Miso Kombu Butter Gnocchi
Cook time: 30-60 minutes | Makes: 4 servings
Ingredients:
3 russet potatoes
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tbsp salt (for boiling gnocchi, and a pinch for the dough)
1 tbsp white miso
½ sheet of kombu
3 cloves of garlic, minced or grated
1 shallot, minced
1 lemon, juiced and zested
1 tbsp vegan butter
¼ cup of water from boiling gnocchi
Togarashi to taste
Directions
Peel potatoes and place in microwave with a water paper towel wrapped around it for 7 minutes
In the meantime, mince or grate your shallots and garlic. Use your hands to crumble up the kombu sheet as much as possible. Zest and juice your lemon. Place the kombu in a small bowl.
Take the potato out of the microwave and mash with a fork.
Add in your flour a ½ cup at a time and a pinch of salt then use the fork to incorporate together until it forms a dough.
Use your hands to form the dough and cut the ball into four equal pieces. With each piece, roll it out until it’s about a quarter size in circumference, then cut the roll into individual pieces an inch in length. Repeat this until all the dough is made into gnocchi.
Use the back of a clean fork to roll each gnocchi piece along the ridges to form striations into the gnocchi.
Boil a large pot of water with the rest of the salt and drop the gnocchi in. Use a ladle and pour a little bit of the warm water to your bowl of kombu to rehydrate it.
Once the gnocchi floats to the top, fish the gnocchi out and place in a separate bowl. Save ¼ cup of the pasta water on the side for later.
On a pan at medium heat, add your butter and let it melt. Then add the shallots, garlic, kombu, and miso to the pan until it’s melted and fragrant.
After that’s combined well on the pan, add a ¼ cup of the reserved gnocchi water to the pan and reduce the pan to lower heat. Stir the sauce mixture in the pan until it has thickened.
Once it has thickened, add your gnocchi in and saute on the pan to let the sauce coat the gnocchi. Lastly, squeeze the lemon juice and then add the lemon zest. Serve with a protein of choice or add any greens you like and enjoy!