Call for recipes

[neadods]

I turn to LJ, the Fount of all Knowledge, and the foodies on the flist:

I have a largish amount of cottage cheese and ricotta cheese to use up. What recipes do you recommend?

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[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

Lazy lasagne -- mix the cheeses with cooked wide egg noodles, layer with a tomato-sauce-and-browned-meat mixture, bake, and enjoy!

Alternatively, I have a decent spinach pie recipe, which I can look up if you're interested.

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

I was going to recommend lasagna as well. Not knowing well any of your dietary restrictions I can't offer a recipe... (though, if you google 'lasagna recipe' I'm sure teh intarwebz will provide several thousand).

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I eat everything except spicy foods.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Do tell the spinach pie!

[beledibabe.livejournal.com]

Here ya go:

Spinach-Ricotta Pie

10 oz. frozen chopped spinach (or enough fresh to make equivalent amount when cooked)
16 oz. ricotta and/or cottage cheese
4 eggs
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
3 tbsp. flour
3/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/8 tsp. salt

Cook and drain spinach. Mix ricotta/cottage cheese and eggs, and add Parmesan, flour, nutmeg, s&p. Mix well. Add spinach. Pour into buttered 9" cake/pie/quiche pan. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

Easy!

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

I'd just eat the cottage cheese. Top it with wheat germ. Yummy!

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Lasagna is certainly a good option. Alternatively, noodle kugel (with the ricotta) sounds yummy.

Now I need to go out to the supermarket for cheese. :-)

[kefiraahava.livejournal.com]

Kugel, calzones, stuffed shells of some sort, and spanakopita.

[benbenberi.livejournal.com]

If you have apples too, you can make an apple custardy thing (which probably has a proper name that I have forgotten) -- Beat up the cottage cheese and ricotta with some eggs & a little sugar, put them in a pan, layer apple slices on top, and bake (350* or thereabouts) till done. Eat warm or cold.

Or baked ziti - mix up the cheese with a whole bunch of tomato sauce and ziti, spice to taste, dump it into a casserole, put some mozzarella on top if you want, and bake.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

OOo, I have apples and that sounds lovely.

[benbenberi.livejournal.com]

Another option (if your arteries are healthy): Cottage Cheese Pancakes

1 c (8 oz) cottage cheese
5 eggs, beaten
1/2 c flour
16 Tbsp (1/2 lb) butter, melted & cooled
1 tsp vanilla
pinch salt

Rub cottage cheese through sieve into a large bowl. Beating constantly, add eggs slowly. Add flour by small amounts. Stir in salt, vanilla and 1/2 of the butter. Heat griddle. Grease with some of remaining butter. Pour batter by tablespoonsful onto griddle. Cook about 2 min. on each side, till golden and crisp around the edges. Serve at once with jam or jelly.
Makes 3-dozen 2" pancakes

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Oooo, yum!

[ferragus.livejournal.com]

Fast Pizza!
grab any flat bread, any not hateful red sauce and layer on the cheese!

Local gourmet pizza place does a Gluten Free version of this with Peperoni too, very Yum!

[benbenberi.livejournal.com]

Or white pizza - cook up some spinach or broccoli with olive oil and garlic, slather your ricotta thickly on a pizza crust, add the veggies, drizzle on some olive oil, and bake in a hot oven till the crust is done. Mmmm.

[kmarier.livejournal.com]

One of my dad's favroite snacks is simply cottage cheese sprinkled with curry powder. You can also blitz cottage cheese in a blender until it is creamy with a bit of pesto or roasted red peppers until you have a creamy dip for veggies or a great sandwich spread. You could probably do the same with ricotta, I've just never tried it.

I also think you could use either one in a homemade creamy sauce for paste with a little bit of experimentation.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I originally bought this for pasta sauce, but I like my cheese sauce better.

[raqs.livejournal.com]

cottage cheese i just eat.

ricotta i blop into quiches, on white pizza, or of course lasagna. not sure i have anything very creative for you there...

[museclio]

Ricotta, mixed with basil and stuffed in a portabella mushroom

[arjuna-lj.livejournal.com]

Make the cottage cheese into balls, stuffed with a mix of chopped nuts, dates, sultanas, & coriander, with a touch of cayenne and/or garam masala; fry lightly, then saute a couple of minutes in your favourite coconut-milk based curry sauce with sliced onion (if you've made your own cottage cheese, simmer in leftover whey instead).

Serve with rice & selection steamed green veg :)