Vera's Recipes

Pasta

Neyoki (Potato Pasta / Gnocchi)

Pasta
5 ingredients
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Ingredients

  • ½ kilo flour
  • ¾ kilo boiled potatoes
  • 1 egg
  • salt
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg

Method

  1. Boil the potatoes to partially done and, when still hot, put through a ricer into the flour. Add salt and mix well. Knead in the egg and nutmeg.
  2. Roll out into several round lengths (like snakes). Cut 1/2-inch thick, then roll over a straight grater to get the desired curl and design.
  3. Boil in salted water until they rise to the top (or sink to the bottom).

Notes

A handwritten Italian potato-gnocchi ("neyoki") recipe using metric measures.

Original card

The recipe above was transcribed from this scan of Vera’s original card.