Cooking with our New Quark Cheese!

Quark Gnocchi
This recipe is so simple and full of amazing Jersey Girls ingredients!!  This recipe makes enough for 6-8 people as a side dish or for 4 people as a main course.

• 1 pound Jersey Girls Quark
  
• 2 Jersey Girls eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 1/2 cups grated hard cheese (like Consider Bardwell Farms Rupert)
  
• 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 4oz Jersey Girls  unsalted butter
  

Stir together quark, eggs, 1 cup grated cheese, nutmeg, and 1/4 teaspoon each of salt and pepper. Add flour, stirring to form a soft, wet dough.

Shape dough on a well-floured surface with lightly floured hands into 1-inch-thick ropes. Cut crosswise into 1-inch pieces with a lightly floured knife. Put in 1 layer on a lightly floured parchment-lined baking sheet.

Cook gnocchi in 2 batches in a pot of boiling salted water (3 tablespoons salt for 6 quarts water), adding a few at a time to the pot and stirring occasionally, until cooked through (cut one in half to check), 5-6 minutes per batch. Lift out with a slotted spoon and drain in colander.

Meanwhile, cook butter in a 12-inch heavy skillet over medium-low heat until golden brown, about 5 minutes.

Toss gnocchi with brown butter in skillet and sprinkle with remaining grated cup of cheese. Season with salt.

For a delicious variation, toss with sauteed seasonal vegetables for a hearty vegetarian entree!


photo by Romulo Yanes

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