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 only a few 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 Must Make Cottage Cheese Alfredo
- Cottage cheese: we suggest utilizing 2% or entire milk cottage cheese. Nonfat cottage cheese will work, however the water content material can be increased.
- Heavy cream: slightly little bit of heavy cream is used to each skinny out and to thicken the cottage cheese Alfredo sauce.
- Pasta water: don’t neglect 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 slightly 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 gotten a high-powered blender that can simply cream the substances collectively.
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Beast Blender
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Suggestions + 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 vital in order that when the sauce is warmed up it doesn’t not separate.
We saved this dish fundamental with simply pasta and sauce. For those who’d like so as to add greens, steamed broccoli is a superb addition. Spice issues up with purple pepper flakes, too!
FAQ
What kind of cottage cheese ought to I exploit?
We extremely suggest utilizing 2% or entire milk cottage cheese for this recipe.
Can I exploit 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 diminished. Take away from warmth till it thickens. Then, toss with the pasta.
If the sauce is simply too thick, add 1-2 tablespoons of extra pasta water to skinny out the sauce.
Storage Strategies
If you’re 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 a number of tablespoons of water or heavy cream to a saucepan and the leftovers. Toss to mix. Warmth over medium/low warmth till clean and heat.
If you’re making this dish forward of time, we suggest 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 suggest 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 hen or sauteed shrimp.
This apple burrata salad, hen Caesar salad, or an simple cucumber salad are nice salad choices!
Images: images taken on this put up are by Erin from The Wood Skillet.
