Sweet Potato Pumpkin Gnocchi

This Sweet Potato and Pumpkin Gnocchi is an autumn-inspired take on gnocchi. Fluffy, tender, and melt in your mouth with a creamy sage sauce.

“No, absolutely not, you’re insane, don’t try to mess with Italian cooking” were the gist of the words I was met with when I pitched the idea of these sweet potato pumpkin vitamin A bombs to the boyfriend-cheese-man. Nevermind the fact that he is 0.00% Italian, has never been to Italy, and is by no means an inside-the-box type of cook. So I did what I do best and ignored well-meant advice, and these delicious pillows of autumn awesomeness were the result.

Gnocchi is traditionally a careful combination of potatoes and flour, coming together as melt-in-your-mouth puffs of carbs. But aside from the relative lack in nutritional quality of traditional gnocchi, it’s pumpkin season! And the unfailing blend of sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and sage in this Sweet Potato Pumpkin Gnocchi is just the decadent autumn meal you’ve been craving.

Size and shape of the gnocchi are really to your preference. Look close and you’ll see that I did quite a bit of experimenting as I gnocchi-ed along. While I ended up preferring the smaller ones (higher sauce to gnocchi ratio!), do whatever feels right for you!

You can make this with or without the goat cheese cream sauce, it’s a give and take. Without the cream sauce, your naked gnocchi can really strut their stuff and make you look like a master chef. The addition of the cream sauce, while admittedly not winning any glamor contests, brings a tart cheesiness that’s so good it’ll make ya wanna slap your grandma. So perhaps, rather than stirring the cream sauce in immediately like an inpatient three year old (me), serve the sauce on the side or lightly drizzled on top.

Enough about the sauce, let’s do this.

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Sweet Potato Pumpkin Gnocchi

This Sweet Potato and Pumpkin Gnocchi is an autumn-inspired take on gnocchi. Fluffy, tender, and melt in your mouth with a creamy sage sauce.

Course Main Dishes, Pastas, Side Dishes

Diet Vegetarian

Occasion Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving

Time 60 minutes or more

Prep Time 45 minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Servings 4 people

Calories 432 kcal

Author Live Eat Learn

Ingredients

Gnocchi

• 2 cups sweet potato puree 3 potatoes
• 1 cup pumpkin puree 175 g
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp salt
• Pinch of pepper
• 1 ½ - 3 cups all-purpose flour 180-240 g, + more as needed

Sauce

• ¼ cup goat cheese 28 g
• ¼ cup plain Greek yogurt 28 g
• ½ clove garlic minced
• 1 Tbsp butter 15 g
• 1 Tbsp feta cheese 15 g
• Drizzle honey
• Pinch salt and pepper

And also

• 2 Tbsp olive oil 30 mL
• 6 or so sage leaves whole
• ½ clove garlic minced

Instructions

1. If you’re going to make the cream sauce, get this together first. Basically just mix all the “sauce” ingredients and we’ll get around to heating it later.
2. To puree sweet potatoes, prick each with a fork a few times and bake at 350 degrees F (175 C) for 45 minutes until fork tender (either directly on oven rack or on a baking sheet). Remove skin and pass potatoes through a potato ricer (best), push through a wire mesh sieve (good), or mash until smooth (it’ll do). Baking is preferred over boiling in this case. Drier dough → less flour needed → more tender gnocchi.
3. Mix sweet potato puree, pumpkin puree, egg, salt, and pepper in a large bowl.
4. Add 1 ½ cup flour and mix only until flour is hydrated. If dough is still very sticky, add flour a few spoonfuls at a time until dough can be formed into a loose ball (it should still be pretty moist, the goal here is to use as little flour as possible).
5. Nows a good time to get a large pot of water boiling.
6. Transfer dough onto a floured surface and knead a few times. Portion dough into fist-sized balls, and roll each out to about 1 inch (2.5 cm) thick ropes. Cut the ropes into about 1 inch pieces (though the size is really to your preference...I prefer smaller gnocchi).
7. Gently press one side of each gnocchi over the tines of a fork to create the classic ribbed appearance (I cheated and used a knife to form these little serrations). Again, while there is the classic Italian, shell-shaped appearance for these, let your preference guide you. No right or wrong!
8. Gently drop each gnocchi into the boiling water. When the gnocchi floats to the top (a few minutes), it is done! Remove with a slotted spoon and set on a dry paper towel, face-up.
9. Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat, then add whole sage leaves and minced garlic. Cook until the sage is crisp, just a few minutes. Remove from heat and add the gnocchi, tossing to coat.
10. Quickly heat “sauce” ingredients in microwave. Cook for 30 seconds, stir, and repeat until sauce is hot and runny. Pour over gnocchi. Bon apetit!

Notes

If you’re opting out of the cream sauce, use 1 or 2 more tablespoons of olive oil and an extra cloves of garlic in step 9.

Nutrition Facts

Sweet Potato Pumpkin Gnocchi

Amount Per Serving (1 serving)

Calories 432 Calories from Fat 144

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 16g 25%

Sodium 712mg 30%

Total Carbohydrates 62g 21%

Dietary Fiber 7g 28%

Protein 12g 24%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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