For the spinach dumplings, first defrost the frozen spinach or wash the fresh spinach. Now cut the onions and garlic cloves into small cubes and sauté in a pan with a little olive oil.
If using fresh spinach, cut it into strips and sauté in the pan as well. Then put the pan aside and let it cool down.
Cut the bread from the day before into cubes and mix with the milk, eggs, salt and pepper in a bowl and let it soak. If using frozen spinach, stir it into the diced bread mixture as well.
Then stir flour, bread crumbs, grated Parmesan cheese and the onion mixture from the pan into the bowl. Season the mixture to taste and then form dumplings with wet hands.
In the meantime, bring water to a boil. Now put the firmly formed dumplings into the boiling water and simmer gently for about 20-30 minutes.
Meanwhile, you can caramelize the almonds with the barley malt or honey in a pan and set aside. Before taking the spinach dumplings all out of the water, taste a sample dumpling! Then arrange each plate with 2 tablespoons of ricotta, a few caramelized almonds and the dumplings.
Finally, sprinkle some grated Parmesan cheese on top and decorate with some parsley or other green herbs.