Who said that pancakes can only be sweet? Served with vegetables, they are a great spring second course or the highlight of the Sunday picnic
The spinach they are a delicious spring vegetable: rich in iron and vitamins, they have a delicate flavor that tends to be sweet and can be appreciated even by children. Needless to say, they marry perfectly with the ricotta cheese: we all have this combination in the filling of ravioli or in the Pasqualina cake, just tasted on our tables?
But if we told you that thepaired with ricotta and spinach is it a winner also in many other dishes? Try these recipes and then tell us what you think.
Spinach gnocchi with ricotta cream
Spinach is well suited as a main ingredient of gnocchi. After passing the potatoes read in the potato masher and have also boiled and chopped spinach, bring them together with flour and egg whites, to obtain a homogeneous mixture. Create small round dumplings. Meanwhile, heat the ricotta cheese in a saucepan with 50 g of milk, salt and pepper. Cook the gnocchi in the pan, after having boiled them, with the cream obtained. You will not be able to resist!
Cannelloni with spinach and ricotta
These cannelloni are also known as cannelloni di thin, vegetarian alternative to those stuffed with ragù. How to cook them? After having prepared and leveled the dough, cutting it into small rectangles, and having prepared separately bechamel, sauté the boiled spinach, together with the shallot and ricotta. With this mixture, stuff the rectangles of dough and roll them, obtaining the famous cannelloni. Place it in the pan and sprinkle with béchamel. They will be the highlight of your Sunday lunches.
Spinach and ricotta meatballs
Here is a greedy version to try to make children eat spinach. The meatballs everyone always likes them. To prepare them, boil them spinach and chop them coarsely. Put them in a bowl, add the ricotta, a whole egg, grated parmesan, salt and nutmeg. Mix, obtaining a mixture, which you will subdivide into small balls to fry, after having passed them in white flour, then in the egg and finally in the breadcrumbs.
Spaghetti with ricotta and spinach
For this recipe, you can use whole spaghetti, as an alternative to the normal ones. While boiling the pasta, do the same with spinach. Then sauté them in a pan with a fried shallot. Once cooked, blend them with a mixer to get one puree. In a pan, add this puree with ricotta, until you get one homogeneous cream. The spaghetti are ready: add them to the cream and stir. Here is a mouth-watering dish, simple and fast!
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