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Chocolate cottage cheese mousse

Name: Chocolate cottage cheese mousse
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups cottage cheese; 1/4 cup cocoa powder; 2 1/2 tbsp honey; 1 tsp vanilla extract; a pinch salt; 40 g dark chocolate 60-69%, melted, slightly cooled

The second act of cottage cheese's dessert era: blended with cocoa and melted dark chocolate until it turns into a dense, glossy mousse. Nobody guesses the base — they just notice it holds you like dessert rarely does.

Time: 10 min (10 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 232 kcal
Protein: 15 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

2 cups cottage cheese450 g
1/4 cup cocoa powder30 g
2 1/2 tbsp honey50 g
1 tsp vanilla extract5 g
a pinch salt0.5 g
40 g dark chocolate 60-69%, melted, slightly cooled40 g

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Steps

Blend the cottage cheese, cocoa, honey, vanilla, and salt until completely smooth — scrape down the sides once; graininess means keep going.
With the blender running, pour in the melted chocolate. It tightens the mousse and deepens the flavor.
Divide into four glasses and chill at least 1 hour — it sets firmer and tastes more like mousse cold.
Optional: a few berries or a shave of dark chocolate on top.

Why both cocoa and melted chocolate?

Cocoa brings the deep chocolate flavor almost calorie-free; the melted chocolate brings texture and shine. All-chocolate versions taste similar but roughly double the calorie cost per serving.

Why this score

moderately filling

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

25% of kcal

64% water

15 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 930 kcal goes into the pot, 576 g of ingredients comes out as ~575 g of food → 162 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 162
Protein: (25%); 11 g
Fat: (35%); 7 g
Carbohydrates: (41%); 18 g
of which sugar: 10 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sodium: 310 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.