Recipe: Fried Ricotta is a versatile dish

Fried Ricotta can be a dessert by topping with apricot jam as shown, or it can be a savory appetizer with marinara sauce. (Photo by Cathy Thomas)
Lidia Bastianich, celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur, writes cookbooks filled with home-cook friendly recipes. Her Fried Ricotta is one of my favorites; it was published in “Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy” (Knopf, $35).
Chilled spheres of ricotta are dredged in flour and flattened slightly into patties, and then