Receta Gnocchi With Chicken And Chorizo Recipe
For challenge 8 of Freshly Blogged we were tasked with creating a recipe using art or an artist as our inspiration. Unlike the contestants I did not look to a world famous artist for my inspiration, instead I turned to my late gran who inspires me every day. She was a commercial artist and taught me all about water colours, oils and charcoals. She not only taught me how to draw, the taught me to appreciate books and how to get absolute pleasure from reading. Every time I slept over I was allowed to take a book with me to read in bed before lights out. I would have to show her my clean hands and then she would allow me to unlock the book case and take out a hardcover book with short stories in them. I am not sure if I got to read all the volumes before she died and sadly I do not have access to the books to check. My grandmother was an inspiration in other ways as well. She raised 4 boys as a single mother and every Friday night there would be roast chicken and all the trimmings served for Shabbat dinner. I always remember an abundance of food on her side table. This tradition of roast chicken carried on long after she died, in my parents home, with my father allowing me to carve the chicken when I was old enough. I always stuff my chicken with lemon, herbs and garlic and so when I got the challenge ingredients I decided to make something different than what I would normally do. I chose to make gnocchi with chicken and chorizo. I was chopped from the competition before I submitted this recipe but I was not worried as I knew it would be good for my blog regardless. The same day I was chopped I checked to see what my first challenge would be with the Daring Cooks and saw it was for gnocchi. We were tasked to make potato gnocchi and top it with any sauce you choose. How lucky for me!
Gnocchi With Chicken And Chorizo Recipe
Ingredients:
- For the gnocchi
- 1kg potatoes
- 200g flour, sieved, plus extra for dusting
- 2 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to season
- 15mls vegetable oil
- For the chicken and chorizo
- 1 free range chicken
- Zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 10 whole garlic cloves, lightly crushed with the flat of a knife
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to season
- 125mls Sherry
- 15mls olive oil
- 1 red onion, cut in half and thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled and thinly sliced
- 2 smoked chorizo sausages, thinly sliced
- 250g baby tomatoes, cut in half
- 30g rocket, thinly sliced
- For the Sherry Sauce
- 15mls vegetable oil
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to season
- 30mls concentrated chicken stock liquid
- 250mls water
- 120mls Sherry
Method:
For the gnocchi
Preheat the oven to 200°Celsius
Place the potatoes onto a baking tray and bake for 1 and a half hours
Place a large pot of water onto boil
Cut the potatoes in half and scoop out the flesh
Push the flesh through a potato ricer into a bowl
Whisk the eggs and egg yolks until frothy
Add one tablespoon of the potatoes to the eggs and mix in well
Fold the egg mixture into the potatoes
Fold the flour into the potatoes
Season to taste
Turn out onto a well-floured surface and knead into a ball
Divide the ball into 8
Roll out each piece into a sausage shape about 1.5cm in diameter
Cut into 2.5cm pieces
Roll each piece across a knife or gnocchi board and place onto a well-floured tray
For the chicken and chorizo
Break down the chicken into 2 thighs, 2 breasts, 2 drumsticks setting aside the carcass and the wings
Skin the thighs, beasts and drumsticks and bone the thighs and drumsticks
Cut the flesh into large chunks and place into a large Ziploc bag
Add the lemon zest and juice and the garlic
Season generously
Add the Sedgwick’s Old Brown and seal the bag
Leave to marinade in the fridge for an hour
Remove the chicken from the marinade, discarding the marinade and the garlic
Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan
Sauté the onion and garlic until soft
Season and add the chicken
Seal the chicken and add the chorizo
Season and add the tomatoes
Once the tomatoes are cooked down adjust the seasoning
For the Sherry Sauce
Heat the oil in a large sauté pan
Brown the carcass, wings and all the trimmings from your chicken
Season to taste
Add the stock and the water and bring to the boil
Cover, reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes
Remove the chicken and add the Sedgwick’s Old Brown
Adjust the seasoning and increase the heat
Reduce until thickened
To serve
As soon as the gnocchi are all done, and your water is boiling, generously salt the water
Cook the gnocchi for 3 minutes
Remove and place into the pan with your Sedgwick’s Old Brown sauce
Toss to coat the gnocchi in the sauce
Place the gnocchi into a bowl and top with the chicken and chorizo
Add a generous amount of rocket to each bowl
Cooks Notes:
Once blanched, you can toss the gnocchi in vegetable oil to prevent sticking if you don’t want to use them straight away. They can now be frozen.
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Blog-checking lines: Todd, who is The Daring Kitchen’s AWESOME webmaster and an amazing cook, is our September Daring Cooks’ host! Todd challenged us to make light and fluffy potato Gnocchi and encouraged us to flavor the lil pillows of goodness and go wild with a sauce to top them with!
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I am a foodie who is passionate about regional and seasonal produce. I live in a cottage by the sea with my husband, our three dogs, a tortoise and a fish. We are busy building a house which is an adventure all in itself. Each year we visit a new place to experience the food of the area.