Sweet Potato Gnocchi Recipe - Happy Foods Tube (2024)

This is an easy sweet potato gnocchi recipe. It’s perfect for a quick weeknight dinner! Soft gnocchi pillows served with green pesto and Parmesan are hard to resist!

3 reasons to try sweet potato gnocchi:

1. Easy recipe – Anyone can make this delicious dinner!
2. Quick preparation – In 15 minutes you are ready to serve!
3. A few ingredients – you only need 4 simple ingredients to make these sweet potato gnocchi. And if you don’t have time to make a sauce, just grab green pesto and Parmesan from your local store and you are good to go!

Also no special tools are needed to make sweet potato gnocchi – of course you could go the extra step and buy a so called gnocchi stripper to achieve the typical texture but you absolutely don’t have to! I don’t have one and never felt like I needed it.

Other easy sweet potato recipes:

• Sweet Potato Flatbread
• Sweet Potato Pancakes
• Sweet Potato Salad

How to make sweet potato gnocchi

The dough comes together in a few minutes. You don’t need any bowl or special tools. Just a clean worktop where you will mix all the ingredients together. I start with flour and pureed sweet potato. They are combined altogether with a generous pinch of salt.

Fork works well for bringing the mashed potato and flour together. After you mixed these 3 ingredients a little bit, make a well in the middle and add beaten egg. Again use the fork to combine everything together and later use your hands. The dough should come together in about 2 minutes.

Making sweet potato gnocchi – Cut the dough into 7-8 pieces. Roll each piece into a sausage. The thickness is entirely up to you but the thicker the sausage the thicker your gnocchi will turn out. Everyone’s first batch is usually a trial.

Just note that gnocchi will grow while cooking. I usually roll the sausage little thinner than a cigar. Then each “cigar” is cut again into small pieces and you are done! The sweet potato gnocchi are ready for cooking.

Cooking gnocchi – Throw them into salty boiling water and cover with a lid. The reason I cover them with a lid is that the minute you throw them in, the water stops boiling and it takes longer to cook them.

However, you need to be standing near the pot as it only takes about a minute, maybe 2 for them to come up to the surface. Also at the same time (or seconds earlier) the water might wanna boil over. If that is the case, just remove the lid.

Now all you have to do is drain the water and serve. You can also toast them in a skillet/frying pan, if you like them crispy on the outside. Use olive oil or real butter for this.

What do you eat gnocchi with?

In most recipes you will come across garlic sage butter as a sauce for gnocchi. First there is no rule that you have to make this with your gnocchi. There are so many great sauces you can choose from! So what do you eat gnocchi with you ask?

Well, let me give you a few examples:

The easiest and quickest option is mixing your cooked sweet potato gnocchi with a couple of tablespoons of pesto. My favorite is Parsley Pesto and that is what I have on the pictures as well. However, any other pesto whether it is homemade or shop-bought will do. Just use your favorite one.

If I don’t have pesto on hand, I make a quick tomato-based sauce. Top it with buffalo mozzarella or burrata and you’ll be in for a treat! A creamy mushroom sauce or cheese and bacon sauce would also taste delicious.

Tips for making sweet potato gnocchi

• Make sure that the mashed sweet potato is cold. If it is not, wait until it gets cold or place it in the fridge to speed up the cooling process.
• Don’t use a stand mixer or any other mixer to knead the dough. It only takes about 2 minutes to put it together. An over-worked dough will result in hard gnocchi and no one likes hard gnocchi, right? In this case less is more.
• The size of sweet potato gnocchi can vary. I prefer them small rather than large. Also note, that they will puff up in the water.

Gnocchi lovers might also like Spinach Spaetzle.

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