Breakfast
Egg bites
The coffee-shop favorite, rebuilt in a muffin tin for a fraction of the price: eggs blended with cottage cheese for that signature silky texture, studded with spinach, pepper, and cheddar. A batch covers four breakfasts — grab, reheat, done.
- Time
- 35 min (10 prep + 25 cook)
- Servings
- 4
- Per serving
- 276 kcal
- Protein
- 23 g
Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.
Ingredients
- 8 eggs egg400 g
- 3/4 cup cottage cheese200 g
- 1/4 tsp salt2 g
- 1/2 tsp black pepper1 g
- 2 handfuls baby spinach, chopped80 g
- 1 small pepper red bell peppers, finely diced100 g
- 2 stalks green onion, sliced20 g
- 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded60 g
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Steps
- Heat the oven to 180°C (350°F). Blend the eggs, cottage cheese, salt, and pepper until completely smooth — the blender is the whole secret to the silky texture.
- Divide the spinach, bell pepper, and green onion between 12 greased muffin cups. Pour the egg mixture over and top with cheddar.
- Bake 20–25 minutes until just set and barely golden. They puff up dramatically, then settle — that's normal.
- Eat warm, or refrigerate up to 4 days. Reheat 30 seconds in the microwave; three bites make a breakfast.
Why this score
Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1104 kcal goes into the pot, 863 g of ingredients comes out as ~760 g of food → 145kcal 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 (190 g) | Per 100 g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 276 kcal | 145 kcal |
| Protein | 22.6 g | 11.9 g |
| Fat | 17.3 g | 9.1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 6.3 g | 3.3 g |
| …of which sugars | 1.5 g | 0.8 g |
| Fiber | 0.8 g | 0.4 g |
| Sodium | 619 mg | 326 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.