Nudies

These are essentially gnocchi made from swiss chard, ricotta, and egg.





























The recipe is from the cookbook Red White & Greens: The Italian Way with Vegetables, which I picked up in the discout bin of a bookstore.

According to the book "In the Florentine dialect they're called gnudi, nudies, poking fun at a dish from the Casentino, a neighboring area that makes their greens and ricotta gnocchi with the same filling Florentines use for ravioli. Nudies because they're not wearing pasta."

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