Ricotta Festival 2025: LaManna Pan Baked Gnocchi All'Amatriciana

Ricotta Festival 2025: LaManna Pan Baked Gnocchi All'Amatriciana

Serves 4

INGREDIENTS:

800g LaManna Hand Rolled Potato Gnocchi (2 Packets)

250gm Puopolo Guanciale, Diced

500ml Fragassi Toscana sauce or any Fragassi sauce

1 Whole Brown Onion

3 Garlic Cloves, Sliced

60g Cavalo Nero, Stripped & Cut in Half

60g Pecorino Romano

Good Pinch Dried Chilli

200g Scamorza Bianca, Half Diced, Half Sliced

12 Basil Leaves

Olive oil - to taste

Sea salt - to taste

METHOD:

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees.

2. Over medium heat add some olive oil and to pan fry gnocchi until golden brown on both sides. 2-3 mins each side. Season slightly & set aside.

3. Over medium heat starting from a cold pan add diced guanciale and slowly render that fat to make it nice & crispy. Strain guanciale from fat

4. Add fat back in pan and saute onion and garlic.

5. Add toscana sauce, cavalo nero, guanciale, gnocchi, dried chilli, half the basil, half pecorino & the diced scamorza. Give a quick toss to mix in the pan. Once mixed top with remaining scamorza and pecorino and bake for 10-12 mins.

6. When cheese has a nice golden colour and a little crispy, finish with remaining basil.