Strangolapreti Trentini con Burro e Salvia
Trentino
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Origin
Trentino, Trentino-Alto Adige
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Description
Trentino's canonical spinach-bread gnocchi — stale bread soaked in milk, squeezed dry, mixed with blanched and squeezed spinach, egg, flour, and Grana Trentino, formed into rough cylinders and poached in salted water, then dressed only with browned butter and fresh sage. The name translates to 'priest stranglers' — the legend being that a greedy priest ate them so fast he choked. They are the most forgiving of all gnocchi — the bread provides structure that potato gnocchi lacks, making them difficult to over-work into toughness.
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The Thread
—Direct cultural relatives from the same German-speaking alpine tradition — Austrian uses a more enriched dough with more butter, Trentino uses a simpler bread-and-spinach formula, both using beurre noisette as the only sauce Austrian
—Both are bread-based gnocchi that use a starch other than potato as the structure — Paris gnocchi uses choux pastry, Trentino uses soaked stale bread, both producing a lighter, more elastic dumpling than the classic potato French
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Flavour Context
Green, earthy spinach with the dairy-richness of soaked bread and Grana, bathed in hazelnut-scented browned butter — alpine winter cooking at its most precise
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