Ingredient Spotlight: Cottage Cheese/Ricotta Cheese

Today’s Ingredient Spotlight features yummy cheeses – cottage or ricotta. 

We most often use these cheeses in Italian dishes, how about you? 

Here are some of our favorite ways to use cottage cheese:

Crockpot Ziti – A fantastic meal made by your crockpot in 4 hours!  Love, love, love this one, especially for busy weekends.  Get the recipe here.

Savory Vegetable Tartlets -  This is a newer recipe for us, and a true favorite.  It’s an elegant appetizer, but also works for a Friday night.  Get the recipe here.

Make-Ahead Spinach & Pasta Bake – This make-ahead dinner is delicious.  It’s filled with yummy veggies and you can simply put dinner in the oven 45 minutes and you have a fantastic ziti.  Get the recipe here. 

Garden Vegetable Lasagna – This is a true summer lasagna as there are 9 different veggies in this lasagna, and the noodles are zucchini!  Completely GF, yet filling enough to satisfy your meat-lovers too.  Get the recipe here. 

We also have a favorite Cheesy Lasagna that is our go-to lasagna recipe!  You can get that recipe here.  

And, some of our favorite ricotta cheese recipes:

Garden Veggie Ricotta Pizza – Last summer we tried using ricotta on pizza!  Oh, my!  This pizza is a new favorite.  Get the recipe here. 

Three Cheese Ziti – This recipe comes from one of my dearest friends.  She gave me the recipe for my wedding shower and it’s our favorite ziti.  Makes a great gift for new moms too.  Get the recipe here. 

Lemon Ricotta Pancakes – Using lemon curd topping, these ricotta pancakes are great for spring.  I love the added protein from the ricotta too.  Get the recipe here.

Cheese-Crusted Lasagna Soup – Here’s the scoop with this recipe, it tastes just like lasagna with nearly none of the work!  Delicious, delicious.  Get the recipe here. 

I can’t wait to see how you use ricotta cheese or cottage cheese.  Link up your recipes below.  Don’t forget to join Tiffany next week with recipes featuring coffee. 

Let's see those recipes!

1. Cannoli Cupcakes	2. Homemade Manicotti	3. Lasagna with Vegetables	4. Homemade Sweet Potato Gnocchi
5. Pizza Rice	6. Spinach lasagna rolls	7. White Lasagna	8. Crockpot Ziti
9. Savory Vegetable Tartlets	10. Make-Ahead Spinach & Pasta Bake	11. Garden Vegetable Lasagna	12. Lemon Ricotta Pancakes
13. Cheese-Crusted Lasagna Soup	14. Garden Veggie Ricotta Pizza	15. Three Cheese Baked Ziti	16. Buffalo Chicken Enchiladas
17. Sweet Potato Gnocchi	18. Meatless Parmesan

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