Description
This Cottage Cheese Toast recipe offers a deliciously versatile snack or light meal with sweet and savory topping options. Featuring creamy cottage cheese on toasted sourdough bread, it’s topped with fresh avocado, tomatoes, smoked salmon, or sweet combinations like peanut butter and berries. Ready in just 6 minutes, it’s perfect for a nutritious breakfast, snack, or light lunch.
Ingredients
Base
- 1 slice sourdough bread (or crusty bread of choice)
- 1 Tablespoon unsalted butter (melted)
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese (whole milk, 2%, or fat free)
Savory Toppings
- 1/2 avocado (peeled and thinly sliced)
- 1/4 cup sliced cherry tomatoes
- 1-2 Tablespoons hot honey (e.g., Mike’s hot honey, or use chili crunch)
- 1 hard boiled egg (sliced or grated)
- 1 Tablespoon everything bagel seasoning
- Chili crunch or hot honey, to taste
- 1-2 ounces smoked salmon
- Red onion (thinly sliced, or pickled red onion to taste)
- 1 Tablespoon capers
- Fresh dill, to taste
Sweet Toppings
- 1-2 Tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 banana (sliced)
- Honey and cinnamon, to taste
- 1 Tablespoon strawberry jam
- 2-3 fresh strawberries (sliced)
- 2 teaspoons chia seeds
- 1-2 Tablespoons creamy almond butter
- 1/4 cup fresh berries (like raspberries or blueberries)
- Honey, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat and toast the bread: Preheat your oven to the broil setting. Using a pastry brush, evenly brush the melted butter on top of the bread slice. Place the bread on a baking sheet and toast under the broiler for 4 to 6 minutes, monitoring closely until it turns golden brown. Alternatively, you can toast the bread in a skillet or a toaster.
- Add cottage cheese: Once the toast has cooled slightly to prevent the cottage cheese from melting too much, spread 1/2 cup of cottage cheese evenly over the toasted bread slice.
- Top with your choice of toppings: Customize your toast by adding your preferred sweet or savory toppings from the options provided. For savory, try avocado, cherry tomatoes, smoked salmon, or egg with seasoning. For sweet, use peanut or almond butter, banana, berries, and honey. Enjoy immediately.
Notes
- Adjust the toast time based on your broiler’s intensity to avoid burning.
- Use whole milk cottage cheese for creamier texture, or fat-free for a lighter option.
- Customize toppings to suit dietary preferences or ingredient availability.
- Leftover toppings can be prepared ahead and stored separately for quick assembly.
- Try adding herbs like fresh dill or spices like everything bagel seasoning for extra flavor.
- Prep Time: 2 minutes
- Cook Time: 4-6 minutes
- Category: Snack
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
