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I have a confession to make - I didn't even know what gnocchi were before this challenge! Neither had I used ricotta before. Interesting stuff!
I found a 250g tub of ricotta at the supermarket, which was just about the right amount to make half the recipe. I drained it overnight and then some, using an awful lot of kitchen roll.
Here's the gnocchi-ready ricotta:
Mixed up with eggs and other goodness (I added both lemon rind and nutmeg to the dough):
Formed into dumplings:
Lemon-thyme-butter-sauce'd:
Voila!
Thoughts: They were quite pleasant to eat, with a nice light texture, but I don't think I'd make them again. I don't know, perhaps it was because I tried to eat it all... halfway through, the realisation set in that I was pretty much eating cheese drenched in butter. :P
Cheese drenched in butter should taste good. My ricotta gnocchi was lovely and light, but tasteless. Seems everyone who used homemade ricotta loved it. Guess that was my mistake. I used store bought.
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