I Tested TikTok Cottage Cheese Recipes for 2 Weeks, These Are the Ones That Are Worth Trying
Snacks, dinners, and even desserts were infused with cottage cheese.
Spend any time on social media in the last month, and no matter what your For You Page normally looks like, you probably stumbled onto a plethora of cottage cheese recipes. It was the great equalizer — revered by intuitive eating dietitians, protein-conscious muscle-builders, and weight loss accounts alike. If the idea of cottage cheese as a trend sent some of you into a cold sweat with flashbacks of growing up in the 80s and 90’s when it was the crash diet food, you’re not alone. (Does anyone else remember that episode of MTV True Life where the beauty queen ate nothing but bowls of plain cottage cheese, even at restaurants? *shudders*.) Hear me out: This iteration is a far less toxic one. In fact, the recipes looked, dare I hope, delicious.
After looking through my saved videos and realizing a large majority of the recipes relied on the containers of curds, I was intrigued. What if I spent two weeks trying as many recipes as I could and reporting back? An honest account of what recipes were actually tasty, worth making, and didn’t make me feel deprived or like I was on a slippery slope to a 1,200-calorie diet. Here’s a look inside my cottage cheese journey.
Breakfast
Before we get too far into this story, I have a confession: I like cottage cheese. I grew up eating it on salads and one of my childhood favorite snacks (and current, tbh) is cottage cheese and a drizzle of Western dressing. So while my taste buds may be different from yours, I tried my best to be objective about whether or not I liked a recipe because I like cottage cheese or if it was a good one and I couldn’t taste the ingredient.
The first attempt in this category was eggs. Stirring cottage cheese in my scrambled eggs is an easy way to increase the protein (about 12 grams per half cup) and has a similar texture and taste to adding shredded cheese. But ‘similar’ is the keyword there, and if you’re not a cottage cheese…
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