Potato and Spinach Bocconcini

Recipe Rating:	7 Ratings5
Category:	Other Appetizers
Keyword:	Sicilain
Serves:	8
Prep Time:	1 Hr
Cook Time:	10 Min

Ingredients

1 1/2 lb	spinach, fresh
3 medium	potatoes, russets
2 large	egg
2 oz	shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 tsp	kosher salt
1/2 tsp	pepper
1/4 c	all purpose flour
1 lb	butter, unsalted

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mike sabella

Lightly Salted

san francisco, CA (pop. 805,235)

msabella

Member Since Feb 2012

mike's Notes:

Growing up in a Sicilian family in San Francisco's North Beach was special. I spent every Sunday at my Nonna's with my family, 27 cousins, 4 aunts, 4 uncles, my Nonna and her mother Nonna-Wawa. Nonna would feed all 44 of us! I loved to help her roll the Bocconcini and watch her fry them in butter. They tasted great too!

Comments from the Test Kitchen:

Does it get any better than fried spinach and potatoes? Yum!!!

Directions

Boil the spinach in a cup of water with a ½ teaspoon of salt. Boil the potatoes until tender all the way through.

Peel the potatoes and pass them through a food mill along with the spinach. Add two egg yolks and one egg white to the potato/spinach mixture. Add the Mozzarella cheese, pepper, and a ¼ cup of flour and mix all together completely.

Make 2 inch balls of the mixture, brush them with egg white, roll them in flour and fry them in an abundant amount of butter.

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sara shellenberger lawerencetaylor56

Feb 24, 2012

the recipe sounds delicous

sara shellenberger lawerencetaylor56

I tried this recipe and say it's Family Tested & Approved!

Kitchen Crew JustaPinch

I tried this recipe and say it's Family Tested & Approved!

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deb baldwin messinthekitchen

Mar 30, 2012

Congratulations, Mike on your first blue ribbon!

Hildi Valenzano cinciMom

Apr 3, 2012

WOW, lucky you..what great memories you must have. I can't wait to try this recipe for my Easter brunch, it sounds awesome. Congratulations on your blue ribbon!

Nancy Beckham luvs2laugh

Apr 3, 2012

Congrats Mike!! Loved your story about the family - I have a large Italian family also and we all went to dinner at my Nona's for every holiday. I lived up the hill from her and she always invited me and my husband for dinner after work. She had a huge garden and grew all her own vegetables - I just loved her to pieces. She was a wonderful Nona and a fantastic cook all from memory! Can't wait to try this recipe!!

LaTisha Harris latisha1017

Apr 3, 2012

what can I use in place of a Food Mill?? A food processor maybe?

Thanks

Lesley Coleman lesleypaige

Apr 4, 2012

Sounds great. Can't wait to try it. Congrats Mike on your Blue Ribbon!!

Jo-Ann Chesney... TexasDanceAngel

Apr 4, 2012

Hi Mike, I just saw your name & recipe & am wondering if you are a relative of mine from my mom's side of the family. Uncles, Carmello, Gustave, Aunt Catherine, my mom, Josephine Sabella Chesney. My grandmother was Angela La Rocca. Have a cousin Marilyn in Manhattan Beach, CA, cousin Joe Sabella in NJ.

Jo~Ann