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Pasta with cottage cheese

Pasta with cottage cheese

A simple, quick dish from everyday ingredients! Pasta with cottage cheese is an unusual but very tasty combination. You can make it savory or sweet — the sweet version is an especially big hit with kids. The cottage cheese makes the dish wholesome.

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Pasta

200

Cottage cheese

200

Butter

Salt

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 23 % 13 g

Fats 16 % 9 g

Carbohydrates 61 % 34 g

270 kcal

GI: 0 / 100 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 30 min

Step 1:

How do you make pasta with cottage cheese? Gather the ingredients. Any pasta shape works, as long as it's made from durum wheat — that kind doesn't go mushy as it cooks and is much more wholesome. Use cottage cheese of any fat content, fresh and natural, with no milk-fat substitutes. Same goes for the butter — choose a good-quality brand.
Step 2:

Pour cold, clean water into a suitably sized pot. Even just for boiling pasta, use filtered or bottled water — its taste carries into the dish, and tap water can give it an off-flavor. Add salt to the water.
Step 3:

Bring the water to a boil over high heat and add the pasta. Be sure to stir it with a spoon, or it may stick to the bottom. Bring it back to a boil and lower the heat.
Step 4:

Cook the pasta until done, per the package directions. I like it not overly soft but a little firm (al dente). Don't forget to stir it now and then — there's still a risk of sticking.
Step 5:

Drain the cooked pasta in a colander and let the water run off. Then return the pasta to the pot.
Step 6:

Add butter to the hot pasta and mix well.
Step 7:

Then add the cottage cheese to the pasta.
Step 8:

Mix everything thoroughly, breaking up any big lumps. The dish is ready — serve it right away, since pasta cools off fast and is best hot. Enjoy!

Be sure to give this combination a try. It came out really tasty. Just use cottage cheese that isn't too dry, around 5–9% fat. You can also make this dish sweet: add 2–3 level tablespoons of sugar to the cottage cheese and mix well.
For how to cook pasta properly, how to cook it al dente, how to choose a quality product to avoid disappointment, and much more, see the article "Pasta — the fine points of choosing and cooking it."
For how to choose the perfect pot for soup, porridge, or pickling, see the article on pots.