Try these cheese and spinach dumplings for a change from regular pasta. Serve with your favorite pasta sauce. They are delish! Thanks to my Mom for finding the recipe.
Ingredients:
1 (16 oz.) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed
1 cup ricotta cheese
2 eggs, plus 2 egg yokes
1 teaspoon dried Italian herbs
Garlic salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour, divided
8 cups water
1 1/4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese, divided
Directions:
- Bring 8 cups of water to a boil over high heat.
- Spray baking dish with Pam cooking spray. Set aside.
- Pre heat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Squeeze all excess water from thawed spinach and place in a large bowl.
- Add ricotta, 1 cup parmesan, 1 cup flour, eggs, yolks, Italian seasoning, pepper and garlic salt to spinach in bowl.
- Mix well.
- Shape mixture into 8-10 balls.
- With remaining flour, pat outside of balls until just covered.
- Reduce heat under boiling water to medium, keeping a rolling boil.
- Carefully place dumplings into water one or two at a time.
- Cook 2 minutes, until dumplings begin to float to surface.
- Remove with a slotted spoon and place in prepared baking dish.
- Repeat with remaining dumplings.
- Sprinkle remaining parmesan cheese on top dumplings.
- Bake, uncovered, 20 minutes.
- Serve with your favorite pasta sauce.
