Ingredients For homemade, type 00 wheat flour, durum-wheat flour, or semola, or a mixture, water, and sometimes salt. Often other kinds of flours, such as corn flour, are used, and the dough can also be enriched with dry bread crumbs. Richer gnocchetti contain eggs, sometimes with the addition of boiled potato, but also with ricotta. For factory made, durum-wheat flour and water.
How Made The flour is sifted onto a wooden board and kneaded long and vigorously with water and sometimes a pinch of salt until a firm, smooth dough forms. The dough is left to rest, then formed into sticks about โ
inch (1 cm) in diameter (the size can vary from region to region). The sticks are cut into irregular lengths of about ยพ inch (2 cm).
