Cottage cheese is one of those foods that people tend to love or hate.
I have been a fan since first discovering its healthy diet food status back in the 1970s.
It is a great source of protein with about 14 grams in a 4 ounce serving.
Favorite WW Friendly Cottage Cheese Recipes
You’ll want to use non-fat cottage cheese if you are following Weight Watchers Simply Filling.
WW has also updated their program to SmartPoints from PointsPlus – click here to learn more about SmartPoints.
Cottage cheese can be enjoyed in so many ways – on its own, with fruit or salad, on toast, as a vintage Weight Watchers “Danish” and in a wide variety of both sweet and savory dishes.
Weight Watchers Cheese Danish
As a lazy cook, I’ve never considered making cottage cheese myself, but if you’re curious here’s a Quick Cottage Cheese Recipe from Alton Brown at the Food Network.
Are you put off my the texture of cottage cheese?
To make it smooth, give it a whirl in a food processor or blender. Then it becomes a healthier alternative to sour cream in your favorite dip recipe or as a tasty topping for baked potatoes.
This smooth whipped cottage cheese is also delicious slathered on a bagel, or pancakes, with jam.
Looking for new ways to eat cottage cheese?
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Here are some ideas…
15+ Favorite Ways to Eat Cottage Cheese
Cottage Cheese with Fresh Berries
Serve it with fruit. One of my favorite ways to eat cottage cheese is with fruit. It’s a match made it heaven.
I love it for both breakfast and lunch during the summer. Just about any fruit will work – fresh, canned in fruit juice, or frozen. Delicious options include:
- Sliced bananas
- Crushed pineapple or pineapple chunks
- Berries – blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or a combination
- Melon chunks or balls
- Fresh or canned peach slices
- Chunks of apple and a sprinkle of cinnamon
- Applesauce or apple butter
- Or get fancy and make this cottage cheese banana split.
Mix it with nut butter. Stir a tablespoon of your favorite nut butter into a half cup of cottage cheese. Use it to stuff celery or spread on whole grain toast or crackers.
Smoothie with Fresh Fruit and Cottage Cheese
Add it to smoothies. Blend it into your favorite fruit smoothie or green smoothie recipe for an extra boost of protein.
WW Friendly Cottage Cheese Pancakes
Add it to pancake batter to make Cottage Cheese Pancakes, which are much higher in protein than regular ones, but taste just as delicious.
Fresh Cottage Cheese
Stir it into pasta. The cottage cheese gets warm and creamy and is especially good with lots of freshly ground pepper.
Or use it instead of ricotta in Lasagna, Baked Pasta with Zucchini and Cottage Cheese or Mom’s Easy Baked Ziti.
Or try this tasty Orzo with Cottage Cheese and Peas recipe:
- 2 cups cottage cheese, at room temperature
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup minced scallions or chives
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
- Black pepper to taste
- ½ pound orzo (rice shaped pasta)
- 1 cup frozen peas
- Grated parmesan cheese
- Cook the orzo in plenty of boiling salted water until tender. While the orzo is cooking, place the peas in a colander in a the sink.
- While the water boils and orzo cooks, In a medium-sized bowl, combine the cottage cheese, salt, scallions, lemon zest, and black pepper. Mix until well combined.
- When the orzo is done, drain into the colander right onto the peas. Shake off the excess water and dump into the bowl with the cottage cheese mixture. Stir gently and sprinkle with grated parmesan. Serve warm or at room temperature.
WW Friendly Baked Potato with Salsa and Cottage Cheese
Serve it On a baked potato with salsa. For an incredible quick, easy and healthy lunch or dinner, one of my favorite ways to eat cottage cheese I learned years ago from Weight Watchers.
WW Cottage Cheese ‘Danish’
Spread it on toast. for a vintage Weigh Watchers “danish.” I love cottage cheese spread on toasted raisin bread, then sprinkled with cinnamon and chopped walnuts. Or make this vintage “WW Danish”.
Sprinkle it with granola and drizzle with honey when a sweet and creamy craving strikes. Or stir in crumbled graham crackers and a shake of pumpkin pie spice.
Cottage Cheese with Fresh Apple Slices
Spread it on thin slices of apple and sprinkle with cinnamon. Perfect for breakfast or a healthy after school snack.
Add a spoonful while you’re making scrambled eggs. It’ll give you the cheesy flavor you crave with an extra dose of protein. Or try this light + healthy spinach and feta crustless quiche.
Use cottage cheese as a substitute for sour cream. First buzz it in a blender or food processor, with the tiniest bit of boiling water to make it make it creamy and then you can use it to make all kinds of skinny dips.
WW Friendly Cottage Cheese with Radishes and Herbs
Season it with your favorite spice blend. Lemon pepper, Mrs. Dash, Old Bay and Herbamare all work well. Spread on vegetables or whole grain crackers of stuff into celery or hollowed out tomatoes.
Stir in some pesto with it. Then enjoy as a dip or spread for vegetables or crackers or stuffed into hollowed out cherry tomatoes.
Mix it with chopped celery and tuna or small canned shrimp instead of mayo. Makes another great dip or spread perfect with toasted whole grain bread, crackers, or vegetables.
*PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT Weight Watchers Zero Points fruits and vegetables using the WW Recipe Builder.
If You Like 15 Ways to Eat Cottage Cheese, You Might Also Like:
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Cottage cheese is so healthy n it is a staple in Indian households . I make it at home n use it in many ways . Though i never tried it with sea food .
When you fry eggs you can put some of it, i found this the best way to eat.
Great idea, Maher Abu Zer! Cottage cheese added to fried scrambled eggs.
I buy Red Delicious apples and red grapes and cut them up into cottage cheese. It’s so addicting
Hi Ashley, I love this idea! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I did this at first I wasn’t sold…but now for a light night time snack I can’t get enouge…grape and cott age cheese is addicting 🙂
Try sprinkling couple tablespoons of cocoa powder and liquid honey on top of ~ 500 grams of cottage cheese and mix it up. I would have never believed something could taste so good without having much carbs and/or fats in it.
Thanks, John. I’ll definitely give it a try.
Cottage cheese and strawberries are the best, it tastes good and a great alternative for casien protien.?
As berries are better fresh, most of the time I cut up a juicy pear on my cottage cheese. It’s delicious.