Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese has quietly become one of the busiest ingredients in this kitchen. Breakfast is the obvious place to start, with fluffy cottage cheese pancakes, waffles, 3-ingredient bagels, and muffins in a dozen flavors. The egg casserole is the make-ahead one for school mornings.

Blended, it turns into sauce, which is where this category gets useful at dinner. Cottage cheese alfredo sauce takes 10 minutes with no cream or flour, the crockpot mac and cheese feeds a crowd, and the tomato version goes on anything. For the full picture, 21 Wholesome Cottage Cheese Recipes is the main hub.