**Easy High Protein Cottage Cheese Mac and Cheese**
Ingredients:
10 Ounces Pasta
Bone Broth - *Optionally use Bone Broth to make your Pasta (adds flavor/protein)
1 Cup Cottage Cheese - Fat Free, Reduced Fat, or Full Fat
5 Ounces Cheddar Cheese - Fat Free, Reduced Fat, or Full Fat
1 Cup Milk - or Milk Substitute (Fat Free, Reduced Fat, or Full Fat)
1 1/2 Tablespoons Corn Starch
1/2 Teaspoon Garlic Powder
1/4 Teaspoon Ground Mustard
1/2 Teaspoon Paprika - Smoked Preferred
1/4 Teaspoon Onion Salt
1/4 Teaspoon Black Pepper
12 Ounces Protein - *Cooked (Chicken, Beef, Turkey, Tuna, etc)
Directions:
This delicious, creamy, and high protein **Easy Cottage Cheese Mac and Cheese** meal prep recipe is super easy to make!
Start this one by taking out a stove top pan and making 10 ounces of pasta
A quick tip here- Make your pasta *taste even better* and **add more protein** to it by using some low sodium bone broth instead of water!
While that’s cooking take out a blender **or** food processor. Add into it 1 cup of cottage cheese, 5 ounces of cheddar cheese, 1 cup of milk, and 1 1/2 tablespoons of corn starch. This is your **base** and everything else I’m using is *optional*.
My *optional* but **preferred ingredients** for the ultimate flavor? That would be 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder, 1/4 teaspoon of ground mustard, 1/2 teaspoon of **smoked** paprika, 1/4 teaspoon of onion salt, and 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper.
Blend or process all of those together **until smooth**. Pour that mix into a large saucepan and turn your burner on **low heat**. Make sure the pan you’re using is large enough to also hold your cooked pasta in it!
Let that mix cook for a **couple minutes** or until it starts to thicken up, try to keep it moving as it heats up.
Once it thickens up mix in your pasta and continue by adding in *anything else you want*.
Without anything else added in, the macros are still pretty good (see below). You can make them even better by using a **higher** protein pasta like one made with chickpeas, lentils, etc.
Nutritional profile:
Calories in the whole recipe with Fat Free Milk/Cottage Cheese and Chicken:
Calories: 2220
Fat: 60g
Saturated Fat: 30g
Sodium: 3200mg
Carbs: 216g
Fiber: 25g
Sugar: 29g
Protein: 204g
Calories in Each Serving (Makes 6) with Fat Free Milk/Cottage Cheese and Chicken:
Calories: 370
Fat: 10g
Saturated Fat: 5g
Sodium: 533.3mg
Carbs: 36g
Fiber: 4.1g
Sugar: 5g
Protein: 34g
Calories in Each Serving (Makes 6) with Fat Free Milk/Cottage Cheese and without Chicken:
Calories: 307
Fat: 8.3g
Saturated Fat: 4.6g
Sodium: 433.3mg
Carbs: 36g
Fiber: 4.1g
Sugar: 4.8g
Protein: 22.3g
Ingredients:
10 Ounces Pasta
Bone Broth - *Optionally use Bone Broth to make your Pasta (adds flavor/protein)
1 Cup Cottage Cheese - Fat Free, Reduced Fat, or Full Fat
5 Ounces Cheddar Cheese - Fat Free, Reduced Fat, or Full Fat
1 Cup Milk - or Milk Substitute (Fat Free, Reduced Fat, or Full Fat)
1 1/2 Tablespoons Corn Starch
1/2 Teaspoon Garlic Powder
1/4 Teaspoon Ground Mustard
1/2 Teaspoon Paprika - Smoked Preferred
1/4 Teaspoon Onion Salt
1/4 Teaspoon Black Pepper
12 Ounces Protein - *Cooked (Chicken, Beef, Turkey, Tuna, etc)
Directions:
This delicious, creamy, and high protein **Easy Cottage Cheese Mac and Cheese** meal prep recipe is super easy to make!
Start this one by taking out a stove top pan and making 10 ounces of pasta
A quick tip here- Make your pasta *taste even better* and **add more protein** to it by using some low sodium bone broth instead of water!
While that’s cooking take out a blender **or** food processor. Add into it 1 cup of cottage cheese, 5 ounces of cheddar cheese, 1 cup of milk, and 1 1/2 tablespoons of corn starch. This is your **base** and everything else I’m using is *optional*.
My *optional* but **preferred ingredients** for the ultimate flavor? That would be 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder, 1/4 teaspoon of ground mustard, 1/2 teaspoon of **smoked** paprika, 1/4 teaspoon of onion salt, and 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper.
Blend or process all of those together **until smooth**. Pour that mix into a large saucepan and turn your burner on **low heat**. Make sure the pan you’re using is large enough to also hold your cooked pasta in it!
Let that mix cook for a **couple minutes** or until it starts to thicken up, try to keep it moving as it heats up.
Once it thickens up mix in your pasta and continue by adding in *anything else you want*.
Without anything else added in, the macros are still pretty good (see below). You can make them even better by using a **higher** protein pasta like one made with chickpeas, lentils, etc.
Nutritional profile:
Calories in the whole recipe with Fat Free Milk/Cottage Cheese and Chicken:
Calories: 2220
Fat: 60g
Saturated Fat: 30g
Sodium: 3200mg
Carbs: 216g
Fiber: 25g
Sugar: 29g
Protein: 204g
Calories in Each Serving (Makes 6) with Fat Free Milk/Cottage Cheese and Chicken:
Calories: 370
Fat: 10g
Saturated Fat: 5g
Sodium: 533.3mg
Carbs: 36g
Fiber: 4.1g
Sugar: 5g
Protein: 34g
Calories in Each Serving (Makes 6) with Fat Free Milk/Cottage Cheese and without Chicken:
Calories: 307
Fat: 8.3g
Saturated Fat: 4.6g
Sodium: 433.3mg
Carbs: 36g
Fiber: 4.1g
Sugar: 4.8g
Protein: 22.3g
