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Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for ricotta fritters with chard and sage butter | Quick and easy

Light and pleasingly rustic dumplings of ricotta, parmesan and chard, fried until golden and doused in sage butterI have wonderful memories of making spinach and ricotta malfatti (best described as wonderfully light, wonkily formed, fresh gnocchi-type dumplings) from the late, great Russell Norman’s Venice cookbook. He suggests forming them by dropping them into a wine glass of polenta, swirling the glass to coat each malfatti, then poaching. I made them for my parents’ first visit to our new home, and encouraged everyone to get involved by swirling their own; I also made them for weaning (with a little less salt) and got my daughter, Alba, involved as soon as she was old enough to hold a wine glass. They’re that good. But now, with not one but two toddlers to contend with, I make life a lot easier by turning them into fritters, and use up the insane quantities of chard from the garden at the same time. This is my homage to Russell’s original. Continue reading...


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