Cottage Cheese Bread (10+ Grams Protein!)

Gentle, fluffy, and filled with 10 grams of protein per serving, this cottage cheese bread tastes unimaginable AND will maintain you full all day!

In my kitchen, we’re at all times pondering of latest methods to sneak additional protein into our meals. Ever since I found the magic of cottage cheese, I’ve been utilizing it in every thing from pancakes to ice cream to pudding and, extra just lately, freshly baked bread. 

This fast bread recipe makes use of cottage cheese for protein, taste, and texture. The outcomes communicate for themselves: Gentle and fluffy bread with a fragile rise and the right crumble. 

Desk of Contents

1. Recipe Highlights
2. Substances wanted
3. Find out how to make cottage cheese bread
4. Recipe ideas and variations
5. Storage directions
6. Incessantly requested questions
7. Extra do-it-yourself bread recipes to strive
8. Cottage Cheese Bread (Recipe Card)

Recipe Highlights

• Definitely worth the hype. Cottage cheese has been having its second, and I’m okay with it! As a lot as I take pleasure in consuming it straight out of the bathtub, I discover it really works wonders in all kinds of baking recipes.
• 10 grams of protein. Like my protein bread, this recipe makes use of distinctive elements to maintain you full and happy for hours. 
• Versatile. Use this bread precisely as you’d common bread and add your favourite toppings, or use it as sandwich bread. Plus, it toasts superbly. 
• No cottage cheese taste. Not everybody loves the flavour of cottage cheese, however fortunate for you, this bread has zero cottage cheese taste.

I like beginning my morning with toast, and once I don’t have to fret a couple of sugar crash with common bread, that’s even higher. In case you’re trying so as to add extra protein to your mornings, strive my protein espresso and protein oatmeal. 

Substances wanted

In case you take pleasure in baking bread at dwelling, you in all probability have all of the elements you’ll want. Right here’s precisely what you’ll must make this recipe:

• Heat water. To activate the yeast. Use lukewarm water. 
• On the spot yeast. To provide the bread its rise. Double-check the expiration date to ensure the yeast hasn’t expired. You may also use lively dry yeast. 
• Sugar. When mixed with water, the sugar will activate the yeast and create the bubbles to make the dough rise. You may also use honey, however be certain that it’s totally dissolved within the water earlier than including the yeast.
• Cottage cheese. I want utilizing full-fat cottage cheese for its richer taste, however you’ll be able to actually use low-fat or nonfat cottage cheese. In case your cottage cheese is massive curd or clumpy (sorry, that’s one of the best ways to explain it), you’ll be able to mix it till it’s easy.
• Eggs. So as to add moisture and richness to the dough. For a low-fat model, use 2 egg whites for each egg.
• Oil. So as to add richness, grease the loaf pan and assist the oats follow the crust. 
• Salt. Enhances the flavour of the opposite elements. 
• Baking powder. To assist the bread rise.
• Oat flour. It will give the dough extra taste and a chewier texture than simply utilizing common flour.
• Flour. Common all-purpose flour or bread flour is finest. 
• Rolled oats. To cowl the surface of the bread loaf. 

Discover the printable recipe with measurements under.

Find out how to make cottage cheese bread

Step 1- Activate the yeast. Put the yeast and 1 teaspoon of sugar in a bowl with heat water. Whisk collectively and put aside to proof. 

Step 2- Mix moist elements. In a big mixing bowl, mix the cottage cheese, eggs, and oil. 

Step 3- Add yeast. As soon as bubbles kind within the yeast combination, pour it into the cottage cheese combination and mix. 

Step 4- Add dry elements and knead. To the bowl, add the remainder of the sugar, salt, baking powder, and each flours. Start kneading utilizing the dough hook on a stand mixer. Knead till the dough types right into a sticky dough ball. 

Step 5- Rise. Cowl the bowl with a clear kitchen towel and let it rise till doubled in measurement, about 1 hour. 

Step 6- Form. Knead the dough along with your palms on a frivolously dusted floor and kind right into a log form. Line a loaf pan with parchment paper and frivolously grease with cooking spray. Place the dough inside the pan and let it relaxation for 40 minutes on heat. 

Step 7- Prep the bread. Preheat the oven to 350F/180C. Brush the bread with oil and sprinkle it with oats. 

Step 8- Bake. Bake the bread for 35 minutes. Let it cool within the pan for an additional 20 minutes earlier than eradicating and slicing.

Recipe ideas and variations

• Keep away from overmixing. I cannot stress this sufficient! The extra you combine the dough, the extra gluten develops and the extra air you lose, making for a flat and chewy bread loaf. Solely combine till the elements are mixed, and a dough ball has fashioned. 
• Use a regular bowl. No stand mixer? Don’t fret. I’ve examined this out utilizing a mixing bowl and wood spoon and it really works simply as properly, it simply wants extra mixing (depend it as an arm exercise).
• Sift the dry elements. I’ll admit that typically I skip this step out of comfort, however I promise it makes for lighter, fluffier bread.
• Slice with a serrated knife. Utilizing a pointy knife with a serrated blade will assist break by means of the crust and keep away from smashing the bread as you slice. 
• Make it gluten-free. Swap the all-purpose flour for equal elements gluten-free flour, however be certain that there’s xanthan gum within the flour, or add ½ teaspoon to the flour combination.
• Change up the oats. As a substitute, use blended seeds and coarse sea salt to coat the surface of the loaf. 

Storage directions

To retailer: Leftover bread may be stored in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 1 week. 

To freeze: Place any leftover bread in a freezer-safe container and freeze for as much as 6 months. Let the frozen bread thaw in a single day at room temperature earlier than toasting and having fun with.

Incessantly requested questions

Extra do-it-yourself bread recipes to strive

• Dairy-free bread– Crusty on the surface, fluffy on the within, and completely vegan-friendly.
• Lebanese bread– A wholesome and attractive various to conventional flatbread.
• Coconut flour bread– My household’s favourite gluten-free bread recipe!
• Raspberry bread– Sweetened quickbread bursting with recent raspberries. 
• Pupusas– Considered one of my favourite childhood bread- these are basically stuffed tortillas.