Cottage Cheese Egg Bake (Denver Omelet Style)
Cottage cheese: 2 cups, whisked into the eggs
Denver omelet-style cottage cheese egg bake with ham, peppers, onion and cheddar. One 9×13 pan makes 8 make-ahead breakfast squares.
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Cottage Cheese Recipes
Cottage cheese does a lot of quiet work in these recipes. It's blended into the creamy layer of a casserole, seasoned into a ranch or tzatziki for meal prep bowls, or whisked with eggs for a make-ahead bake. The recipes below are grouped by how you'll cook them, and each card shows how much cottage cheese goes in and how it's used.
Cooking with cottage cheese
- Blend it first. Most of these recipes blend it until smooth, so it becomes a creamy sauce or layer, as in the Caprese chicken bake.
- Use it as a sauce base. Seasoned, it becomes a ranch for the Buffalo chicken bowls or a tzatziki for the Greek chicken bowls.
- Bake it with eggs. Whisked into eggs, it makes a sliceable make-ahead breakfast like the cottage cheese egg bake.
Our newer recipes are written with low-fat (2%) cottage cheese. For more protein-forward ideas beyond cottage cheese, browse all high-protein recipes.
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Breakfast and brunch
Whisked into eggs or baked with fruit, for mornings you can prep ahead.
Baked Blueberry Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowls
Cottage cheese: 1 cup, whisked with an egg and baked
Bake blueberry cottage cheese breakfast bowls with egg, vanilla and honey or maple syrup. Follow five simple steps using 1–2 small ramekins.
Meal prep bowls
Blended into a ranch or tzatziki, stirred into a creamy sauce, or spooned on top.
Chicken Enchilada Cottage Cheese Bowls
Cottage cheese: 1 cup, spooned onto each bowl
Chicken enchilada bowls with saucy shredded chicken, rice, black beans, corn, melted cheese and a scoop of cottage cheese. Four high-protein meal-prep bowls.
Buffalo Chicken Cottage Cheese Bowls
Cottage cheese: 1 cup, blended into a ranch sauce
Buffalo chicken bowls with rice, crunchy celery and carrots, and a creamy cottage cheese ranch. Four meal-prep bowls with about 50 g of protein each.
Greek Chicken Meal Prep Bowls
Cottage cheese: 1 cup, blended into the tzatziki
Greek chicken meal prep bowls with lemon-oregano chicken, rice, cucumber, tomatoes, olives, feta and a cottage cheese tzatziki. Four high-protein bowls.
High-Protein Chicken Fajita Meal Prep Bowls with Cottage Cheese
Cottage cheese: 340 g, stirred into a creamy enchilada sauce
Chicken fajita meal prep bowls with cottage cheese, shredded chicken and red enchilada sauce. Makes 5 servings and bakes for 12–15 minutes.
Creamy casseroles and bakes
Blended smooth with cheese and seasoning, then baked into a creamy layer or sauce.
Caprese Chicken Cottage Cheese Bake
Cottage cheese: 1½ cups, blended with Parmesan and garlic into a creamy layer
Caprese chicken bake with a creamy blended cottage cheese layer, cherry tomatoes, mozzarella and basil. One 9×13 dish, six servings, about 45 minutes.
Spinach Artichoke Chicken Bake
Cottage cheese: 1½ cups, blended with Neufchâtel and Parmesan
Spinach artichoke chicken bake with tender chicken, a creamy cottage cheese and cream cheese sauce, and melted mozzarella. A 9×13 family casserole for six.
Jalapeño Popper Chicken Casserole
Cottage cheese: 1½ cups, blended with Neufchâtel, then mixed with jalapeños
Jalapeño popper chicken casserole with a creamy cottage cheese and cream cheese sauce, fresh jalapeños, cheddar and crispy bacon. One 9×13 dish serves six.
Chicken Broccoli Cottage Cheese Casserole
Cottage cheese: 1½ cups, blended with milk and spices into the sauce
Chicken broccoli casserole with rice and a creamy cottage cheese cheddar sauce, made without canned soup. Uses cooked chicken; one 9×13 dish serves six.
Garlic Parmesan Chicken Zucchini Casserole
Cottage cheese: 1½ cups, blended with an egg and Parmesan, spread over the top
Chicken zucchini casserole with garlic, Parmesan, mozzarella and a creamy cottage cheese layer. Lower-carb, high-protein and baked in one 9×13 dish for six.
Cheeseburger Casserole with Cottage Cheese
Cottage cheese: 1½ cups, blended with milk into the pasta sauce
Cheeseburger casserole with lean ground beef, pasta, a creamy cottage cheese and cheddar sauce, pickles and burger seasonings. Budget-friendly, serves six.
Chicken Taco Cottage Cheese Bake
Cottage cheese: 1¼ cups, blended into the filling
Chicken taco cottage cheese bake with shredded chicken, eggs, peppers and melted cheese. A 9×9-inch family bake that serves five.
