A recipe for Sharon.
Who is a vegetarian.
Pan-fried (I know, I know. As opposed to what? Tupperware box fried?) gnocchi with goats' cheese and a working girl sauce.
This recipe is based on a dish I have eaten many times at a little restaurant in London called Koha.
I am not going to suggest you make your own gnocchi. I tried it once. The dough morphed into something with the adhesive qualities of freshly laid tarmacadam. I had gobbets of the stuff all over my hands and couldn't get them off. I resorted to flinging my arms about wildly, in the manner of someone alarmed by a wasp. There are still little bits of uncooked gnocchi dough on my kitchen ceiling.
You will need
Half a packet of gnocchi made by someone else
A cup of sticky tomato sauce (see my recipe for meatballs in tomato sauce for the method)
A scant dessertspoon of roughly chopped capers (or some toasted pinenuts if even the thought of a caper makes you go all funny)
A small handful of shrivelled black olives (absolutely not the ones packed in brine) roughly chopped
A handful of shredded basil
A handful of cubed soft goats cheese.
Olive oil
Method
Heat the sauce with the capers and olives.
Cook the gnocchi in briskly boiling salted water until they start to bob to the surface then drain.
Heat up enough olive oil in your non-stick frying pan to barely cover the bottom of the pan. Throw in the gnocchi and toss them around so they coated in the oil. Spread them out into a single layer. Fry until the underbelly of each one has turned golden, flip over (the gnocchi, not you) and fry the other side. This little exercise will take 5-8 minutes. Do not fiddle. If you start poking around the gnocchi will turn all anti-establishment on you and stick to the non-stick pan.
Remove to a warm bowl. Top with the sauce, goats' cheese, basil and pinenuts ( if you have gone that route) and you are done.
I have called the sauce 'working girl sauce' as it is loosely modelled on spaghetti alla puttanesca (literally 'whore's style spaghetti' in Italian).
More vegetarian recipes will follow!
This is a blog for solitary diners of every sort. For gluttons and hedonists. For people who can cook, who think they can’t cook and for those who genuinely can’t. For those who get home from work early and those who get home late. Everyone. That said, it is not for the people who say “I forgot to eat”. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? These people, in my humble opinion, should be tied naked to the front of a gritter lorry and pelted with supermarket egg mayonnaise.
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yay.. sounds yummmy... i will try it one day.... p.s. the imagery of you flinging your arms around was very nostalgic.. i think you used to do that at Q!
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