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Sweet Potato Gnocchi

Delicious homemade sweet potato gnocchi are great for people with food sensitivities since they are nightshade free, gluten free, grain free and paleo.
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup mashed Jewel sweet potato orange,brown skin, orange flesh (approximately 1 small one)
  • 1/2 cup mashed Japanese sweet potato purple skin, white flesh (approximately 1 small one)
  • 1/2 cup almond flour
  • 3/4 cup tapioca flour
  • 3 Tbsp coconut flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 tsp salt (for boiling)

Instructions
 

  • Cut sweet potatoes into large cubes and steam for about 15 minutes until soft.
  • Let them cool off for a couple of minutes. Once they are cool enough to be touched, peel them.
  • Mash both sweet potato varieties separately before measuring. Once you took the accurate amount of both, combine them either with a fork or potato masher.
  • In a separate bowl mix the flours and the salt together.
  • Add egg to the sweet potato mash and mix until smooth.
  • Add flour mix to the mashed sweet potatoes and mix well using your hands. Now form the dough into a ball. The dough is going to be a little bit sticky. If it is too sticky to form a ball add a little bit additional tapioca and almond flour in the same ratio.
  • Put a little bit of tapioca flour onto a large cutting board and distribute it evenly. Cut the dough into 4 parts. Roll each to make a thin rope. The thickness depends on how big you want your gnocchi to be. I recommend about half an inch. Now cut each rope into about 1-inch pieces. You can either freeze them now or cook them.
  • To cook heat a medium/large pot with water and salt until boiling. Add the gnocchi and cook for 1-3 minutes. The gnocchi will float on the surface once they are done. Drain and serve.
  • Enjoy the gnocchi with your favorite sauce or fry them once cooked.
  • Enjoy!

Notes

Tips: I used two different kinds of sweet potatoes: Jewel and Japanese Sweet potatoes. Both are sometimes mislabeled as yams. Jewel sweet potatoes are the most common sweet potatoes and are easily identified by their orange skin and flesh. Japanese sweet potatoes have purple skin and butter-colored flesh. Be careful if you want to change the ratio of jewel versus Japanese sweet potato. Cooked Japanese sweet potatoes are drier than "regular" sweet potatoes and therefore require less flour for the gnocchi to stick together.