Triple Cheese Gnocchi in a Mushroom Mornay Sauce
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 1 lb potato
- 1⁄4 lb cheddar cheese, freshly grated
- 1⁄2 lb ricotta cheese
- 1 cup romano cheese, freshly grated
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
-
Mornay Sauce
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 cups button mushrooms, sliced
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 1⁄4 cups chicken broth
- 1 1⁄4 cups half-and-half cream
- 1⁄2 cup parmesan cheese, freshly grated
directions
- For the gnocchi, pare and steam the potatoes until they are fork tender. Puree.
- Blend the cheeses together.
- Blend the cheeses, potatoes and eggs together. Add the flour very slowly, mixing in after each addition. You want a very soft dough, not too stiff with flour or the gnocchi will be heavy and tough.
- Knead, creating a soft dough. Mold the dough into teaspoon size pieces. Place on a floured, inverted fork and press slightly. The tines will make ridges to help the sauce cling to the gnocchi.
- Start a large kettle of salted water to a rolling boil. While waiting on the water to boil, begin the mornay sauce.
- Heat the butter in a sauce pan and add the mushrooms, saute until most of the liquid has evaporated. Add the flour and cook 2 minutes over low heat, adding drops of chicken broth as needed to keep from being too dry while cooking. Stir in the chicken broth and half & half. Reduce heat and simmer until thickened. Stir in the cheese and simmer for 2 more minutes. Keep sauce warm over very, very low heat.
- Drop the gnocchi into the salted boiling water. Cook for 3 minutes after the dumplings begin floating. Drain and place in large serving bowl. Top and toss with Mornay Sauce.
Questions & Replies
Got a question?
Share it with the community!
Reviews
Have any thoughts about this recipe?
Share it with the community!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
<p>Live and work in the heart of the US - Ohio! I work as a Risk Management Consultant, and I do have to work to pay the bills (at least for now), but my passion is cooking.....and eating with as much variety as I can find. I am incredibly lucky in that my BF will eat anything I cook and will give me his honest opinion. What more can you ask from a guy? Well.....let's not go there...at least not online LOL. <br />We share our home with four rescued cats and two Beagle Dachshund mixes (beaners!). We'd rescue more if I could afford the vet bills. <br />Other passions include my vegetable and herb garden, and BF provides the needed grunt work (laughs).</p>