Gnocchi with Leek Sauce

📝 Ingredients

• 500 g potato (choose a dry one one suitable for mashed potato)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 110 g all purpose flour
• pinch pepper
• 50 g unsalted butter
• 1 leek
• 1 garlic clove
• 20 ml white wine
• 2 sprigs fresh oregano (or a pinch of dry)
• 20 g peas
• 20 g toasted and chopped almonds
• to taste salt and pepper
• a gusto queso parmesano rallado y balsámico reducido

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1--- For the gnocchi ---
2. 2Cook the potatoes in the oven at 200C for an hour - 2 hours, previously pinching them with a fork to help them release vapour. You can take them out once you pinch them with a fork or knife and it goes in easily.
3. 3Cut them in half and scoop out the inside of the potato with a spoon. Pass it through a sieve (once) or potato press (twice) while still hot. If they become cold before you can get to it, reheat them in the microwave. It will make it 100 times easier to press.
4. 4Mix in the egg, then add the flour and salt. The amount of flour in the recipe is the minimum amount that you need for the amount of potato, but add more if it's still sticking to your fingers.
5. 5Roll it out into a snake and then cut the size of the gnocchi that you want.
6. 6To roll them into gnocchi shape, roll them into a ball, then into a bit of flour, and then roll it on top of a gnocchi board or a fork.
7. 7At this point you can freeze them. If you want to do that, lay them on top of a container or a plate with cling film dusted with flour. Once they are frozen solid you can place them in a container altogether as they won't stick to each other now. This is the only way to store them because if not they become sticky.
8. 8Cook them in boiling water and remove them as they come floating. Put them on top of the sauce once done to reheat.
9. 9--- For the leek sauce ---
10. 10Melt the butter and add the leeks (remove the green part, cut in half, wash throughly and slice) and the leaves from the fresh oregano. Cook until soft.
11. 11Finely grate or mince the garlic and cook until the smell turns mild.
12. 12Add the white wine and let it evaporate completely. Also add the peas for them to cook (only takes a couple mins).
13. 13Add salt and pepper to taste.