Cottage Cheese

shandyclover

Wow, I had no idea you could do so much with cottage cheese! I'm definitely going to try and do all of the above. It's actually very posh cottage cheese, organic made from jersey cream. I have 2 veggie daughters so a good source of protein for them. All 4 girls have smoothies for breakfast, love lasangne, cheese cake and quiche and I had recently spotted spanakopita in a recipe book and wanted to try and make it. My mum used to come over and make cottage cheese pancakes for me when I was very sick in early stages of pregnancy - and I would eat them topped with lettuce and marmite! Thank you all so much for taking the time to share your ideas.

v8monkeyboy

Hi all

I've searched and searched and searched, but I can't seem to find any recipes for baked cottage cheese.

I'm looking for something that you could slice maybe? and both sweet and savoury recipes. We're trying a high-protein, low carb diet at the moment, and I can only seem to find recipes which use a pie crust, which is not really what I'm after.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

T xx

Diflower

Quiche without the crust, either one big one or individual ones in muffin cases. Works best with silicone 'tins' but any will do.
Use any quiche recipe and either add the cottage cheese (maybe sieved or blended) or substitute for some of the cream/milk.

shebangs

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plumtreebabe

Cottage cheese can be used as a substitute in any of the indian recipes that call for paneer, so there are some great spicy recipes out there, things like spinach and paneer would probably suit your diet?

raspberry_collins

Hi,

I've made German cheesecake before which used quark, but most of the recipes say you can use cottage cheese. I don't have a specific recipe, but a quick google of "German cheesecake recipe cottage cheese" throws up plenty of ideas. The one I made was was lemony and not overly sweet. It did have a pastry base though, so you might need to think of a way around that ...

Mayflower10cat

As Plumtreebabe says, you can use cottage cheese instead of paneer. To make it more solid, take some muslin (or an old thin teatowel) stick the cottage cheese inside and tie up to drain off the liquid. Squeeze the last remnants of moisture out and wrap the resulting pudding shaped block in clingfilm and refrigerate. Chill until firm. Now, you can slice the cheese and semi-dry fry it until a little golden. These delicious chunky slices can be added to many savoury dishes, Indian, Chinese, Mexican, whatever you prefer. The slices can be coated in a spice mix before frying or even chunked up and mixed with toasted cashews, onions, garlic, seeds, lentils and beaten egg to make a simple roast. Or served with a fried egg as breakfast. Or in a spicy tomato sauce.

hotcookie101

I want to make this recipe which calls for fat free cottage cheese. My memories of cottage cheese are NOT good (do we have a vomit smilie?;) ). Please reassure me that it would work ok, or tell me I can sub it for low fat philly, ricotta or quark?

Thanks

Penelope_Penguin

hotcookie101 wrote: »

I want to make this recipe which calls for fat free cottage cheese.

Cottage cheese is always low fat, if that's what you're concerned about

I suspect you could substitute any other cheese of your choosing.

meritaten

hmmmm - you could try substituting natural yoghurt, which you have left to strain in a sieve lined with kitchen paper (or Jcloth). once its firm its a good substitute for cottage or cream cheese.
If you really hate cottage cheese - I would try that or just substitute Philly, but that may be a little firm and you may need to add some extra liquid to get the right consistency. Depends on the recipe I suppose.