Making homemade gnocchi is incredibly easy and only requires 4 pantry friendly ingredients. This recipe makes 1 3/4 lbs uncooked and about 2 lbs cooked gnocchi, which feeds around 4-8 people depending on appetites and how it's prepared.
For the traditional gnocchi shape with the grooves on one side, place a fork sitting face down on the counter and take the ball and place it at the top of the backside of the tines of the fork. With your thumb on the piece of dough, slide the gnocchi down the tines of the fork until you reach the counter. The gnocchi will turn under your thumb until it has grooves going around about 3/4 of the dough and a small inset divot where your thumb was.
05Repeat with remaining pieces of dough. If the dough becomes sticky at any point, toss shaped gnocchi with flour so they don't stick together and knead a bit of extra flour into the remaining unshaped dough.
06To cook the gnocchi, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add half the gnocchi to the pot and let it cook for about 4-5 minutes, or until the gnocchi float to the top and have cooked an additional minute at the top. Remove the cooked gnocchi with a slotted spoon and then cook the second batch of gnocchi.
07Use the cooked gnocchi in your favorite recipe, or store in the fridge for up to a week (you can freeze for longer).