Cottage Cheese Protein
Easy high-protein meals built on cottage cheese — pancakes, buffalo ranch chicken bowls, ground beef queso, loaded salad, and taco bowls for busy weeknights.
★ breakfast
breakfastIngredients
- 1/4 C Old Fashioned Oats
- 160 grams Egg Whites
- 1/2 C NonFat Cottage Cheese
- 34.5 grams Whey Protein Powder (I use Ghost Cereal Milk)
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- 1Blend all ingredients until smooth.
- 2Spray pan with cooking spray. Cook on low. Makes 6 pancakes. Top with sugar free syrup and fruit.
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A tub of cottage cheese in the fridge means breakfast, lunch, or a quick dinner is already half done. It blends smooth into batter, melts into sauce, and holds up straight out of the carton with a few toppings piled on.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection on mornings when there's no time to cook twice, and on nights when supper needs to be filling without a long grocery list.
Every recipe here leans on cottage cheese for protein: Protein Cottage Cheese Pancakes, Buffalo Ranch Chicken Cottage Cheese Bowls, Loaded Cottage Cheese Salad with bacon and cheddar, Ground Beef Cottage Cheese Queso, Cottage Cheese Toast with tomato and avocado, and a Chicken Taco Cottage Cheese Bake with black beans.
Quick Tips
- 1
Blend it smooth first
For pancakes or dips, run the cottage cheese in a blender 30 to 45 seconds until there are no curds left. The texture comes out like batter instead of lumpy.
- 2
Warm the queso slowly
Melt cottage cheese and shredded cheese into the ground beef over low heat, stirring 5 to 6 minutes. High heat makes it separate and go grainy.
- 3
Drain the watery liquid
Tip off any liquid sitting on top before you measure, or spoon from the bottom of the tub. One cup of wet cottage cheese will thin a dip fast.
- 4
Season the bowls hard
Cottage cheese is mild, so hit savory bowls with 2 tablespoons buffalo sauce, taco seasoning, or Italian seasoning and a good pinch of pepper.
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