Bowtie Pasta with Mushroom Sauce
Easy
Ricotta Dumplings / Gnocchi di Ricotta
SERVES 6
These are gnocchi as made in the Marches. Unlike potato gnocchi, which are shaped on the tines of a fork and boiled, these are shaped into ovals or eggs using two soup spoons and then baked. They are light and delicious. Chill the mixture first for easier forming.
Ingredients
- INGREDIENTS1 1/3 cups ricotta cheese, well drained
- 1 cup packed cooked spinach, well squeezed and chopped
- 1/4 cup diced Fontina cheese
- 1/4 cup diced Swiss cheese
- 1/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons toasted fresh bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter, softened
- 2 large egg yolks, beaten
- Salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 1/2 cups tomato sauce
Directions
- DIRECTIONSIn a large bowl, mix all the ingredients except the tomato sauce.
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Using 2 soup spoons, form gnocchi into oval or egg shapes using a little less than 1/4 cup of the mixture for each. There should be about twenty 2 1/2-inch-long gnocchi. Place them close together, but not touching, in a buttered 13 1/2 by 8-inch baking dish. Cover the gnocchi with the tomato sauce and bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until hot. Serve immediately.
- Note: Sometimes a white sauce is used in addition to the tomato sauce. Spread the baking dish with the white sauce before adding the gnocchi.
This recipe was featured on Season 4 - Episode 403.
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Comments
Sue Bumgarner
Sounds like grandma’s dumplings. I had almost forgotten until I saw the picture and read the recipe. I am also looking for grandma’s recipe for cheese pie , and saw it is listed here also. Thank you,thank you!