Cottage Cheese Egg Bake (Frittata)
By Carine Claudepierre
Published on 08/23/2023 - Last updated on 08/26/2024
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This Cottage Cheese Egg Bake is a tasty high-protein brunch recipe perfect to bring to a potluck and packed with 30 grams of protein per serving. You will love the Mediterranean flavors of this cottage cheese egg bake made with spinach, sundried tomatoes, and feta cheese.
This cottage cheese egg bake is a cottage cheese frittata, crustless quiche, or simply the best high-protein breakfast casserole for brunch. It’s a great alternative to Ricotta Frittata, Pumpkin Frittata, or Egg White Frittata.
This easy baked egg recipe is sure to impress and make all your guests and family ask for more.
Ingredients and Substitutions
All you need to make a delicious cottage cheese egg bake are:
- Cottage Cheese – I am using full-fat cottage cheese. Feel free to use low-fat cottage cheese to decrease the saturated fat. For a boost of flavor, try flavored cottage cheese like dill cottage cheese.
- Large Eggs – I use fresh free-range eggs for best flavor.
- Baby Spinach – roughly chopped.
- Sundried Tomatoes – Stored dry, not in oil. If yours are stored in oil, you will have to pat dry the sundried tomatoes to avoid adding too much oil in the dish. Cut them into thin strips if they are whole. Sundried tomatoes are high in proteins and are a great way to add protein to this egg bake.
- Crumbled Feta cheese like goat feta.
- Shredded Cheese like cheddar, Parmesan, or mozzarella.
- Oregano – or Italian parsley.
- Salt and Pepper – Adjust to taste.
- Garlic Powder – or fresh crushed garlic.
How To Make Cottage Cheese Egg Bake
Egg bake are the perfect way to serve an healthy tasty breakfast to the entire family on the weekend. Plus, adding cottage cheese to egg bake is an excellent protein boost. It also adds a cheesy texture and creaminess to your eggs.
- Preparation: First, in a large bowl crack the eggs, add the cottage cheese, grated cheese, feta cheese, herbs, garlic, salt and pepper.
- Whisking: Whisk vigorously until well combined.
- Chopping: Next, place the baby spinach on a chopping board and roughly chop it.
- Combining: Add the chopped spinach, sundried tomatoes to the egg mixture and stir to evenly combine.
- Pouring: Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Grease a 12-inch pie plate or baking dish with melted butter or olive oil.
When all the ingredients are combined, pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish or pie plate. - Baking: Bake the cottage cheese egg bake on the top rack of the oven for 15 to 25 minutes, or until the top is golden brown and the center of the dish is not jiggly, and the eggs are set.
Depending on the size of your pie plate, it can take less or longer to bake in the center.
Be patient, check often, and when the center is set and not jiggly, you know it’s ready to remove from the oven.
I like to foil the pie plate after 20 minutes to prevent the top of the egg casserole from browning too fast.
It also accelerates the baking process, especially in the center of the pan where eggs tend to take time to set. - Cooling: Let the baked egg recipe cool down for 10 minutes at room temperature before slicing.
- Slicing: To slice, loosen the sides of the egg bake with a knife, running along the sides of the pie plate. Then, serve plain or with some toppings.
Serving Egg Bake
Serve the cottage cheese egg bake recipe with some of the below toppings:
- Avocado
- Hot sauce
- Sriracha sauce
- Sour cream or Greek yogurt for a boost of protein.
- Green onion slices or finely chopped Parsley.
Variations
You can change the filling ingredients of this basic recipe to create a range of egg flavors. For example you can replace sundried tomatoes and or spinach with:
- Kale – trimmed chopped
- Button Mushrooms – sliced
- Bell Pepper – cored, cut into stripes. Any color tastes good, or try roasted red bell pepper for more flavors.
- Bacon Bits or bacon strips
- Ham – diced
- Onion – yellow or red onion.
- Green Onions – also called scallions.
- Cooked Sausage, like turkey, pork, or chicken sausage.
- Shredded Chicken – prefer free-range chicken.
Storage Instructions
This egg bake recipe is perfect to meal prep days of savory breakfast.
- Fridge – Cover and refrigerate the pie plate for up to 4 days.
- Freezer – Slice the egg bake and store it in individual containers or freeze the whole recipe in its pie dish. Cover the top with plastic wrap and freeze it for up to one month. Thaw in the fridge the day before serving.
- Rewarm – Place the egg casserole onto a microwave-safe plate and microwave in 1-minute bursts until warm in the middle.
Allergy Swaps
If you need to replace some of the ingredients in the recipe, try the options below.
- Sundried Tomatoes – You can use finely chipped roasted red bell pepper or olives.
- Spinach – Trimmed, finely chopped kale or sliced button mushrooms.
- Feta – You can swap the feta for more cheddar or grated mozzarella cheese.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are my answers to your most common questions about this egg bake with cottage cheese recipe.
A quiche is made with a crust made out of butter, flour and water.
On the other hand, an egg bake has no crust, it’s sometimes called a egg casserole, crustless quiche or frittata.
It’s a good practice to cover the dish after 30 minutes, especially if the center of the dish is still jiggly and the eggs are not set.
Foil diffuses the warmth better, and speeds up the baking of the center of the egg bake. It also prevents the top of the egg casserole from burning or turning brown too fast.
If you added too much liquid to your egg bake, the texture is rubbery or watery.
Always avoid vegetables that release too much water like mushrooms or stir fry these kind of veggies before adding to the egg bake mixture.
It depends on the thickness of your egg layer and the added ingredients. The smaller the dish is, the thicker the layer of eggs will be.
Also, adding ingredients high in moisture like cottage cheese, yogurt, cream or mushrooms increase baking time consequently. But overall it takes from 30 to 55 minutes to bake eggs in the oven.
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Cottage Cheese Egg Bake
Ingredients
- 1 cup Cottage Cheese full-fat or low-fat
- 9 large Eggs
- 1 cup Baby Spinach
- ⅓ cup Feta Cheese (note 1)
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- ⅛ teapsoon Ground Pepper
- 1 teaspoon Dried Oregano
- ¼ teaspoon Garlic Powder
- ½ cup Sundried Tomatoes stored dry, not in oil, cut into stripes (note 2)
- ⅓ cup Grated Cheddar Cheese or grated mozzarella
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Spray a 12-inch pie plate skillet with olive oil. Set aside.
- Roughly chop the baby spinach leaves. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk the eggs, cottage cheese, feta cheese, pepper, salt, garlic powder, grated cheddar, and oregano.
- Stir in sundried tomato strips and chopped spinach.
- Pour the egg mixture in the prepared pie plate.
- Place the pie plate on the middle rack of the oven and bake for 15-25 minutes or until the eggs are set and the center is not jiggly.
- Remove from the oven, and let it cool for 10 minutes before slicing.
- Slice into quarters and serve immediately with lettuce or roasted vegetables.
Storage
- Store in the fridge for up to 4 days, in the pie plate covered with foil.
Notes
Nutrition
About The Author
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook, and founder of Sweet As Honey.
I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.
I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet
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This was so tasty but it was soggy on the bottom. Not sure why? Maybe it’s because I used Egg Makers and not whole eggs. I’ll make it again because the taste is great! I didn’t have sundried tomatoes but will add next time! Thanks for sharing.
we don’t really have sundried tomatoes in my country and when i do find them it’s very expensive and the ones stored in oil…any alternatives because i do like tomatoes very much
or maybe you know how to make them at home?? i’d honestly do that extra step if it’s worth it in taste …and i think it will be..cuz i’m not a huge fan of cottage cheese in the first place so i have a feeling the bake and the tomatoes together will make it a nice experience for my taste buds
you can skip the sundried tomatoes and enjoy the dish 100%, but another idea is to finely chop red bell pepper
This was so good! Meal prepped for my work week. I tripled the amount of baby spinach, though.
Thank you!!
I made one this morning I used egg whites that equal 4 eggs and 5 fresh eggs from our hens, spinach, 1/3 C of my cilantro/jalepeno yogurt aoli, & soyrizo. I had to cook it for an additional 15 minutes but it turned out great! My husband says it could be more dense so I’ll be working on that process next time 😊
Made this last night for dinner using broccoli instead of spinach. I also added mushrooms and sauteed shallots. It was delicious
Thank you!!! Glad you liked it.
I love this recipe! I don’t usually follow a recipe exactly because I feel like I might always need something else or leave out some thing😊 I followed this recipe exactly except for adding some chopped bell pepper yellow. Everything was exactly perfect! The measurements, the ingredients, the temperature and time in the oven and even the correct serving size! Serving sizes aren’t usually realistic and too small but this was exactly correct… I also never left a comment before so thank you very much 👏
Oh thank you so much, it means a lot!
So delicious! The cottage cheese addition makes it light and fluffy.
Thank you!!
This recipe is great! I add chopped onion and mushrooms.
Thank you!!
Loved this!
I did 1 cup of egg whites and 4 regular eggs. I had to cook it about 5 minutes longer but it turned out PERFECT with less fat and more protein.
This recipe is simple and SO GOOD! I replaced both cheeses with goat cheese and used an immersion blender, but followed everything else. It smells like pizza and it tastes so good even reheated in the microwave. This will be a repeat recipe for meal prep.
Thank yoU!!
Loved this recipe. I did add a few mushrooms maybe about a Cup and lightly stir fried the spinach so it would all fit in the egg mixture. I took the leftover and boxed it with a small salad to eat on the plane the next day.
Great recipe! I bumped it up a notch with a couple of dashes of red pepper, chopped chives from the garden, and turkey sausage crumbles for extra protein. Definitely a remake!
Very good! I have made twice now. Added cherry tomatoes and jalapeños, red onion and peppers, pepper Jack cheese. Versatile recipe that uses up eggs when our chickens have loaded us up 🙂
Do you think I could make this with all egg whites?
Maybe, I didn’t try this option yet but you will need more egg whites, then eggs to match the ratio of liquid ingredients.
I am a WW member and before I made this I calculated the WW POINTS. I am in love. A fourth of this for 4 points? Please and thank you. This dish is so good, so easy to make and I had all ingredients on hand. The only thing I will change next time is to use all feta cheese. Thank you!
This is delicious! I was wondering if leftovers could be frozen.
Great dish just as I expected
I’m going to try different vegetables and cheese
Insanely delicious!!!
Can this be prepared ahead of time, say the night before, and stored in the fridge overnight to put in the oven in the morning?
Yes, it should probably work fine!
Would this be suitable for a brittle Type 1 diabetic? Always looking for apopriate recipes for her.
I would omit the sundried tomatoes, the rest should be fine.