Breakfast
Cottage cheese scrambled eggs
The breakfast behind cottage cheese's comeback: whisked into eggs, it melts into soft, creamy curds and quietly doubles the protein. With tomatoes and avocado on the side this is a breakfast that actually holds until lunch.
- Time
- 10 min (5 prep + 5 cook)
- Servings
- 1
- Per serving
- 516 kcal
- Protein
- 32 g
Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.
Ingredients
- 3 eggs egg150 g
- 6 tbsp cottage cheese100 g
- a pinch salt1 g
- a pinch black pepper0.5 g
- 1/2 tbsp butter7 g
- 1 tbsp fresh chives, snipped3 g
To serve
- a handful grape tomatoes100 g
- 1/3 avocado avocado50 g
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Steps
- Whisk the eggs with the cottage cheese, salt, and pepper. Don't worry about the curds — they melt.
- Melt the butter in a nonstick pan over medium-low heat. Pour in the eggs.
- Cook slowly, pulling the edges toward the center with a spatula, until just set and still glossy, 3–4 minutes.
- Top with chives and serve with the tomatoes and avocado.
Does it taste like cottage cheese?
No — the curds melt into the eggs and read as 'extra creamy'. It's the least detectable way to add 11 g of protein to breakfast.
Why this score
Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 516 kcal goes into the pot, 412 g of ingredients comes out as ~390 g of food → 132kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.
The numbers
| Per serving (390 g) | Per 100 g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 516 kcal | 132 kcal |
| Protein | 32.1 g | 8.2 g |
| Fat | 35.7 g | 9.1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 16.2 g | 4.1 g |
| …of which sugars | 0.4 g | 0.1 g |
| Fiber | 2.3 g | 0.6 g |
| Sodium | 983 mg | 252 mg |
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.