Whipped Ricotta Toasts With Green Garlic, Peas and Prosciutto

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By G. Daniela Galarza

Whipping store-bought (or homemade) ricotta successful a nutrient processor produces a creamy, pillowy basal for spring’s greenish vegetables. This look calls for frozen peas, but consciousness escaped to usage fresh, shelled peas instead; they’ll instrumentality a fewer much minutes to cook. Or you tin substitute fennel, shelled fava beans, arugula oregon drawback peas, rapidly cooked oregon earthy and crisp. Thin slices of prosciutto marque a bully accompaniment, though aren’t not essential. Shaved Parmesan, chile lipid oregon a fewer drops of aged balsamic would beryllium bully connected top, too.

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Storage: Refrigerate leftover ricotta and vegetables successful abstracted covered containers for up to 2 days.

From unit writer G. Daniela Galarza.

Ingredients

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Servings: 2-4 (makes 4 toasts)

4 heavy slices crusty bread, each astir arsenic ample arsenic your hand
1 cupful (about 8 ounces) full beverage ricotta
2 teaspoons finely grated citrus zest (from 1 lemon), divided
1 spoon honey
Pinch crushed reddish capsicum flakes, positive much to taste
Fine oversea salt
Freshly cracked achromatic pepper
1 tablespoonful olive oil
6 stalks greenish ail oregon scallions, trimmed, halved lengthwise and chopped into 1- to 2-inch pieces
1/2 cupful water
6 ounces frozen peas
4 to 8 slices prosciutto (about 2 to 4 ounces, optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
370
Fat
19 g
Saturated Fat
8 g
Carbohydrates
35 g
Sodium
211 mg
Cholesterol
30 mg
Protein
12 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
11 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From unit writer G. Daniela Galarza.

Tested by G. Daniela Galarza and Alexis Sargent.

Published June 8, 2021

Updated March 17, 2026