Vegetable Dumplings

Vegetable Dumplings

this is a Tuscan typical dish: tortelli without the pasta, in other words balls stuffed with vegetables and ricotta cheese, topped with tomato or meat sauce.

Quick, tasty recipe, ideal for children!

Ingredients for 4 people

400 gr. fresh ricotta cheese

400gr. fresh spinach

2 eggs

50gr. grated parmesan cheese

nutmeg, salt and pepper

2 tablespoons olive oil

100gr.flour

Wash and cook the spinach in a pan with two tablespoons of olive oil and a salt. In a bowl, pour ricotta, eggs, Parmesan cheese and spinach finely chopped. Add salt, pepper and nutmeg. Stir the mixture  until smooth not liquid, if it seems a little thick, add in two / three tablespoons of flour.

Boil 1,5 lt of salted water and start to prepare dumplings using your hands, roll them in the flour and put in boiled water. Dumplings will be cooked as soon as they come to the surface, serve with hot tomato sauce or meat sauce.