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Greek yogurt cheesecake

Name: Greek yogurt cheesecake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 75 min
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 8 crackers graham crackers, crushed; 3 1/2 tbsp butter, melted; 2 1/2 cups nonfat Greek yogurt; 1 1/2 cups cottage cheese; 1/2 block cream cheese; 2/3 cup granulated sugar; 3 egg; 2 1/2 tbsp cornstarch; 2 tsp vanilla extract; juice of 1/2 lemon

Cheesecake rebuilt on strained yogurt and cottage cheese instead of four blocks of cream cheese. Denser, tangier, and it carries real protein per slice.

Time: 75 min (20 prep + 55 cook)
Servings: 12
Per serving: 233 kcal
Protein: 11 g

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

Ingredients

Crust

8 crackers graham crackers, crushed120 g
3 1/2 tbsp butter, melted50 g

Filling

2 1/2 cups nonfat Greek yogurt600 g
1 1/2 cups cottage cheese340 g
1/2 block cream cheese110 g
2/3 cup granulated sugar130 g
3 egg150 g
2 1/2 tbsp cornstarch20 g
2 tsp vanilla extract8 g
juice of 1/2 lemon20 g

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Steps

Press the crumb base into a 23 cm (9-inch) springform and bake 10 minutes at 175°C.
Blend the yogurt, cottage cheese and cream cheese completely smooth — this is the step that decides whether it reads as cheesecake or as baked yogurt.
Beat in the sugar, then the eggs one at a time on low, then the cornstarch, vanilla and lemon. The cornstarch matters more here than in a classic: yogurt weeps without it.
Bake at 160°C for 50–55 minutes until the edge is set and the middle wobbles. Oven off, door ajar, one hour; then chill overnight.

Alternative

New York cheesecakethe New York original6

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

19% of kcal

59% water

2 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 2796 kcal goes into the pot, 1548 g of ingredients comes out as ~1350 g of food → 207 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: 207
Protein: (19%); 10 g
Fat: (39%); 9 g
Carbohydrates: (41%); 21 g
of which sugar: 13 g
Fiber: <1 g
Sodium: 218 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.