Our cottage cheese salad is the ideal summer recipe. It tastes wonderfully fresh and light and can be prepared in just 10 minutes while the kitchen can remain cold. And although it contains few calories, the protein-rich grainy cream cheese keeps you full for a long time, which makes the cottage cheese salad a good summer main course.
Do you often find that you don’t feel like cooking on warm summer days? It’s hot and you have to turn on the stove or oven? This cottage cheese salad recipe is just right for you, because the kitchen stays cold. Fresh, crunchy vegetables are chopped, mixed with grainy cream cheese, seasoned finely and served cold. This way the salad with grainy cream cheese not only tastes delicious, but also light and refreshing. Served with some fresh baguette, the cottage cheese salad is the perfect summer recipe. Our beetroot salad with feta is also very tasty.
The ingredients for our cottage cheese salad
- cottage cheese: We love the ingredient that gives it its name! Cottage cheese is low in calories, contains little fat and carbohydrates, and lots of protein, which makes it very filling. You can find all of our cottage cheese recipes here.
- Cucumber, peppers and tomatoes go well with each other and with the cottage cheese. All three vegetables are juicy, crunchy and refreshing and provide many healthy ingredients. Good alternatives are corn, carrots or fresh spinach leaves.
- The Onion adds a spicy, slightly hot note to our salad with grainy cottage cheese. If you don’t like raw onions, you can use radishes or spring onion greens instead.
- The dressing is simply mixed with olive oil, lime juice, salt and pepper. Linseed oil or lemon juice are also very good alternatives to olive oil and lime.
5 reasons why you should definitely try our cottage cheese salad
Our cottage cheese salad recipe is a real insider tip! It is quick and easy to prepare, is full of healthy ingredients and is a light and refreshing meal, especially in summer. And most importantly: the cottage cheese salad tastes really delicious!
- Quick and easy This recipe is exactly right. Cut the vegetables, season, mix everything together and after just 10 minutes the summer salad is on the table. Absolutely suitable for cooking beginners or when you need something quick.
- Healthy: Our cottage cheese salad with fresh vegetables is full of good ingredients: The cottage cheese is rich in protein and the fresh vegetables provide lots of vitamins, minerals and fiber. At the same time, the salad contains little fat and carbohydrates. So it is filling and light at the same time – just like our low-carb cottage cheese slices.
- Light summer dish: Cottage cheese salad is the perfect recipe for hot summer days. Only 10 minutes of effort, no cooking or baking, low in calories, cool, light and refreshing.
- Prepare well: The salad with grainy cream cheese can easily be kept in the fridge for 2-3 days. This means you can prepare it well in advance, prepare it for several days at a time or take it to the office the next day as meal prep.
- Versatile: The recipe can easily be adapted to your own taste. Add turkey strips or tuna to a main meal. Or top the salad with toasted nuts or pine nuts. Whatever tastes good is allowed. Try our cottage cheese bowl with avocado and shrimp.
Our cottage cheese salad tastes wonderfully delicious, light and refreshing and is prepared in just 10 minutes. And although it contains only a few calories, the protein-rich grainy cream cheese keeps you full for a long time.
Suitable recipe recommendations
450G
Information for 2 Portions
- Wash the cherry tomatoes, cucumber and peppers. Halve the tomatoes, cut the cucumbers into slices and then into cubes. Halve the peppers, remove the seeds and cut into strips and then into cubes. Peel the onion and cut into very fine cubes. Remove the long, hard stalks from the parsley and finely chop the leaves.
200 g cherry tomatoes, 250 g cucumber, 1 yellow pepper, 1 small red onion, ½ bunch of fresh parsley
- Place the cottage cheese in a large bowl. Add the vegetables and parsley.
200 g cottage cheese
- Add the freshly squeezed juice of a lime and the olive oil and mix well. Season with salt and pepper.
1 lime, 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, Salt, pepper
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- An avocado also goes very well in the salad and provides additional healthy fats.
- The recipe quantity is suitable for 2 people as a main course or for 4 people as a side dish. For a main course, the recipe can easily be supplemented with turkey strips or tuna.
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