Baba matilde's breadcrumb gnocchi (or shlishkes)
Bread
Italian cuisine
My maternal grandmother was Eastern European origins, and emigrated to Argentina as a child, in the early 1900s. Her father, a former army cook in the Prussian Army, opened a restaurant in Buenos Aires. My grandmother, or Baba, as we called her, grew up in the restaurant kitchen and was exposed to the foods of many cultures. Mostly eastern European, but also Italian and Spanish, which were the cultures that build Argentina's culinary traditions. We always knew this recipe as "breadcrumb gnocchi", but when I decided to enter this contest, I became curious about its origins, and googled it. I found a Hungarian dish, named Shlishkes, which is very similar to what she made. I now wonder if she was actually making Shlishkes, and referring to them as gnocchi because she was growing among Italians. The recipe asks for very little flour, and the mix will not look like regular gnocchi batter. However, this makes extremely light gnocchi. Enjoy!
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