Take your ricotta and place in a cheese cloth or a clean dry Kitchen towel, you want to squeeze out as much liquid from your ricotta. You can keep your ricotta wrapped up in the clean kitchen towel for about 20-30 minutes to dry it out as much as possible. If using a cheesecloth, you can try and suspend your cheese cloth over a bowl so water drips out. Set aside.
Boil your spinach and rest on sieve over a bowl to cool and drain for about 20 minutes. Use the back of a spoon to press the spinach so that water is pushed out. You want the spinach as dry as possible. Set aside.
Chop your spinach when it is dry and place that in a large bowl and add your ricotta.
Add nutmeg, salt, pepper and egg and use a fork to mix all the ingredients together so they are well combined.
Add your grated parmesan and mix in.
Add about 1/2 cup of flour OR semolina and mix in. Your dough should be firm and come together easily. If your dough seems a little wet add flour OR semolina little by little until it is firm. I usually use a little over 1/2 cup of flour or semolina.
Grab a large serving dish and place flour in the dish. Divide your dough into 14 balls, I use a tablespoon. It will be tacky souse the flour you have set aside to help you roll out your balls in your palm. You may make bigger or smaller balls and this will increase or decrease your total number. You can make them as big as a golf ball or slightly smaller. You want to coat each ball in a layer of flour, and set aside until you are ready to boil.
TIP: BEFORE DIVIDING YOUR DOUGH AND FORMING GNUDI, form a slightly smaller ball, a tester, and coat in flour. In a pot of boiling water, test it out to see if it falls apart. when it floats, it means it is ready. Taste test and check for texture, flavour and its durability while it cooks. You may need to adjust seasoning or perhaps add more flour or semolina to keep your dough balls firmer.
Place a pot of water on the stove and salt generously. I don't make mine as salty as pasta water (as salty as the ocean), but I place a large pinch of salt in my water.
The pot of water should be very hot but should not have a rolling boil (large bubbles). While the water is heating up, your formed balls can rest slightly.
Carefully place your formed gnudi into the water and boil for under 5 minutes until they float.
Carefully remove from your pot of water and serve as desired.
Serving Suggestion 1: For serving, you may either space gnudi on a plate and serve with your favourite red Italian sauce. Enjoy with more parmesan on top!
Serving Suggestion 2: Alternatively you can brown butter in a pan with sage and a squeeze of lemon. Carefully place your gnudi in your pan with brown butter and sage and carefully spoon brown butter over your gnudi. Plate it up and enjoy with more parmesan on top!