Looking for a healthy dumpling recipe? We got you covered. Here’s a recipe for spinach-basil canederli with pumpkin and crispy speck Canederli from South Tyrol and in this version, we make them with delicious spinach and basil for a healthy dish served with a pumpkin sauce and crispy speck.
Makes 8 canederli dumplings
Ingredients:
150g spelt bread for dumplings (or stale diced bread)
90g boiled and chopped spinach (or 200g fresh spinach)
60g chopped onion
50ml milk
30g cheese
10g basil
2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil
2 eggs
For the pumpkin sauce with crispy speck:
1 tablespoon of spelt flour
1 pinch of nutmeg
Salt and pepper to taste
200g pumpkin, cleaned and cut into cubes
100ml vegetable broth
100g Alto Adige Speck PGI, cut into cubes
2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil
Mixed fresh herbs to taste
Method:
Fry the onion in 2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil until golden brown. Chop the spinach and basil. Mix together the bread, chopped spinach, basil, chopped onion, eggs, milk, cheese, spelt flour, salt, and nutmeg. Let the dough rest for half an hour.
In the meantime, cook the pumpkin in the vegetable broth for 20 minutes in a saucepan. Blend and season with the fresh herbs. Brown the diced speck with a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil. Divide the spinach-basil mixture into 8 parts and form the typical canederli dumpling shapes. Cook them over low heat in boiling water for 20 minutes. To serve, pour a little pumpkin sauce on the bottom of the plate. Then place the dumplings and the diced speck on top.
Source:
Two teaspoons of extra-virgin olive oil should be used to fry the onion until it turns golden brown. Spinach and basil should be chopped. basketball stars
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