Cottage cheese and pineapple pot with oatcakes
10 min · 24 g protein · 283 cals / serving
The British lunchbox classic, brought back as a pot: cool cottage cheese topped with juicy diced pineapple and crisp cucumber, finished with chives, a pinch of chilli and lots of black pepper, with cucumber sticks and crumbly Scottish oatcakes on the side to scoop. Sweet, salty, creamy and crunchy, the retro pairing everyone remembers and nobody can quite explain.
Ingredients
- 340 g cottage cheese (1%), low-fat cottage cheese
- 1 tbsp fresh chives, snipped
- 200 g pineapple, fresh, diced small (or tinned in juice, drained)
- 3/4 cucumber (300 g) cucumber, half thinly sliced, half cut into sticks
- a pinch red pepper flakes, chilli flakes (optional)
- a few grinds black pepper
To serve
- 3 oatcakes
Steps
- Stir most of the chives into the cottage cheese and spoon it into two bowls or lidded pots. Top with the pineapple and the sliced cucumber, then finish with the rest of the chives, a pinch of chilli flakes and a good grind of black pepper.
- Serve with the cucumber sticks and the oatcakes on the side, and scoop as you go. For a lunchbox, pack the oatcakes separately so they stay crisp.
Good to know
Tinned or fresh pineapple?
Fresh is juicier and sharper; tinned pineapple in juice (not syrup) works well if you drain it and pat it dry so the pot does not go watery.
Gluten-free?
For gluten-free, use oatcakes labelled gluten-free.
A savoury twist?
A little diced ham stirred through makes it a little Hawaiian; a spoon of mango chutney instead of the pineapple is another favourite.
Per
- Calories
- 64
- Protein
- (34%)
- 5 g
- Fat
- (18%)
- 1 g
- Carbohydrates
- (48%)
- 8 g
- of which sugar
- 4 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 188 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. General guidance, not medical advice. Talk to your prescriber. How
As written, 565 kcal goes into the pot and 877 g of ingredients comes out as about 877 g of food: 64 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.