This cottage cheese Alfredo is so creamy and full of 15g of protein per serving all because of the blended cottage cheese Alfredo sauce!
Cottage cheese is a high-protein, miracle cheese that we simply can’t get sufficient of. You received’t imagine how straightforward it’s to mix up the Alfredo sauce with just some components 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 suggest utilizing 2% or complete milk cottage cheese. Nonfat cottage cheese will work, however the water content material shall be greater.
- 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 have got a high-powered blender that can simply cream the components collectively.
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Suggestions + Variations
When making the cottage cheese Alfredo sauce, ensure you mix the components lengthy sufficient (2-3 minutes) to make sure all of the components are homogenous. That is necessary in order that when the sauce is warmed up it doesn’t not separate.
We saved this dish primary with simply pasta and sauce. In case you’d like so as to add greens, steamed broccoli is a superb addition. Spice issues up with pink pepper flakes, too!
FAQ
What kind of cottage cheese ought to I take advantage of?
We extremely suggest 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 extra 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 fully and retailer it in an air-tight container for as much as 5 days.
To reheat the pasta, add a couple of 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 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 straightforward cucumber salad are nice salad choices!
Images: pictures taken on this submit are by Erin from The Wood Skillet.
