Cottage Cheese inspo
Things to do with Cottage Cheese
Cottage cheese is one of those foods I have learned to love as it ticks so many boxes nutritionally. It’s a widely-available cheap low-fat source of calcium and protein. When you’re shopping, automatically add a pot into your basket, so you actually have it at home. Note the ‘best before’ date and plan when you’re going to use it so you’re not continually tossing out pots of cottage cheese (speaking from experience). It can be somewhat bland on its own, so here is how I sneak it into my everyday menu.
Omelette: Pour omelette mix (beaten eggs, veg and herbs) into frying pan, sprinkle a tablespoon of cottage cheese on top. Delicious, especially if you finish it under the grill.
Baked potato topping: mix with some corn kernels or spoon it au natural over a baked potato, Also good with baked potato and baked beans.
Nutritious Brushcetta: Lightly toast some good quality rye or brown bread, add room-temperature sliced tomatoes, freshly ripped basil, a dollop of cottage cheese and a good grind of black pepper.
Pasta: Make a basic tomato pasta sauce creamier by stirring in a big spoon of cottage cheese five minutes from the end of cooking.
Straight out of the pot: Sometimes I’m so ravenous after fitness sessions I scour the fridge for a quick snack. I position the cottage cheese pot in my eye line, so I grab it without thinking and attack it with a spoon. This is how I taught myself to like it, eating it when I was really hungry, so I appreciate how satisfying it is.
Herb it up: Quite often when I have half a pot left, I toss in a random selection of mixed herbs and flavoured ground peppercorns and return it to the fridge for a day to infuse the flavour. Enjoy on oatcakes or with salad.
’Peach melba’ oatcakes: Chop up a drained sliced peach from a tin. Onto a plain oatcake, load a dollop of cottage cheese topped with peach slice. A scoffable post-exercise treat, quick to assemble.
With Fruit for breakfast: Following the fruit theme, try granola and fruit with a dollop of cottage cheese on top. You can get creamier cheeses (with less lumpy curd) that work well for this. An alternative to creme fraiche perhaps?
