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First time I tried making gnocchi (or any pasta type). I followed the orders but my gnocchi are pretty sticky (maybe there's a better word?).

It feels like a pasta that was overcooked on a low flame and so it took a lot of time to be ready.

What can be the cause? Too much or too little flour?

The ingredients are:

  • 3 medium-big beets
  • 1 medium-big (white) potato
  • I think that almost 1kg of whole wheat flour
  • Salt

The beets and potato were wrapped in aluminium foil in the oven until soft, and then blended - then started adding flour until it reached a form that I can roll it to cut pieces.

I still have a lot of it, anything I can do to fix the dough?

And how long can I keep it (fridge/freezer?) in case I don't have enough of the ingredients to fix it at the moment?

Photos of the gnocchi and dough:

  • How the dough behave - (link to GIF, can't compress it more to upload it here)

  • The inside:

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  • The rest of the dough

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Thanks!

arieljannai
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The beets probably contributed more liquid than planned. I would try blending them, then straining them through a chinois (use the back of a spoon to push out even more liquid after you allow gravity and a pinch of salt to do its work), and then blending the rest of the ingredients together using your hand-operated food processor.

Adding more flour at this point is just going to expand an already engorged gluten network resulting in really chewy gnocchi, so I wouldn't do that. I don't think there's a great way of saving the batch you had.

So, dis-engorge the beetroot prior to starting by cutting it into slices, lightly salting it, processing it, then straining it, and you should find your instincts to add more flour have diminished the next time you try it.

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Unfortunately, unless your recipe provides some reference weights/sizing for what "medium-big" means, it is difficult to say whether or not you got the ingredient proportions correct. I think it is possible that your idea of "medium-big" is larger than the recipe writer's idea, so your dough is too wet.

You should be able to freeze your dough for several months without issues. The longer it is frozen, the more moisture is likely to be extracted, which actually may help your situation. It's worth trying, as it doesn't require more effort at this point.

I don't think more flour is going to be a good option for the current dough. You might want to try this again with slightly smaller beets and potatoes.

Jennifer S
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