I have prepared the "malfatti" with the Quartirolo cheese because it has a more strong taste than the "ricotta" but the same lightness. So I have done such important sauce called "finanziera".

Gualtiero Marchesi

Ingredients for 4 persons:

350gr of fresh Lombard Quartirolo, 150gr of mice and boiled spinach leaves, 50gr of flour, 30gr of butter, nutmeg, salt and pepper.

The finanziera sauce:
150gr of calf sweetbreads, 150gr of boiled cock's combs and wattles, 80gr of chicken's liver, 50gr of mushrooms, 30gr of butter, 2, ½ glasses of Marsala dry wine, salt and pepper.

How to prepare it

Boil the sweetbreads for 5 minutes, let them cool, peel off their skin and cut them. Liquefy the butter add combs wattles and livers in small pieces. Wet them with the Marsala wine and cook with salt and pepper. Mix the Lombard Quartirolo add the spinach salt pepper and a little nutmeg. Take the paste with a spoon and form little balls. Roll them in flour and cook them in salty water. Put the "finanziera" sauce in plates and lay down gently the little boiled balls (malfatti). Serve hot.