To prepare the potato gnocchi, start by cooking your potatoes. I use my large round mold with the octagonal bonMat in the microwave. I peel the potatoes and place in Large Round Mold and then cover with the Octagonal bonMat. I cook in microwave for 12 minutes or until potatoes are soft.
Let potatoes cool and then put them on the Roul’pat to smash. I used a pastry cutter to start and then my hands to finish smashing the potatoes. Add the flour to the potatoes and mash with your hands. Add the egg in the center and continue blending with your hands until smooth. Add little bits of water as needed to pull the dough together.
Knead everything with your hands until you get a soft but compact ball of dough. Remember that if you work too hard, the gnocchi will become hard during cooking, so just mix the necessary dough. Take a part of the dough and spread it with the tips of the fingers to obtain a long loaf of dough. The dough is very sticky so you will need some flour but only a very little bit of flour when you are using the roul’pat. In the meantime, cover the remaining dough with an Octagonal bon Mat to prevent it from drying out.
Then cut the loaves into small pieces and pressing lightly with your thumb, drag them on the gnocchi line to obtain the classic shape. If you do not have the gnocchi line, you can use a fork and drag it on the prongs; also in this case, use flour to avoid sticking. As you prepare the potato gnocchi, arrange them on a bon Mat or Roul’pat, well spaced from each other. If you intend to cook them you can pour them in boiling salted water; as soon as they come to the surface the gnocchi are considered cooked and then ready to be drained and seasoned.
Potato gnocchi can still be kept raw by leaving them on the Roul’pat for a couple of hours at most, in this case cooking will be slightly longer because they will be dried in the air. You can also freeze the gnocchi, in this case put the Roul’pat in the freezer and after about 20 minutes put the potato gnocchi in a bag or be Save container, and keep on doing this until you have frozen them all.
To cook them it will be enough to throw them in boiling salted water without defrosting them first. Remember they are ready once they float.