Cottage Cheese Dip

This Cottage Cheese Dip is an easy high-protein dip for an appetizer or quick snack. Plus, all you need to make this healthy dip is just a few minutes.

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I love easy dip recipes and I have shared so many using cream cheese, like my pizza dip. But, since I discovered cottage cheese and its wonderfully creamy texture and high protein profile, I am in awe. It makes any dip, smoothie, or dessert so much tastier. It has a light slaty and sour flavor and a lighter texture than cream cheese.

A cottage cheese dip is a cold dip made from whipped cottage cheese and spices. It’s the perfect appetizer to dip raw vegetables and crackers or high-protein spread to sandwiches. Making this creamy high-protein dip is the easiest dip recipe you will ever make. Let’s see where to start.

Ingredients and Substitutions

All you need to make this easy dip with cottage cheese are:

• Full-Fat Cottage Cheese – You can also use low-fat cottage cheese but it won’t come out as creamy.
• Lemon Juice or lime juice. Fresh or bottled.
• Paprika – or smoked paprika.
• Salt and Ground Black Pepper – Adjust to taste.
• Garlic Powder – Or fresh crushed garlic.
• Dried Dill – or fresh dill.
• Onion Powder – or shallots.
• Fresh Dill to serve

How To Make Cottage Cheese Dip

The best way to make this dip is in a food processor or blender.

1. Add all the cups of cottage cheese and the remaining ingredients to the bowl of the food processor.
2. Blend on medium-high speed until just combined. The dip is ready when creamy, and looks like whipped creamy consistency.
3. Transfer to a bowl and drizzle olive oil on top, fresh chopped dill, and an extra pinch of ground pepper.

What To Dip In Cottage Cheese Dip

This cottage cheese dip goes very on an appetizer platter along with my Greek yogurt ranch dip, easy guacamole, crackers, and vegetables. This cottage cheese dip is perfect with crunchy veggies and bread. My favorite food to dip in this recipe are:

• Homemade Pita Bread Chips
• Celery sticks
• Cucumber sticks or cucumber slices
• Carrots
• Gherkins
• Radish
• Crackers – try my flaxseed crackers for a healthy option

This dip is also a great swap for mayonnaise or sauce in a sandwich. Spread a layer on pita bread, or whole meal bread and add your favorite cold meat, and vegetable to create the best high-protein, filling sandwich. You can also use this as a pizza base, it tastes amazingly warm.

This cottage cheese is also a great swap to high-fat or calorie sauce. In fact, you can use this flavorsome cottage cheese dip as a replacement for the bechamel, cream cheese, or cheese sauce in pasta or lasagna,

With only 98 kcal per 100 grams, it’s a low-calorie and high-protein replacement to the sauce and adds the best creamy texture to a warm meal. The best meal to incorporate this warm cottage cheese dip are:

• Lasagna – to replace bechamel or cheese sauce.
• Pasta
• Broccoli gratin – to replace the cheese sauce and decrease saturated fat.
• Scrambled eggs – or try my scrambled eggs to cottage cheese.
• Toasted sandwich instead of mayonnaise or cheese slices.
• Oatmeal to add protein and creamy texture.

Frequently Asked Questions

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More Dip Recipes

If you like this recipe, you’ll like my many other dip recipes.

Whipped Cottage Cheese

Zaalouk (Moroccan Eggplant Dip)

Tahini Yogurt Sauce

Green Goddess Dip

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Cottage Cheese Dip

This Cottage Cheese Dip recipe is an easy high-protein dip for an appetizer or quick snack. Plus, all you need to make this healthy dip is just a few minutes.

Author: Carine Claudepierre

Prep: 10 minutes mins

Total: 10 minutes mins

Yield: 16 servings

Serving Size: 1 serving

4.59 from 12 votes

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Ingredients

US Customary – Metric

• ▢ 2 cups Cottage Cheese
• ▢ ½ teaspoon Onion Powder
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon Salt
• ▢ ⅛ teaspoon Pepper
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Dried Dill
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon Paprika
• ▢ 1 tablespoon Lemon Juice

Instructions

• In a food processor, add all the ingredients.
• Blend until smooth, and place the dip in a shallow bowl. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or overnight, covering the bowl with plastic wrap.
• Serve with a drizzle of olive oil and fresh parsley or fresh dill on top. Dip in carrot, celery, or cucumber sticks as an appetizer or snack.

Notes

Storage

Store the dip in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.

You can also place the cottage cheese in a sealed container in the freezer and keep it for a month. Then, the day before serving, thaw in the fridge.

Allergy Swaps

If you have some food allergies, here are some options to adapt this whipped cottage cheese dip recipe.

• Citrus-Free – You can swap lemon for apple cider vinegar or a tablespoon of sour cream. Sour cream has a tangy flavor like lemon, that goes very well with this cottage cheese recipe.
• Sodium-Free – Skip the salt and pick a cottage cheese brand low in sodium to reach your goals.
• Dairy-Free – I don’t have access to dairy-free cottage cheese in my country. However, you can blend half of it, pat dry, firm tofu with half dairy-free cream cheese. This way, you will reach the same protein profile and creaminess as cottage cheese.

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NutritionServing Size: 1 serving

Yield: 16 servings

Nutrition

Serving: 1 servingCalories: 27.1 kcal (1%)Carbohydrates: 1.2 gFiber: 0.1 gNet Carbs: 1.1 gProtein: 3 g (6%)Fat: 1.1 g (2%)Saturated Fat: 0.5 g (3%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.04 gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.2 gCholesterol: 4.5 mg (2%)Sodium: 119.3 mg (5%)Potassium: 34.1 mg (1%)Sugar: 0.7 g (1%)Vitamin A: 55.9 IU (1%)Vitamin B12: 0.1 µg (2%)Vitamin C: 0.4 mgVitamin D: 0.03 µgCalcium: 23.5 mg (2%)Iron: 0.1 mg (1%)Magnesium: 2.7 mg (1%)Zinc: 0.1 mg (1%)