Parisian-Style Gnocchi

Gnocchi à la Parisienne

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
French Classics Made Easy

By Richard Grausman

Published 2011

  • About

GNOCCHI are Italian dumplings usually made from potatoes. If you’ve ever had them, you probably remembered them long after the meal was over as they often tend to be heavy and, in the hands of an inexperienced cook, leaden.

Although these Parisian-style dumplings are called gnocchi and have the same shape, the similarity to the Italian dish ends there. French gnocchi are made from cream-puff pastry piped from a pastry bag into simmering water and poached. The resulting dumplings are