Ingredients

500g goat’s cheese
1kg ricotta
50g parmesan
3 egg yolks
300g 00 pasta flour, plus extra to flour a tray
8g salt
vegetable oil, for frying
chopped chives, to serve
BEURRE BLANC
300ml dry white wine
100ml white wine vinegar
1 shallot, sliced
5g peppercorns
2 bay leaves
50ml cream
150g unsalted butter, cold, cut into small cubes
½ lemon

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Instructions

1.Heat the oven to 220℃.
2.Mix the goat’s cheese, ricotta, parmesan and egg yolks in a large bowl.
3.Add the flour and salt and mix until fully combined.
4.Roll the mixture with your hands into balls (roughly 40g each) and place the prepared balls onto a floured tray.
5.Put the tray into the fridge for a few hours or overnight.
6.When ready to cook, bring a large pot of water to the boil and cook the gnudi until they float, about 4 minutes. Drain.
7.Heat some vegetable oil in a heavy, ovenproof frying pan and brown the gnudi.
8.Once brown, put into the oven and bake for 5 minutes.
9.BEURRE BLANC
10.To make a reduction for the beurre blanc, put the wine, vinegar, shallot, peppercorns and bay leaves in a saucepan.
11.Cook on high until reduced by half. Strain into a bowl (it can be refrigerated at this stage to use later).
12.Bring 100ml of the reduction to the boil. Add the cream and bring back to the boil.
13.Lower the heat and whisk in the butter cubes one by one.
14.Add salt to season and squeeze in lemon juice to taste.
15.To serve, spoon the beurre blanc onto four plates, then place the gnudi on top.
16.Garnish with chopped chives .

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