This garlic-lovers favorite is an elegant vegetarian dish to keep in the freezer for special occasions or a delicious family meal.
Ingredients:
- 4 slices white bread
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 lb frozen spinach thawed
- 8 oz ricotta cheese
- 2 eggs
- 2 oz parmesan cheese, grated
- 1/4 cup plain flour
- Parmesan shavings
- 3 1/2 oz butter
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
- 3 T chopped fresh basil
- 1 ripe tomato diced
Directions:
- Removed the crusts from the bread and soak in milk in a shallow dish for 10 minutes. Squeeze out any excess milk from the bread.
- Squeeze out any liquid from the spinach.
- Place bread, spinach, ricotta, eggs and Parmesan in a bowl and mix.
- Fold in flour.
- Refrigerate, covered for 1 hour.
- Lightly dust your hands in flour and roll heaped teaspoons of the mixture into dumplings.
- Lower batches of the gnocchi into a large saucepan of boiling salted water.
- Cook for about 2 minutes, or until the gnocchi rise to the surface. Transfer to serving plate.
- Freeze at this point in plastic container.
To make the sauce:
Combine all the ingredients in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat for 3 minutes, or until the butter is nutty brown.
Freeze in plastic container.
Directions for preparing frozen meal:
- Drop gnocchi in boiling water again for less than a minute.
- Heat sauce in saucepan just until simmering. Stir constantly.
- Drizzle sauce over hot gnocchi.
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