Spinach and Ricotta Gnudi with Tomato-Butter Sauce

Name: Spinach and Ricotta Gnudi with Tomato-Butter Sauce
Yield: Serves 4 as a main dish or 6 as a side dish
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 12 ounces (1½ cups), whole-milk ricotta cheese; 1/2 cup, all-purpose flour; 1 ounce, Parmesan cheese, grated (1⁄2 cup), plus extra for garnishing; 1 tablespoon, panko bread crumbs; 3/4 teaspoon, table salt, plus salt for cooking gnudi; 1/2 teaspoon, pepper; 1/4 teaspoon, grated lemon zest; 10 ounces, frozen whole-leaf spinach, thawed and squeezed dry; 2 , large egg whites, lightly beaten; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 3 , garlic cloves, sliced thin; 12 ounces cherry or, grape tomatoes, halved; 2 teaspoons, cider vinegar; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1/4 teaspoon, pepper; 2 tablespoons shredded, fresh basil

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2021, America's Test Kitchen TV

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Cobbled together from ricotta and greens, these dumplings have long evoked rustic Italian cooking. Yet precision is required to get their pillowy texture just right.

SERVES4 as a main dish or 6 as a side dish

TIME1¼ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Pillowy, verdant, milky-rich gnudi are Italian dumplings cobbled together from ricotta and greens (usually fresh spinach or chard), delicately seasoned, and bound with egg and flour and/or bread crumbs. The trick to making them well is wate...

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