This cottage cheese Alfredo is so creamy and filled with 15g of protein per serving all due to the blended cottage cheese Alfredo sauce!
Cottage cheese is a high-protein, miracle cheese that we simply can’t get sufficient of. You gained’t imagine how simple it’s to mix up the Alfredo sauce with just some substances of cottage cheese, sauteed garlic and onion, and a splash of heavy cream.
Obsessive about cottage cheese recipes? These cottage cheese pancakes, protein mac and cheese, cookies and cream cottage cheese bark, and cottage cheese ice cream are tasty recipes which can be excessive in protein.
What You Have to Make Cottage Cheese Alfredo
- Cottage cheese: we advocate utilizing 2% or complete milk cottage cheese. Nonfat cottage cheese will work, however the water content material can be greater.
- Heavy cream: a bit little bit of heavy cream is used to each skinny out and to thicken the cottage cheese Alfredo sauce.
- Pasta water: don’t overlook to put aside some pasta water so as to add to the pasta sauce. It’s used to thicken the pasta sauce and to encourage the sauce to bind to the pasta.
- Grated parmesan: each Alfredo dish wants a bit little bit of parmesan.
- Fettucini: any lengthy noodle will work for this recipe.
- Excessive-speed blender: a Vitamix or the Beast are our two favourite blenders. Simply ensure you’ve got a high-powered blender that may simply cream the substances collectively.
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Beast Blender
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Ideas + Variations
When making the cottage cheese Alfredo sauce, ensure you mix the substances lengthy sufficient (2-3 minutes) to make sure all of the substances are homogenous. That is essential in order that when the sauce is warmed up it doesn’t not separate.
We stored this dish fundamental with simply pasta and sauce. Should you’d like so as to add greens, steamed broccoli is a good addition. Spice issues up with crimson pepper flakes, too!
FAQ
What kind of cottage cheese ought to I take advantage of?
We extremely advocate utilizing 2% or complete milk cottage cheese for this recipe.
Can I take advantage of gluten-free pasta?
Sure, any kind of previous will work for this recipe.
What if my sauce is simply too thick or too skinny?
If the pasta sauce is simply too skinny, simmer the sauce over low warmth till it’s decreased. Take away from warmth till it thickens. Then, toss with the pasta.
If the sauce is simply too thick, add 1-2 tablespoons of further pasta water to skinny out the sauce.
Storage Ideas
In case you are storing leftovers the place the pasta and the sauce are already combined collectively, let the pasta cool utterly and retailer it in an air-tight container for as much as 5 days.
To reheat the pasta, add just a few tablespoons of water or heavy cream to a saucepan and the leftovers. Toss to mix. Warmth over medium/low warmth till easy and heat.
In case you are making this dish forward of time, we advocate storing the sauce individually from the pasta till able to serve.
What to Serve with Cottage Cheese Alfredo
Since this cottage cheese Alfredo is a creamy and substantial pasta dish, we advocate serving it alongside a crunchy salad or including protein to the highest.
If you wish to add an animal protein to this pasta add this scrumptious crunchy pan-fried rooster or sauteed shrimp.
This apple burrata salad, rooster Caesar salad, or an simple cucumber salad are nice salad choices!
Pictures: images taken on this submit are by Erin from The Picket Skillet.
