Gnocchi love truffles, and this black truffle gnocchi recipe with wild mushrooms is a perfect way to taste pure truffle flavor. It's also a flexible recipe, and you can make it with many different types of truffles, or truffle products. Read on and I'll explain how to make it.
Ingredients
You'll need fresh potato gnocchi or gnocchi from a store, white wine, good parmesan or pecorino cheese. You'll also need truffle butter or truffle oil, a few handfuls of wild mushrooms or cultivated mushrooms, and a little garlic. If you like them, you can add an anchovy filet to the sauce as well-but that's optional.
How to Make Truffle Gnocchi
First you make some fresh potato gnocchi, which will always be better than store bought. To make the sauce, you cook a handful of fresh mushrooms, then add a little minced garlic. You can also add shallots, diced very small or finely chopped (1 Tbsp). Wine is added to the pan, then heavy cream and gnocchi cooked in a large pot of water.
Finally, truffle butter or truffle oil at the last minute. The pictures below illustrate the process. It's very easy to make. If you haven't made your own truffle oil, refer to How to Make Truffle Oil.
The most important part to know is that the truffle is added at the very end of cooking, in the video I show you how to add homemade truffle oil, or truffle butter. You finish it with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese, garnish it with fresh sliced truffles if you have some, and that's it!
FAQ
Black truffles have a softer, more woodsy aroma with notes of woodsmoke. White truffles have a very pungent aroma with notes of garlic, oil infused with them is much more powerful than black truffle oil. That said, any truffle oil you buy is likely flavored with synthetic truffle flavoring and will never be as good as homemade truffle oil.
Truffle gnocchi are simply potato or other gnocchi (ricotta) served with truffles. The truffle flavor can come from truffle butter, a tube of truffle paste, truffle oil, or fresh truffles. Black winter or summer truffles will both work.
You have options here. The version pictured is a creamy sauce of mushrooms, garlic and white wine infused with black truffle butter or truffle oil. Another version is simply tossing cooked gnocchi with your favorite truffle oil to taste. Canned truffles in oil can also be used as you would truffle oil.
Prices fluctuate, but 1 oz of fresh black truffle is usually around $50.
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Creamy Black Truffle Gnocchi with Mushrooms
Equipment
- Pasta pot
- 10 inch saute pan
- Gnocchi board (optional)
Ingredients
- 4 oz gnocchi
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic
- 2 oz mushrooms your favorite type
- 1.5 oz black truffle butter *or a substitution, see notes
- Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper
- ¼ cup dry white wine
- 2 tablespoons Parmigiano reggiano cheese to taste
- 1 tbsp light olive oil or cooking oil
- kosher salt and pepper fresh ground pepper only
Instructions
- Warm the oil a ten inch saute pan or skillet over medium heat. Add the mushrooms and cook until starting to brown, then add the garlic and a drizzle of oil if the pan seems dry. Cook for a minute, stirring occasionally.
- Add the white wine and reduce by half, then the cream.
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the gnocchi for 2-3 minutes, or until they float. Remove the gnocchi with a slotted spoon to the pan with the sauce, toss, reduce the heat and cook until just thickened.
- Turn the heat off, stir in the truffle butter and/or truffle oil, along with a tablespoon or two of parmesan cheese, taste the seasoning and adjust as needed, then serve. Garnish with fresh sliced truffle or shaved black truffle if you have some, along with grated parmigiano reggiano cheese. Chopped chives make a nice garnish too.
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