Cottage Cheese

I love cottage cheese, but I've recently fallen in love with ricotta cheese. I've gotten the Kroger brand and have eaten it plain. It's not as salty as cottage cheese and has a different texture, but it has just as much protein and I prefer the taste of it. I've also gotten Lamagna brand lite ricotta cheese. The texture is nearly identical to that of yogurt, but without the tangy sour taste found in plain yogurt. I mix it with a half serving of instant coffee and it tastes SO GOOD. It's like a naughty dessert that actually helps me fill my protein macro.

I like it with diced tomatoes, avocado, and sliced cucumbers and then drizzled with a bit of Catalina dressing.

My family has a favorite dip made with cottage cheese:

Calico Dip

1 cup low-fat cottage cheese
1 cup light sour cream
1/2 cup light mayonnaise
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup green onion minced
1/4 cup radishes, minced
1/4 cup cucumber, minced
1/4 cup green pepper, finely diced
1 garlic clove, minced

1. Combine cottage cheese, sour cream, and mayonnaise. Add in sugar (if using), salt, minced garlic, and all the veggies. Stir well and refrigerate for at least an hour to blend flavors.

2. Serve with celery sticks, carrot sticks, or any other veggie dippers -- great with potato chips too!

Servings: 8

Cooking Times
Preparation Time: 30 minutes

Nutrition Facts
Serving size: 1/8 of a recipe (2.9 ounces).
Percent daily values based on the Reference Daily Intake (RDI) for a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition information calculated from recipe ingredients.

Amount Per Serving
Calories 136.1
Calories From Fat (71%) 96.23
% Daily Value
Total Fat 10.93g 17%
Saturated Fat 4.22g 21%
Cholesterol 20.67mg 7%
Sodium 223.97mg 9%
Potassium 106.49mg 3%
Total Carbohydrates 7.44g 2%
Fiber 0.19g <1%
Sugar 2.5g
Protein 2.91g 6%

I LOVE cottage cheese! I could eat it with just about anything, I think. (Ok, maybe not ice cream....)

I like to add it as a side to almost any main meal that has a tomato-ey or spicy sauce in it. We also like it with pizza (my husband and kids actually put it ON their pizza sometimes!), and different casseroles. Like others said, it's really good on baked potatoes, instead of sour cream, (along with some crumbled bacon and a little cheese...mmm). It also works in soups where you would use sour cream.

For something sweet, I like it with fruit. (Sometimes, I microwave a cut-up apple until it's tender and then put cottage cheese and cinnamon on it for a little bit of comfort food.) Applesauce is good, too!

I mix pumpkin puree , stevia and cinnamon into my cottage cheese, it kinda tastes like pumpkin cheesecake.

I eat my cottage cheese with frozen berries (rasp, blue, black, strawberries). I put my cottage cheese in a plastic container the night before, add the frozen berries and some Splenda and leave it in the fridge overnight. By morning, the berries have thawed, but are still kinda firm and crunchy. Yummy breakfast!

I have mine with saltine crackers or canned peaches.

I just mix fruit in it. Pineapple is my favorite : )

also, mix one container with one package of sugar free jello (dry) and some canned whipped cream. Delicious!!! though no one believes me.

I like to count out a serving size of Pretzel thins and scoop up with cottage cheese. Sometimes adding a slice of sundried tomato un top. Sounds weird, but surprisingly tasty!

I sweeten mine with vanilla extract, Truvia, and cinnamon.