Gnudi

I ran across Giada De Laurentis' recipe for Gnudi on a blog, and I decided I had to try it. The first time I made it, I had some left over ricotta cheese from another recipe, and that contributed to the appeal for making them. Gnudi is basically ravioli filling without the pasta on the outside. I still ate it with spaghetti noodles, but I guess if you're trying to watch your carb intake, you could eat it by itself.

Giada's recipe is fairly simple, and you make patties first with the ingredients:

 You cook the patties in rapidly boiling water:

And I served them over pasta with sauce: