Ricotta Gnocchi

Ricotta Gnocchi

Ingredients
500 grs. fresh ricotta mashed100 grs. butter50 grs. of cream without serum1 cup (tea) grated Parmesan cheese1 cup (tea) of steamed spinach and squeezed2 large egg yolks8-10 tablespoons (soup) of wheat flour

How to Prepare:
Wash the spinach, squeeze well, then dry with paper towel.
Place it in a saucepan, bring the fire until wilted, put three to five minutes, no more than that.
Then squeeze the spinach well, squeezing well in hand, until it sequinho, cut and kid
Can replace the spinach put parsley in the same proportion
If using spinach, eat fast, because it oxidizes
How to Prepare the Dough:
Knead the ricotta with a fork, add the spinach and dry, stir to get a homogeneous mass.
Add butter, sour cream, egg yolks, grated Parmesan cheese, and put last the flour gradually and slowly to give point to curl.If the dough is soft add more grated cheese.No wheat flour dough cakes.
The dough should be very stiff, giving to roll with hands.
If you want you can curl up on the table, being careful not to put too much flour.
Cut the gnocchi not too small an inch, and the thickness of your thumb.
Put a pot on fire with plenty of water with a tablespoon of oil, boil.
When boiling, place three or four gnocchi to test the texture, make sure it is tight, or too soft.
If it is too hard, chop them all, and add a little cream if they get mushy and break is because the spinach was not tightly squeezed.In case of emergency put more flour and a little grated cheese.Cook the gnocchi in boiling water with a tablespoon of oil as you would pasta.Once you go up to the surface, leaving cooking put another three to five minutes.
Pass the gnocchi to colander.
With the help of a slotted spoon, remove the gnocchi from the pot very carefully not to deform and become quite dented.The above recipe, made with due care, the gnocchi are perfect and beautiful
Observation
You can use the same dough to make inhocão
Inhocão:

Using the same mass as ricotta gnocchi
Open the mass of I gnocchi, a napkin on floured thickness of one centimeterPlace a layer of sliced ​​ham and put up a layer of sliced ​​mozzarella.Roll like jelly roll. Tie the ends of the napkin with cotton string wholesalePut Inhocão to cook a large pot with enough water.If you want to make two small Inhocão.Cooking separated one at a timeOnce cooked move to an ovenproof dish and put back up put tomato sauce or white sauce, add mushrooms put up before servingDo not forget to put up enough sprinkle grated Parmesan cheese

Bechamel Sauce

½ liter of cow's milk3 tablespoons flour shallow2 tablespoons of butter and filled

Other Ingredients

150 grs. of cream with the serum350 grs. mushrooms cooked or canned sliced150 grs. ground ham or cooked chicken and ground150 grs. of grated mozzarella on thin thick100 grs. grated Parmesan cheese1 pinch of grated ginger1 pinch of grated nutmeg


Melt the butter, add the flour, stir well to avoid lumps, then add the hot milk, leave the fire until it thickens
If you want can roast a little flour in a pan, do not let dark.
When making white sauce, if you do not have much practice combine flour, out of the fire.
Can replace half the milk put cream with the serum
After the sauce ready, or add other ingredients, sour cream, mushrooms, ham, mozzarella, nutmeg and grated ginger.
Before Serving put enough grated Parmesan cheese