Breakfast · Eggs & omelettes

Egg bites

Name: Egg bites
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 8 eggs egg; 3/4 cup cottage cheese; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 2 handfuls baby spinach, chopped; 1 small pepper red bell peppers, finely diced; 2 stalks green onion, sliced; 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded

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

solidly filling

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

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

33% of kcal

75% water

3 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

Nothing here converges the way engineered food does — no sugar, no savoury and no alcohol penalty.

How scores work

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 → 145 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: 145
Protein: (33%); 12 g
Fat: (57%); 9 g
Carbohydrates: (9%); 3 g
of which sugar: 1 g
Fiber: <1 g
Sodium: 326 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.