I could eat cottage cheese all day every day! I prefer mine sweet, and I do some wacky things with it... some of my favorites;
Cottage cheese + sugar-free fat-free jello pudding mix (any flavor) + toppings. (For example, today I mixed cottage cheese with vanilla pudding mix and topped it with fresh raspberries. If you mix it up the night prior and let it sit in the fridge the texture is amazing! I'll also pop it in the freezer for about 90 minutes and eat it like ice cream. I add nut butters, fruit, mini marshmallows, crushed dark chocolate, etc. to it.)
Cottage cheese + cinnamon + Truvia + handful of crunchy cereal (I usually use Ezikel or Fiber One cereals) + slivered almonds
Cottage cheese + pinapple, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, chopped apple (or whatever fruit you like!)
I like it straight up with Truvia and cinnamon or with salt and pepper on occasion, but most of the time I use it as a base for a sweet treat.
Another neat thing I have been doing is using a sprinkle of those new Duncan Heinz Frosting Creations packets to change my cottage cheese into amazing new flavors (Chocolate Almond, Caramel, Mocha, etc.) for literally 2-3 calories. Those are awesome!
(And on a side note, I have used those Frosting Creations in oatmeal and mixed into plain Greek yogurt, or even sprinkled on popcorn!)
With the Frosting Creations mixes, just the TINIEST sprinkle will do... Seriously. Those are meant to flavor an entire HUGE can of super thick frosting mix, so for little things like cottage cheese, yogurt, and other recipes you can easily get 5-10 servings out of one packet.
With the Jello pudding mixes, I use 8g (which is one serving, or 1/4 of the package) and I add in water to thin it out and give it that pudding-like consistency... about 1/2 cup (which follows the package directions) but I eyeball it. Oddly the chocolate seems to get too runny, so it needs less water than other flavors.
Just now I had 170g Cottage Cheese, 8g butterscotch Jello pudding mix (with about 1/2 cup water), a sprinkle of cinnamon, 1 packet of Truvia, and then once that was all stirred up I added in 10g of mini marshmallows, 10g of chunky peanut butter and put it in the freezer for about 90 minutes. AWESOMENESS.
Love cottage cheese! So many great ideas from everyone!
I put 1%, low-fat cottage cheese on top of frozen whole-wheat waffles rather than syrup. I'll top that with fresh or frozen fruit or sugarless applesauce. Very filling and delicious.
Cottage cheese + Herdez Salsa Casera. Eat with spoon. Best stuff ever.
Also, it makes a great binder in tuna salad. As so:
Tuna Salad
1 can tuna fish
1/3 cup of cottage cheese
2 tblsp of mayonnaise
finely chopped red onion (1/4 to 1/2 onions?)
finely chopped celery (1-2 stalks)
about a tablespoon of capers
Lemon juice (1/2 lemon?)
A pinch or two of dill. More if fresh.
chopped fresh parsley
1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard
I like the salsa idea... seems like a good way to make a little snack of chips and salsa more filling... just a few chips (baked even) and the cottage cheese/salsa mixture would be a decent little nosh!
I just had 100g of chopped fuji apple mixed in with 170g of cottage cheese, 10g chunky peanut butter, and then sweetened up with Truvia and cinnamon. Nom nom nom.
Wow, sooooo many ideas!!! I think I've already posted this once before but I'll post it again-
Bleu cheese crumbles mixed in with some cottage cheese makes a great dip for veggies. If you prefer ranch, you can use some hidden valley powder (for dips or salad dressing) OR homemade with chives, a bit vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, pepper and salt.
I love that stuff for salad "dressing" and it's protein packed to boot, too! I also sub cottage cheese for ricotta whenever making lasagna or whatever recipe asks for it because I always have it on hand, not ricotta.
Bleu cheese crumbles mixed in with some cottage cheese makes a great dip for veggies. If you prefer ranch, you can use some hidden valley powder (for dips or salad dressing) OR homemade with chives, a bit vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, pepper and salt.
Anyone else tried the "KROGER" grocery store brand of cottage cheese--I think it is JUST wonderful compared to the others I tried first--it REALLY is GOOD!!! I NEVER thought I would ever REALLY like cottage cheese EVER--I thought it was just dairy STYROFOAM that was an EXCELLENT source of protien--till I had the Kroger brand Low-fat stuff!
I LOVE to eat 1/2 a cup of cottage on a small plate with one of those "LAUGHING COW" foiled-wrapped cheeses...the small 35 cal. wedges that have 1.5 fat--a couple bites of cottage cheese--then a bite of the Laughing cow cheese--GREAT snack--I LOVE it!!!
