Miso & Blue Cheese Rice Flour Gnocchi
Using an eclectic combination of Japanese miso and cheese, this recipe symbolizes the harmonization between Japanese culture and the outside world. It introduces two characteristics that the food made with rice flour is known for – moist and flaky textures – in three different ways!
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Dango rice dumplings and gnocchi can be made with rice flour or sweet rice flour combined with water. The texture changes by adjusting the amount of mochiko, sweet rice flour.
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All rice flour is naturally gluten-free. Make this dish completely gluten-free by using gluten-free substitutes for other ingredients as needed.
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Miso fermented bean paste and mochiko sweet rice flour can be purchased online or at Asian grocery stores.
4 servings
Ingredients
For the miso gnocchi
| ⅔ cup (100g) | mochiko sweet rice flour |
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| ¼-⅓ cup (60-70ml) | milk |
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| 1½ tablespoons (30g) | red miso or other types of miso |
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For the blue cheese gnocchi
| ⅔ cup (100g) | mochiko sweet rice flour |
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| ¼-⅓ cup (60-70ml) | milk |
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| ¼ cup (30g) | blue cheese |
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| 1 cup (200ml) | olive oil for toasting gnocchi |
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| 2¾ cups (600ml) | vegetable oil for deep frying |
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| 2 tablespoons (42g) | honey |
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| 1 tablespoon (20g) | dried currants or other dried fruit |
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Directions
For the miso and blue cheese gnocchi, mix ingredients for each gnocchi in two separate bowls. Knead until the doughs achieve the firmness of an earlobe. Form small bite size balls. Cover and set aside.
Boil water in a large pot.
Boil gnocchi. When cooked, transfer them to ice cold water to cool down, then drain.
Coat aluminum foil with oil, and place miso gnocchi. Brush the gnocchi with olive oil, and toast them until golden brown.
Take a half of blue cheese gnocchi and deep fry them over medium-high heat.
Plate the other half of the blue cheese gnocchi in a small bowl. Top with currants and honey. Serve with the other gnocchi.
- This recipe uses US customary units. Measurement equivalents include: 1 teaspoon = 5ml, 1 tablespoon = 15ml, and 1 US cup = 237ml or 8fl oz. (1 metric cup = 250ml or 8.5fl oz.)
- The cooking time using microwave oven in this recipe is based on 1,000W in the US.
- The temperature and baking time may be different depending on the oven used. Please adjust accordingly.
- All rice flour is naturally gluten-free. Make this dish completely gluten-free by using gluten-free substitutes for other ingredients as needed.