Cottage Cheese Pasta

Cottage Cheese Pasta is a pasta recipe ready in 20 min. It makes 2 servings, each 610 kcal with 28 g protein. Beginner level, 12 ingredients.

Adapted from a home cook's recipe and measured by Cookpath.

  • 20 mintotal
  • Beginnerlevel
  • 610kcal a serving
  • 28 gprotein
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Cottage Cheese Pasta

What is Cottage Cheese Pasta

Pasta in a tomato sauce of onion, garlic, tomato paste, chilli and basil, mixed with cottage cheese and finished with parmesan.

How to make Cottage Cheese Pasta

Tips from the cook

  • Keep the sauce from boiling once the cottage cheese is in, or it turns grainy.
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Cottage Cheese Pasta substitutions

Out of something, or cooking around an allergy. Each swap was checked against a source.

Pasta1 option
  • Gluten-free pasta (corn/rice or corn-rice blend) 1:1 by weight; cook per packet, slightly al dente

    Soups (goes soft fast) and long simmers.

Onion2 options
  • Leek, white and light-green part 1:1 by volume

    Still an allium; raw dishes.

  • Fennel bulb, finely diced 1:1 by volume

    Sweet aniseed note; raw dishes.

Chilli flakes2 options
  • Leave out (optional heat, 1/4 tsp) leave out (optional heat only)
  • Sweet paprika for colour same amount

    No heat.

Cottage cheese1 option
  • Homemade vegan cottage cheese: crumbled firm tofu mixed with plant yogurt, lemon juice and salt 1:1 by weight

    No real curds when baked; use the plant yogurt unsweetened.

    Still contains soy.

Parmesan2 options
  • Vegetarian hard Italian-style cheese (made with microbial rennet) 1:1 by weight

    Grana Padano is not suitable for egg-free (lysozyme from egg).

    Still contains dairy.

  • Nutritional yeast (fortified flakes) 1:1 by volume, less salty so add pinch of salt

    Does not melt; less sharp.

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