Gnocchi in Garlic Butter sauce

Last time we had Gnocchi in tomato sauce, this time we will try it in our all time favorite sinful garlic butter sauce. For those of you who haven't read my early post on Gnocchi making just refer to this link :)

http://www.nimamok.com/2007/08/gnocchi.html

Here are the ingredients for my garlic butter sauce.

1 tea spoon of finely minced garlic ( use a food processor :P )
1/2 a stick of butter
2 or 3 cups of full cream milk ( if you like a heavy sauce you can use cooking creams )
some salt
some black pepper
1 table spoon of mixed herbs ( as before you can get them from Cold Storage )
1 teaspoon of powder form Parmesan cheese

Now using low medium heat, start by melting all the butter in a large sauce pan slowly. Just before the butter completely melts and right before simmering, add in the milk or cream which had been microwaved for at least 4 mins. The reason is you don't want the butter to be cooled by the cold milk or cream. Now continuously stir gently while the butter and the milk or cream is brought to a slow light boil, make sure you maintain as light a heat level just enough to bring the solution to a light simmer.

Now add in the garlic in small portions to taste. The reason is its very selective how others like their "Garlicness" in their garlic butter sauce, some like it nice and strong while some like it mild and sweet. Well now was you gotten the level of garlic taste in the solution, add salt and pepper to taste. Finally add in all the mixed herbs to the sauce with the heat turned off and stir for about a min.

Now put your boiled and drained Gnocchi in a low serving plate. If you can I prefer to microwave the plate for about 1 min to warm it up before putting the Gnocchi on it. Then spoon as much of the garlic butter sauce as you like onto the Gnocchi, bathing it in the rich tasty sauce.
Sprinkle some freshly chopped Parsley on top and some grated cheese and serve !

Buon Appetito !