Mexican Cottage Cheese Food

MEXICAN COTTAGE CHEESE LASAGNA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Prepare a 13" X 9" baking pan by spraying with cooking spray.
• Spray cooking spray on a large nonstick skillet and place over medium heat. Stir in the ground beef or turkey and cook for 5 minutes or until no longer pink.
• Transfer the ground beef or turkey to a medium bowl. Wipe skillet with a paper towel. Spray another coat of cooking spray onto skillet and place over medium heat. Add onion and garlic to pan; cover and cook, stirring occasionally, for 7 to 8 minutes, or until lightly browned. Stir into the ground beef or turkey in the bowl.
• Combine cottage cheese, sour cream, peppers, cilantro (if using), cumin, and salt.
• Layer 1 cup of the salsa across the bottom of the baking dish. Layer half of the tortillas evenly over the salsa. Cover tortillas with half of the cottage cheese mixture. Layer on half of the ground beef or turkey mixture. Top with 1 cup of the remaining salsa and ½ cup of the Monterey Jack cheese.
• Repeat the layering sequence with the remaining tortillas, cottage cheese mixture, and ground beef or turkey mixture. Sprinkle with the remaining salsa and ¾ cup Monterey Jack cheese.
• Bake for 30 minutes, or until heated through. If the cheese browns too quickly loosely cover with foil.

MEXICAN COTTAGE CHEESE

Steps:

• Heat the beans and cottage cheese together on stove to the desired temperature.
• pour in a bowl and season with salt, black pepper and the crushed red pepper or cayenne if you like it spicy.

MEXICAN COTTAGE CHEESE DIP

Steps:

• Mix the cottage cheese with a mixer until curds are very small. Add dip envelope and salsa. Refrigerate. Enjoy with Baked Tortilla Chips!

MEXICAN LASAGNA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Brown turkey, drain (if necessary).
• Add seasoning packet, onion, tomato sauce and salsa.
• Simmer 5-7 minutes.
• Combine cottage cheese and egg in small bowl.
• Spray 9 x 13 pan with cooking spray.
• Assemble lasagna in the following order: 1/2 meat mixture, 1/2 tortillas, 1/2 cottage cheese mixture, 1/2 cheese, repeat.
• Bake at 350°F for 25 minutes.
• Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

MEXICAN LASAGNA WITH COTTAGE CHEESE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Brown meat in large skillet on medium heat; drain. Add salsa, corn and seasonings; mix well.
• Layer 1/3 of the meat mixture, half the tortillas and half the cottage cheese in 13x9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray. Repeat layers. Cover with remaining meat mixture. Sprinkle with shredded cheese.
• Bake 30 min. or until heated through.

FAMOUS COTTAGE CHEESE DIP

Steps:

• Mix all above ingredients together in a medium sized bowl.
• For best results, use regular cottage cheese and sour cream, rather than reduced fat.
• This will help form a thicker dip.
• Enjoy!

TACO CASSEROLE WITH COTTAGE CHEESE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Coat a 2 1/2-quart casserole with nonstick cooking spray.
• In a large skillet, brown ground beef over medium-high heat.
• Remove from heat and drain if necessary.
• Stir in tomato sauce, onion, taco seasoning mix, and garlic powder; set aside.
• In a medium bowl, combine sour cream and cottage cheese; set aside.
• Place half of the tortilla chips in the casserole dish and top with half of the ground beef mixture, then half of the sour cream mixture.
• Sprinkle with half of the Monterey Jack cheese.
• Repeat layers.
• Bake, uncovered, 30 to 35 minutes, or until cheese melts and casserole is heated through.

LAYERED MEXICAN CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Brown meat; drain.
• Add corn and salsa; cook until thoroughly heated.
• Reserve 2 tablespoons olives; stir remaining olives into meat mixture.
• Combine cottage cheese and sour cream.
• In 2 quart casserole, layer 2 cups chips, half of meat mixture, 3/4 cup Cheddar cheese and half of cottage cheese mixture. Repeat layers; cover.
• Bake at 350° F for 35 minutes.
• Stand up remaining chips around edge of casserole. Top casserole with tomato, reserved olives and remaining Cheddar cheese. Continue baking 10 minutes.