Honoring my daughter, Tessa's request for baked potatoes for dinner, I decided to get a little creative and try to make it something other than a carb and fat fest. My solution, cottage cheese and chives. Before you get totally grossed out, I want you to think of how cottage cheese can be used to place of ricotta cheese in lasagna. Once cottage cheese heats up, it starts to melt into a yummy cheesy consistency.
So I went ahead and slapped some cottage cheese onto my potato instead butter and sour cream and warmed it up in the microwave for 30 seconds. Once it was warm, the cottage cheese even looked like sour cream! I topped it off with some chives, a chopped up slice of turkey breast and some broccoli. The result...YUMMY! I gave a bite to my husband who was not in on the preparation and happens to detest cottage cheese and he had no clue it was cottage cheese! The melted cottage cheese gave it the creamy taste you're looking for when you normally drown your potato in condiments. But instead of piling on the fat, you're piling on the protein! Check out these numbers.
Large Potato: Cals-278 Carbs-63 Fat-0 Protein-7
1/3 c. Low Fat Cottage Cheese: Cals-57 Carbs-2 Fat-1.5 Protein-10
1 Slice Turkey Breast: Cals-22 Carbs-1 Fat-0.5 Protein-4
1/2 c. Broccoli: Cals-27 Carbs-6 Fat-0 Protein-2
1 Tbls. Fresh Chives: Cals-1 Carbs-0 Fat-0 Protein-0
Total: Cals-385 Carbs-72 Fat-2 Protein-23
Not bad! The best part it's super easy to make and totally filled me up (for those of you who know me well, know that's not easy to do)! So get crazy and go for the cottage cheese and chives!
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