What to do with cottage cheese and ricotta cheese?

xxnellie146xx
xxnellie146xx Posts: 996 Member
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Help! I have some cottage cheese (I can't just eat it plain...I find it gross) and ricotta cheese and I am not sure what to do with it. Any ideas would be appreciated :flowerforyou:
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  • juicy_cat
    juicy_cat Posts: 145 Member
    put it in the bin...! Eat something nicer! :-)
  • terricakes
    terricakes Posts: 16 Member
    Ricotta cheese added to a tomato based pasta sauce makes it lovely and creamy, but still low calorie.
  • barkin43
    barkin43 Posts: 508 Member
    1 packet of stevia and 1/4 tsp cinnamon per 1/2 cup makes them much more palatable.
  • Drussander
    Drussander Posts: 266 Member
    You can:

    1. Mix cottage cheese or ricotta cheese into mashed potatoes

    2. You can melt or spread on toast with low sugar jam or blueberries

    3. Make low cal blue cheese dressing with the cottage cheese using your food processor and other ingredients

    4. Make a dip - use Ranch dressing seasoning and the food processor.

    4. Use either in a veggie lasagne

    5. mix into a pasta dish to make a creamy tomato sauce and pasta dish

    6. Make a spread with olives and other tasty items and put it on crackers.

    7. Make a cheesecake:

    http://www.blogilates.com/recipe-index/low-calorie-cottage-cheese-cheesecake


    Cottage cheese is an excellent food and a good source of protien and calcium.
  • melaniecheeks
    melaniecheeks Posts: 6,349 Member
    Cottage cheese - use it as a salad dressing, blob it onto toast with some sort of spread - marmite is good, but pumpkin seed butter or any other strong flavoured spread would do, add a load of berries and eat as dessert
  • LiftHuff
    LiftHuff Posts: 131
    can't help you with either. ricotta I find repellant, and cottage cheese I only have one recipe:

    1. Open container
    2. Pour in mouth
    3. Profit.
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    make a lasagna

    make ww pasta and stir 1/2 cup of each of them into it, add some sharp cheddar or swiss and enjoy.

    mix it into muffins/brownies/pancakes
  • Ronngie
    Ronngie Posts: 295 Member
    I love pepper on cottage cheese, but you can add fruits. Pineapple & Mandarin oranges are nice!
  • ekburnet
    ekburnet Posts: 44 Member
    YOU ROCK 71 pounds is something to be very pround of. Try the cottage cheese or ricotta cheese in a fruit smoothie.
  • DrBorkBork
    DrBorkBork Posts: 4,099 Member
    I like to blend my cottage cheese with protein powder and almond/coconut milk some times. Other times I eat it straight up with berries. Try mixing some pumpkin puree in and pumpkin spice :)
  • mgoetsch1982
    mgoetsch1982 Posts: 339 Member
    You can add them to scrambled or baked eggs. My girls love baked eggs. Scramble a bunch of eggs, mix in some cottage cheese and shredded cheese. Put in a ramikin and bake for 30 min (until it is fully cooked) at 450 degrees
  • sullykat
    sullykat Posts: 461 Member
    I made wonton lasagna in muffin tins using ricotta and cottage cheese as the cheese layer. They were about 170 cals each. Just make lasagna like you normally would, only insteaed of pasta and a baking dish use wonton wrappers and a muffin tin.
  • lamoursuffit
    lamoursuffit Posts: 267 Member
    Eat it,DUH!

    lol but really, ricotta is a good addition to omelettes, makes it creamier! Cottage cheese is really good inside a half of a cantaloupe.
  • zaph0d
    zaph0d Posts: 1,172 Member
    Cheesecake.
  • Embooya
    Embooya Posts: 222 Member
    Mix the Cottage Cheese up with a Banana...Good Stuff.
  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    put it in the bin...! Eat something nicer! :-)

    if you don't LIKE it and you don't like the things that are made with it then do this! I don't believe in eating foods you don't like.
  • zenchild
    zenchild Posts: 680 Member
    I don't know the actual recipe but a few months ago I put ricotta, cocoa powder and sweetener together and used an immersion blender to beat it until it was the consistency of mousse. Very tasty. A food processor or blender would probably work as well. After I got the flavor right I let it sit in the fridge for a day. That let the cocoa powder get absorbed a bit better and the flavor develop. It was pretty damn tasty.
  • homemomfreda
    homemomfreda Posts: 50
    You can make Biggest Loser Oatmeal pancakes with your cottage cheese - delish!!
  • Denjo060
    Denjo060 Posts: 1,008
    chop up some tomatoes and add them to the cottage cheese with some black pepper as for the Ricotti cheese make some cupcake lasagna if you want the recipe its on here in recipes in the forums one of my MFP friends has it on Sadly though I dont remember who But I do have the recipe saved if you want it message me
  • Molly_Maguire
    Molly_Maguire Posts: 1,103 Member
    Stuff pasta shells with ricotta and spinach with a little marinara sauce on top. DELICIOUS!

    Dang it. now I'm starving, thanks a lot! :)

    typos
  • Courtabeth
    Courtabeth Posts: 8 Member
    I JUST ate a cup of cottage cheese mixed with sugar-free jelly (both blueberry and strawberry.) Really yummy. Other times, I mix it with diet hot chocolate mix and a trace of honey. Real good!
  • Sponcava
    Sponcava Posts: 1
    Cottage cheese + sliced banana + canned peaches: delicious!

    Or how about blueberries and sliced strawberries?

    Or applebutter?
  • shelbyweeeee
    shelbyweeeee Posts: 154 Member
    Cheesecake.

    ^^ This!!

    There's a cheesecake group on MFP - check it out and read the different variations! They are all great! :bigsmile:
  • dave4d
    dave4d Posts: 1,155 Member
    Ricotta Cheese:

    Pumpkin Cheesecake.
    2 cups low fat ricotta cheese
    1 can pumpkin puree
    1/2 cup sugar free syrup
    5 tbsp sugar substitute
    1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
    1 tsp vanilla extract
    3/4 cup vanilla protein powder
    1 ready crust reduced fat graham cracker crust
    1 cup fat free whipped cream.

    bake at 400 deg. for abou15 minutes, cool for about 2 hours in refrigerator, and top with the whipped cream.
  • Dinky_do
    Dinky_do Posts: 3
    Eat it with apples, a drizzle of honey, and some cinnamon.

    Eat it with pineapples.

    Cantaloupe. Sounds wierd but it is so delicious. Just cut one in half, remove the seeds, fill the hole with cottage cheese and dig in.

    On pasta, preferably wide egg noodles

    On toast with cinnamon (need to toast, top and then toast again) YUM!

    With cut up bananas (maybe with a bit of strawberry jam)'

    With cut up peaches (you can use the dole fruit cups, too)
  • xxnellie146xx
    xxnellie146xx Posts: 996 Member
    Thank you everyone for your suggestions! I get stuck in a rut and tend to eat the same things over and over, so I truly appreciate it!
  • Live4More
    Live4More Posts: 177 Member
    put it in the bin...! Eat something nicer! :-)

    This :laugh:
  • jkmiller82
    jkmiller82 Posts: 214 Member
    I'm starting to really get into Cottage Cheese.

    Mix it with a bit of pesto and eat it with tomatoes.

    Beat some into eggs before you scramble them.

    Mix it into mac and cheese for a healthier version.
    Here's a recipe: http://www.thatsfit.com/2009/08/06/macaroni-and-cheese/

    I'm going to mix it with pasta sauce soon to make a pink sauce.

    Also good: Just dump some hot sauce on it!

    Not to big on the sweet stuff, like fruit with it. Yuck!
  • PaleoRDH
    PaleoRDH Posts: 266
    so this isn't necessarily "diet" but there's a pizzeria in town that puts ricotta on their pizzas and OMG.......... heaven.
  • PaleoRDH
    PaleoRDH Posts: 266
    OH i don't eat cottage cheese but the only way my BFF can eat it is with a generous amount of Southwest Chipotle Mrs. Dash mixed into it.

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