Vegetarian protein plate with eggs, edamame and cottage cheese
8 min · 45 g protein · 474 cals / serving
A lunch plate you assemble rather than cook: two ready-boiled eggs, a scoop of cottage cheese, a pile of bright green edamame, crunchy cucumber, radishes and tomatoes, and a spoon of hummus to drag them through. A finish of everything-bagel seasoning ties it together.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup edamame, frozen shelled
- 2 hard-boiled eggs, ready-boiled and peeled, halved
- 2/3 cup cottage cheese (1%)
- 1/3 cucumber, cut in sticks
- 5 radishes, halved
- 2 tbsp hummus
- 1/2 tsp everything bagel seasoning
- a pinch salt, flaky, for the eggs and edamame
Steps
- Put the frozen edamame in a bowl, cover with boiling water from the kettle and leave 2–3 minutes, then drain and cool under the cold tap; shake dry.
- Arrange the eggs, cottage cheese, edamame, cucumber, radishes, tomatoes and hummus on a plate.
- Sprinkle the everything-bagel seasoning over the eggs and cottage cheese and the salt over the edamame.
Good to know
Where do I get ready-boiled eggs?
Most supermarkets sell them peeled in packs of two or six next to the eggs or the deli salads. Or boil a batch of six on Sunday: they keep a week in the fridge in their shells.
Can I add cheese?
A few cubes of cheddar or a crumble of feta make it more of a ploughman's; a 3/4 oz piece of cheddar adds about 80 kcal.
Per
- Calories
- 79
- Protein
- (38%)
- 7 g
- Fat
- (43%)
- 4 g
- Carbohydrates
- (19%)
- 4 g
- of which sugar
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 230 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 474 kcal goes into the pot and 598 g of ingredients comes out as about 598 g of food: 79 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.