp soup

Preparation:

The gnocchi

1. Mix the mashed potato, flour and salt.

2. Shape the uncooked gnocchi into bars then cut into cubes.

3. Boil the gnocchi until it floats then remove it from the water.

The sauce 

1. Fry chopped garlic in olive oil in a pan until fragrant.

2. Add shrimp and chopped zucchini to the pan.

3. After the smell changes, add white wine.

4. Cook until the wine is absorbed then add shrimp soup.

5. Cook in the pan with shrimp soup for three minutes.

The prawn

1. Place the prawn in 10 milliliters of shrimp soup.

2. Cook the prawn and soup in the oven for three minutes, or until the color changes.

3. Finally, mix the gnocchi with the sauce and place the prawn on top.

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