Enjoy this cottage cheese and apple bowl as a high protein breakfast or snack! We top with sweet fruit, seeds for crunch and a drizzle of maple syrup for sweetness. Ready in 10 minutes or less!
Have a peek at my savory cottage cheese bowl for another quick meal!
Love an easy high protein breakfast or snack? Much like my cottage cheese toasts, this is such a simple recipe with no cook time and no need for fancy kitchen equipment.
We pair easy to find ingredients to make this cottage cheese and apple recipe, and ones you may already have to hand. It's creamy, sweet and has a nice pinch of spice. Enjoy as a sweet cottage cheese breakfast bowl or even as a fruit dip!
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🍎 Ingredients
All the ingredients and their quantities are set out in the recipe card below.
Some notes on a few of them:
- Cottage cheese - I tend to use full-fat cottage cheese as it has a creamier taste, but you can use the type you prefer. If you like a smoother texture, you can whip cottage cheese in the blender before use.
- Apple - I suggest to use a red apple such as Honey Crisp for a sweet taste, or green apple for a more tart flavor.
- Cardamon - to add a little spice. Cinnamon can also be used, if you tolerate it well.
📖 Swaps and Variations
Add more fruit! For a cottage cheese and fruit bowl you can of course add berries, pear, mango or pomegranate, depending on what works for you!
Top with some granola or fruit sauce. A handful of my chia seed granola would give a nice crunch, and my apple blueberry sauce is so easy to make.
🔪 How to Make Cottage Cheese and Apple Bowls
It's so easy to make these sweet cottage cheese bowls with the cheese, apples and seeds. No cook time, and they come together in about 10 minutes.
All the instructions are in the recipe card below, but these step by step photos should help guide you.
Step 1: Mix cottage cheese and apple
De-core the apple and grate half. Spoon into your serving bowl with the cottage cheese and stir to combine. Sprinkle in the cardamom and stir again (image 1).
Step 2: Add your toppings!
Dice the other half of the apple and add to your cottage cheese bowl with other fruits (if you like), plus the hemp and pumpkin seeds. Drizzle with maple syrup (image 2).
💭 Recipe Tips and Notes
- Grate and dice the apple just before serving as it can brown quickly.
- Make this a mixed cottage cheese and fruit bowl by adding other berries or fruits!
- I tend to use cardamom as I love the flavor, but cinnamon can also be used. Just note that it is a debated spice if you're a low histamine reader.
📋 Frequently Asked Questions
Full fat cottage cheese has a more creamy flavor, while low fat cottage cheese tends to have more of a tang.
Cottage cheese is on the allowed section of the SIGHI elimination diet for histamine intolerance list, but does not appear on the SIGHI list for mast cell disorders. It is best to work with a dietician to understand personal food intolerances.
🧀 More Cottage Cheese Recipes
My cottage cheese smoothie is always popular and do check out these other cottage cheese recipes:
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📖 Recipe
Cottage Cheese and Apple Bowls
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1 large red apple de-cored, half grated, half diced
- ¼ teaspoon cardamom or cinnamon*
- 1 teaspoon shelled hemp seeds
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin seeds
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup
Instructions
- Spoon the cottage cheese into your bowl.
- De-core the apple, and grate half on a box grater (on the large blade) and dice the other half into small pieces.
- Stir the grated apple into the cottage cheese. Sprinkle with the cardamom (or cinnamon) and stir again.
- Top the cottage cheese and apple bowl with the diced apple, any other fruit you enjoy, shelled hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds and a drizzle of maple syrup.
Notes
- If you prefer a smoother texture, you can blend the cottage cheese so that it is whipped before adding the apple and toppings.
- Full fat cottage cheese has a creamier flavor, while low fat cottage cheese tends to have a bit of a tang.
- Nutritional information is auto-generated and should be understood to be an estimate.
- cottage cheese is on the 'well tolerated' section of the SIGHI elimination diet for histamine intolerance, but is not mentioned on the list for mast cell disorders. Only try if known to tolerate well.
- cardamom scores 0, but there are notes in French to use sparingly, and that as there are many varieties, not all may be well tolerated.
- cinnamon, which scores 0 but is rated as higher histamine on other lists.
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