This is my favorite winter breakfast recipe! I love how leek gives “spring taste” to the quark/cottage cheese. Simple & quick breakfast idea.
If you ask me I prefer savory breakfast and it’s hard to find inspiration online. It feels like everyone else love sweet breakfast.
Breakfast Cottage cheese / quark with greens
In our family cottage cheese/quark is main breakfast meal
Ingredients
- 2 packages cottage cheese (about 400 grams)
- 1 small or 1/2 long cucumber
- chopped leaks to taste (about 1/4 cup)
- dill to taste (frozen 1 tbsp)
- green salt
- sour cream to desired consistency (about 1/4 cup)
Directions
- Put cottage cheese/quark into bowl
- Cut cucumber, leek, and dill if using fresh and add to cottage cheese/quark.
- Add salt, sour cream and mix until combined. Eat with bread, scrambled eggs, etc..
Ilze
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I completely forgot about cottage cheese for breakfast! Yes, we used to have it quite often when I was living in back in Poland; kind of an Eastern European thing, indeed. Normally, we would have it with spring onion but leak and dill sound more interesting. I aim to try it asap. Thanks!
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🙂 leek is “winter” option! In spring we add radish and dill, and in summer, cucumber, tomato, and dill, spring onions etc.
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Interesting your comment about ‘sweet breakfast’. I never have it, always neutral or savoury.
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🙂 Then you might have an idea what to serve my kids!!! 😀 They would love to eat pancakes and drink kakao every morning!
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Oh I used to love cottage cheese for breakfast! I so miss it!
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You can’t eat it anymore! Why!!?
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It is dairy and I’m allergic:(
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I thought your diet should be gluten-free. But gluten-free & dairy- free = almost vegan!
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Yes it’s a tough combination:( it’s a good thing I like to bake and cook!
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Yes, definitely! We went for gluten free vegan and sugar free few years ago, and it was crazy cooking for me, cause we were responsible for kids to have “everything they need” .. since that I’m doing simple cooking 🙂
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Yes I wish it was a choice so I could sometimes take the easy way out!
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I don’t know your case, but I hope everything will be alright with you! Also, did you know that sugar causing lot of healthy problems!? And google “digestive bitters” !
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Hmm interesting. I’m allergic to dairy and gluten, that’s all.
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Here in Latvia it would be – “OMG!Allergy to gluten what you gonna eat!?!?”
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Ya I just eat a lot of fruits, veggies and protein
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Keep up the good work by eating protein!!!
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Thanks for the idea! I like cottage cheese so will think about trying it for breakfast.
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I hope you like it!
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what is green salt? And could you do a (veggie) recipe for Latvian grey peas? The only recipe I find in the internet is the standard Latvian recipe with grey peas and spek.
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Green salt is basicly dried herbs with salt. Mine has green color and contains celery, parsley, leeks, onions, carrots, basil, sea salt.
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