Cook this Low Carb Cottage Cheese Bread in One Minute

This low carb cottage cheese bread is a quick bit of magic that you can cook in about one minute in the microwave! The bread is high in protein and gluten free as well, with a soft texture a bit like a muffin. If you’ve been missing bread since going low carb, this cottage cheese bread provides a fun way to actually enjoy bread and get your protein in at the same time.

So what ingredients do you use? All of the main ingredients in this bread are a good source of protein:

• Cottage cheese: 4g protein per 2 Tablespoons, 2g carbs, 0g fiber, 36 calories
• Almond flour: 4g protein per 2 Tablespoons, 2g carbs, 2g fiber, 80 calories
• Peanut butter powder – I used PBFit: 7g protein per 2 Tablespoon, 6g carbs, 2g fiber, 60 calories
• Egg: 6.3g protein, 0.4g carbs, 0g fiber, 72 calories

Add in a bit of baking powder to make it poof up and you have yourself some crazy quick and easy low carb and gluten free bread anytime you want it.

So what Nutrition does this low carb cottage cheese bread deliver?

Doing the math from the above numbers, together that adds up to 21.3g of protein, so that’s 10.65g protein per serving. Total carbs are 5.2g per serving, but 2g of those carbs are fiber. Subtract the fiber, you get 3.2g net carbs per serving. That’s if you use the regular PBFit peanut butter powder that has some sugar in it. If you use the no sugar added peanut butter powder, you’ll have even fewer carbs.

FYI, my foodie friends: the nutrition analyzers are not providing any help here so I’m looking up nutrition info on each thing and manually doing the math for you. You’re welcome!

So we get 3.2 g of carbs per piece of bread. (Recipe makes two pieces of bread.) Considering a regular slice of bread has 12 – 13g net carbs, we’ve cut the carbs by a factor of 4. And over 10 g of protein! Not bad for one “slice” of bread.

See the recipe below for more nutrition facts.

But how does this Cottage Cheese Bread taste?

I have to say when I was mixing it up, I had some serious doubts that this was going to work at all. I tasted the batter too and thought how the heck could this possibly turn out good? But watching it puff up in the microwave was so wild and wonderful! Then I took it out, tasted it and thought “hey, this is actually good!”

Does this taste like real yeasted (or sourdough) bread? Definitively no, it does not have the same texture that traditional yeasted or sourdough bread has. Nor does it taste anything like the chewy texture of an English muffin. You just cannot hope to replicate the flavor or texture of REAL bread in one minute. You’ll find this bread tastes more like a savory plain muffin, with a peanutty undertone.

That said, it does have a really good flavor and soft poofy texture. Yes, you can slice it in half horizontally and toast it. Butter it if you want. Spread with whatever loveliness you love to spread on your bread. Or use it to make yourself a yummy sandwich.

I’m partial to smashed avocado, chopped tomato with a sprinkle of everything bagel seasoning. I was wondering if that topping would work with this peanut-ty bread. And happy to report that it WORKED! Avocado toast for the WIN!

Recipe from Sugar Free Mom. Normally, I can’t help but mess with the recipe, but this time I made it pretty much like she wrote it. Mostly to see how well it would work. I definitely think I’d try it again, next time I wake up craving protein and bread. And maybe I’ll make my mom a sweet fruity microwave cottage cheese muffin. She adores muffins.

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