Cheat’s spinach and ricotta parcels

Ingredients

• 3-4 cups Spinach or silverbeet, chopped
• 1 tub ricotta (about 250g)
• 1 medium Onion, finely diced
• 1-2 clove Garlic, minced
• 1 pinch Nutmeg
• 1 Egg
• packet Spring roll wrappers
• Tomato sauce/pasta sauce of your choice
• Olive oil

Directions

1. First, steam your spinach and allow to cool enough to wring out well.
2. In a bowl, mix the spinach, ricotta, onion, garlic, nutmeg and egg.  This is your filling.
3. Prepare your pasta sauce (I made a rich garlic and tomato sauce) and put to one side.
4. Fill a wide bowl with hot water.
5. One at a time, put spring roll wrappers in the bowl.  Leave about 10-15 seconds, until the wrapper is pliable but not falling apart.
6. Pull the wrapper out, set down on the bench and fill with some of the filling.  Keep a decent margin around the end so you can fold it into a parcel.
7. Fold the edges of the wrapper towards the middle.  If you place one edge on top of another and leave for a little while they should stick to each other.
8. Place on a plate with the seam side down.
9. Put another spring roll wrapper in the water and continue the process until all your filling is used.  Mine made about 16.
10. Once all your parcels are complete, heat a splash of olive oil in a large frypan on medium high heat.
11. Fry your parcels on each side until golden (this is optional but I thought it was worth doing).
12. Then, add your sauce to the frypan and heat with the parcels until the centre of the parcels is warmed through.
13. Serve with a glass of your favourite wine and marvel at your own ingenuity.