So, every week during lent on Friday I will be sharing a meatless meal with you all and I am inviting everyone to link up to a meatless recipe on their own blog.
The only rules are:
1. You must post a link to the actual recipe on your blog and not to your front page.
2. Please place a link in your blog post back here so everyone can find all of our recipes.
3. Only post one recipe per week.
Thats it!
Here is my recipe for this week.
When I was a young bride, Poppa and I would occasionally go out to eat on the weekends. His favorite dish was always gnocchi. To surprise him at home once in a while I would purchase gnocchi in the refigerator case and make but it never held a candle to the restaurant version. One day, inspired to make it myself, I spent 3 hours with an Italian cookbook only to come out with a mushy mess I was embarrased to show him…back to the refigerated stuff.
It was only a few years ago that I ran across an easy version with ricotta instead of potatoes in a doctors office magazine. I jotted down the recipe from the magazine and threw it in my binder. It was probably a whole year later that I was organizing all my recipes into a binder that I found that slip of paper and started playing around with it. After a few attempts, I made a gnocchi that was BETTER than the restaurant and so easy. In this recipe I add lemon zest but you could leave it out if you like. I also love to add fresh minced tarragon instead. The other thing you can do is pan fry them in butter instead of boiling and they are yummy but Poppa likes them like this.
No Fuss Ricotta Gnocchi
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
1 cup whole milk ricotta cheese
1 large egg
1 tsp lemon zest (only the yellow part of the skin, use a microplaner)
1 tsp sea salt
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