Viral High Protein Eggs and Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl

Start your day with a viral high protein powerhouse—a creamy, savory blend of cottage cheese and perfectly hard-boiled eggs, topped with fresh avocado and vegetables. Packed with over 20 grams of protein, this trending eggs and cottage cheese breakfast bowl is quick, delicious, and totally crave-worthy.

To be honest, I eat this more often for a low-carb lunch than I do for breakfast. It also makes a pretty dang good afternoon snack. I usually do a half serving if I’m eating it as a snack. Whichever way you eat it, it’s a great option for any meal if you’re looking for a healthy, satisfying and flavorful dish. In this recipe, you’ll be eating just 15 carbohydrates along with 21 g protein, 7 g fiber and 25 g fat.

Ingredients Needed for Cottage Cheese and Egg Breakfast Bowl

I bet you never thought you could have a healthy, protein-packed breakfast with only a few ingredients and in just a few minutes. The combination of creamy and crunchy textures with all the savory flavors is so satisfying. Here is everything you need:

• Cottage Cheese: I use low fat, but you can use any variety of cottage cheese you love. It is high in protein and acts as the base for the savory bowl.
  • NOTE: If you end up with extra cottage cheese, use it to make our wild blueberry cottage cheese pancakes for breakfast tomorrow!
• Hard Boiled Eggs: Adds extra healthy protein and can be made days ahead of time making this a quick and easy recipe.
• Grape Tomatoes: Cherry tomatoes also work just fine.
• English Cucumber: Adds crunch and fresh flavor, plus no need to peel or remove the seeds.
• Avocados: Adds creaminess and healthy fat.
• Salt and Black Pepper: Adds flavor.
• Mae Ploy Sweet Chili Sauce: Adds a little sweetness and a little heat.

The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card down below. Keep scrolling for all the details!

How to Make a Cottage Cheese and Egg Breakfast

I almost shouldn’t even call this a recipe because there’s not much to it. Making a savory cottage cheese breakfast bowl is just a matter of assembling the different ingredients and then digging in.

1. Start with the Cottage Cheese Base: Add about 1/2 cup of cottage cheese to a bowl.
2. Add the Components: Slice the egg in half and place on top of the cottage cheese, add the avocado, cucumber and tomatoes followed by a

7 Minute High Protein Savory Oatmeal with Cottage Cheese

Kickstart your day with this 7 minute High-Protein Savory Oatmeal with Cottage Cheese! This is the breakfast taking the internet by storm! A warm, satisfying bowl packed with crispy oats, cottage cheese, and leafy greens. Loaded with protein, healthy fats, and fiber, our savory oats recipe is the perfect post-workout refuel or a filling and healthy breakfast that keeps you energized for hours.

I’ve always been about getting good protein for breakfast especially now that I’ve hit my 40s (gasp!). I love a good breakfast smoothie or a bowl of oatmeal with protein powder added to start my day. Having a savory option now with this high protein oatmeal is totally changing my mornings!

If you’ve never tried savory oats before, then you are missing out! Oats are just like any other grain…farro, barley, brown rice…and they are so healthy! Jump on the viral savory oatmeal train with us! You’ll LOVE it!

Ingredients for High Protein Savory Oatmeal

If you haven’t ever tried a savory high protein oat recipe, then let this be your first! Here is everything you will need for this tasty oatmeal recipe:

• Butter: Adds richness and flavor and helps toast the oats.
• Old Fashioned Rolled Oats: Do not use quick oats for this recipe! They will get mushy and almost pasty. Stick with the rolled oats!
• Kosher Salt: Adds flavor.
• Water: Helps cook the oats.
• Baby Kale: If you aren’t a kale fan, go with baby spinach instead.
• Olive Oil: Helps sauté the kale.
• Low Fat Cottage Cheese: Adds creaminess and great protein.
• Cherry Tomatoes: Grape tomatoes also work great.
• Flaked Sea Salt: Adds flavor and a little texture.
• Aleppo Pepper: Adds flavor and tiny bit of heat.
• Lemon Juice: This is totally optional but I love the bright freshness it adds.

The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Make High Protein Savory Oatmeal

The key to making this breakfast grain bowl totally spectacular is to toast the oats before cooking them. It adds a depth of flavor you don’t want to miss! So let’s start there and then rest is just making oatmeal and adding a few healthy toppings! Here are the steps:

1. Toast the Oats: Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat, add the oats and let them toast for a few minutes. Stir often. Add a dash of s

Tender crab meat and a flavorful cream cheese sauce combine to make this hot crab dip taste similar to crab rangoon, but in dippable form! Serve with crostini, toasted baguette, crackers, wonton chips, or whichever dippers you like best.

Hot Crab Dip

This dip has its origins in crab stuffed mushrooms. I had leftover filling and sampled it by dipping a cracker into it. Before I knew what was happening, the pan was empty.

This fantastic appetizer has a very tiki bar feel to it and makes a great addition to any party table. Don’t let that keep you from making it any time, though. It’s fast enough to make on a weeknight that needs a little something special to motivate you through the rest of the week.

And if you want to keep the tiki bar theme, you should serve this with our Mai Tai Cocktail which combines light and dark rums with orange liqueur and a tiny splash of pineapple juice for a citrusy, bright and smooth drink.

Crab Stuffed Mushrooms

I know not everyone is a mushroom fan. I forgive you. But seriously, I know mushrooms can be polarizing in food.

Could you make this without the mushrooms? Sure. Absolutely.

However, I will tell you that the mushrooms add a great flavor and texture without the recipe tasting even remotely mushroomy. It just makes the dip more substantial and savory.

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High-Protein Viral Cottage Cheese Beef & Sweet Potato Bowl

Get ready to fuel up with this High-Protein Cottage Cheese Beef & Sweet Potato Bowl! Packed with lean ground beef, creamy cottage cheese, and roasted sweet potatoes, this protein bowl delivers a perfect balance of savory and sweet in every bite.

With 40 grams of protein per serving, it’s the ultimate comfort food meets clean eating — perfect for meal prep, post-workout refuels, or a quick weeknight dinner that actually keeps you full. Topped with avocado and pickled red onions is my favorite way to eat it!

I kept hearing about these viral sweet potato bowls all over TikTok and other social media channels, and you know I had to jump on the train and create one my family would love. The components all seemed so odd to eat together, but let me tell you, it works! The flavors and textures all together in one bowl are like a party in your mouth.

Here’s the nutritional breakdown on the Oh Sweet Basil version of the viral Cottage Cheese Sweet Potato Beef Bowl: 36g carbohydrates, 40g protein, 32g fat, and 11g fiber.

Ingredients for a Sweet Potato Bowl

Keep in mind that this protein bowl is highly customizable, but this version is my absolute favorite. I’ll include a section below with ideas for creating your own customized bowl. Here are all the ingredients you’ll need for this high protein meal:

• Sweet Potatoes: Peeled and cut into similar sized cubes.
• Olive Oil: Helps roast and caramelize the sweet potatoes to give them crispy texture.
• Smoked Paprika: Adds bold smoky flavor.
• Kosher Salt: Adds flavor.
• Lean Ground Beef: I recommend going with 93/7 or 90/10 if you can find it.
• Kinder’s Carne Asada Seasoning: We are huge fans of Kinder’s seasonings, but if you don’t have it on hand, taco seasoning will work just great. We have found Kinder’s seasonings at Walmart, Kroger stores, Costco and on Amazon.
• Water: Used to keep the meat juicy and flavorful.
• Cottage Cheese: I use low fat cottage cheese and it tastes great!
  • PRO TIP: If the texture of cottage cheese is a hang up for you, give it a pulse in the blender before adding it to the bowl! Then you get all the protein and creaminess without the curds.
• Avocados: Adds creaminess and healthy fat.
• Cilantro: Adds fresh herbaceous flavor.
• Black Pepper: Adds flavor and a little heat.
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Welcome to the weekend, my friends! I’m in Arizona for a few days and as I write this, I’m enjoying a cool morning on the porch at a friend’s cabin a few hours north of the already very warm Valley of the Sun. Every time I visit Phoenix, it makes me appreciate the beauty of cooler weather and changing seasons all the more.

Have I mentioned lately how much I love Ohio? I hope I never take for granted what a gift it is to wake up to my favorite place in the world every morning.

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: It’s pasta salad season over here and I’m pretty happy about it. Al dente tiny pasta tossed with generous amounts of cooked shrimp, crunchy fresh vegetables, and a citrus-spiked creamy dressing all combine to make this Shrimp Pasta Salad irresistible. It’s about to become your new summer favorite!

Mozzarella cheese, salami, tomatoes, bell peppers, red onion, and black olives are combined with bite-size pasta and tossed in a tangy, garlicky, vinaigrette to make this Salami Pasta Salad. My boys went a little bit crazy over it the first time I made it.

Oh how I’m loving fresh asparagus right now! Asparagus wrapped in bacon is an impressive-looking side dish that is every bit as awesome to eat as it is to admire on the plate. I could happily make a full meal out of this asparagus.

Tender pasta, shrimp, bacon, and asparagus are tossed with garlic in a creamy sauce to make this irresistible Shrimp Asparagus Pasta. This is a deceptively easy recipe, friends. While the directions look lengthy at first glance, I promise you that this is a quick and straightforward recipe.

With layers of sweet vanilla pudding, sliced bananas, and vanilla wafers tucked under a fluffy layer of whipped meringue, this Old-Fashioned Banana Pudding is a hit every time it is served.

Rich, sweet, and infused with whiskey that has been mellowed by heavy cream, Homemade Irish Cream is dreamy. It’s much more subtle and sophisticated than its commercial counterpart.

And if you’re a fan of Bailey’s Irish Cream: this Irish cream infused Bailey’s Ice Cream is going to make you weak at the knees!

What I’m CRAVING: My friend Christi’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies. If you love chocolate and peanut butter, this recipe is about as good as it gets. I could very happily eat this entire batch myself. These cookies really are THAT good.

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