Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl with Grilled Fruit
Grilled Fruit Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl: Delicious, high protein, fresh summery cottage cheese breakfast bowl paired with grilled fruit. This amazing breakfast bowl is loaded with flavor, protein, fiber and more.
Serve with Triple Berry Muffins and an Iced Vanilla Latte for a great start to your day.
Why Make These Breakfast Bowls
There are so many reasons to make these bowls:
- They taste great. So much flavor and texture, plus visually appealing, these bowls are just so much fun.
- They are easy and convenient. Every ingredient is easy to find, and this is almost just an assemble and go recipe. The hardest part is grilling the fruit, which isn’t tough at all.
- They are nutritious. There are so many health benefits of eating cottage cheese. Cottage cheese provides your body with calcium and high quality protein. The fruit offers tons of fiber to help with lowering your risk of heart disease. And nuts are healthy fats. Plus more!
Grilled Fruit
Grilling fruit makes it taste SO good, it transforms its flavor and texture, and enhances its natural sweetness, adds depth to the taste, and is just plain fun. Adding it to the breakfast bowl is always a good idea. Here is why grilling fruit makes it taste so good:
- Caramelization: The natural sugars in the fruit will caramelize due to the heat, creating a rich and slightly smoky flavor. You get intensified sweetness, and delightful flavor contrast in your cottage cheese bowl.
- Enhanced Juiciness: Grilling fruit helps to concentrate its natural juices, and releases the moisture, so you are going to end up with a rich, juicy fruit, and those juices soak into your cottage cheese bowl, making it even more flavorful!
- Flavor Infusion: Grilling imparts a subtle smoky flavor to the fruit, and makes it more complex. It is a simple way to enhance the flavor of your breakfast bowl without doing a lot of work.
- Texture Transformation: Grilling fruit slightly softens its texture, making it easier to eat, and often mellows the flavor of especially tart fruits, making it more palatable, and easier to eat.
- Versatile: Grilled fruit pairs exceptionally well with so many things, including these cottage cheese bowls. The smoky and sweet flavors are so fun!
- Visual Appeal: Grilled fruit is pretty, and we eat with our eyes first, so it just makes this breakfast even more enticing and visually appealing.
PRO TIP: Not all fruits are suitable for grilling, however, stone fruits like peaches, plums, nectarines work well, as does pineapples, watermelon, plums, and even citrus fruits.
Grilling fruit is a fantastic way to elevate its taste and create addition to your breakfast bowl.
What You Need to Make Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowls
Making these simple breakfast bowls is just that…simple. The ingredients are easy to find and easy to customize, here is what you need:
- Cottage cheese: Any curd, any type of fat content. You can also make some substitutions like ricotta or yogurt, but the texture and taste will be different.
- Grilled Fruit. Stone fruit, pineapple, even watermelon, are all great grilled.
- Berries: Blueberries, Raspberries, Strawberries. The perfect way to add color, and freshness to your bowl, they all pair super well with cottage cheese.
- Nuts or Nut Butters: Nuts and nut butters add a great deal to the bowls, from healthy fats, to a satisfying crunch, and even some sweetness.
- Rolled oats: I love this addition as it is a great way to help add fiber to your diet, add texture to the bowl, and keep you full longer.
- Coconut: Flakes of dry coconut can make a big difference in the flavor and texture, and are a nice addition.
- Honey: Sweeten things up a little with a drizzle of honey or maple syrup on top!
How to Make Breakfast Bowls with Cottage Cheese
Intro of how to make recipe and description of broad overview
Step One: Grill the Fruit
- Pre-heat grill to 350-400°F
- Prepare the fruit: Wash and dry the fruit thoroughly. Remove any stems, pits, or seeds as needed. Cut larger fruits, such as pineapples or watermelon, into slices or wedges for easy grilling.
- Lightly spritz fruit with oil to keep it from sticking to grill grates and aid in caramelization.
- Place the fruit directly on the preheated grill grates. Cook for a few minutes on each side, rotating if necessary, until grill marks appear and the fruit becomes slightly tender. The cooking time will vary depending on the type and thickness of the fruit.
- Once the fruit is grilled to your desired level of caramelization and tenderness, carefully remove it from the grill using tongs or a spatula.
Step Two: Assemble the Bowl
Add a cup of cottage cheese, slices of grilled fruit, berries, chopped nuts, coconut, chia seeds, oats, etc.
Step Three: Enjoy
Now you get to eat and enjoy this lovely creation.
Tips and Tricks
Making this recipe is Eazy Peazy, but here are a few fun tips and tricks:
- Amp it up even more: To make this breakfast bowl even more filling, melt some nut butter in the microwave and drizzle it on top.
- Customize to your preference: One of the fun things about these breakfast bowls is topping them, so experiment with different types of fruit to grill, like stone fruits (plums, peaches, pears, nectarines), add various nuts, berries, oats, seeds, and more. Find your favorite combination.
- Texture: My kids aren’t the biggest fans of the cottage cheese texture, so one trick I have learned is to blend it with yogurt, until it is smooth. Then I assemble the bowls. You get a creamier texture and still all the yummy, nutrition benefits.
- Prep ahead: If you’re short on time in the morning, this is a simple one to make and go, because it is really just assembly once the fruit is grilled. So grill your fruit ahead of time, chop your nuts, and anything you want to put on top, and have it ready to go. Then you have breakfast in no time the next day.
- Diet friendly: You can adjust for a number of dietary preferences, for example, this is a great vegetarian option, but you can easily make it gluten free by swapping the oatmeal for a gluten-free version, or leaving it off.
Make Ahead and Storage
How to make this recipe ahead of time:
Simple prep the ingredients for this recipe the night before and assemble in the morning.
Grill your fruit ahead, and refrigerate in an airtight container. Some of the juices will leak out of the fruit, but it will still be a great addition to this quick and easy breakfast option.
Substitutions
If you’re looking for substitutes for cottage cheese in a breakfast bowl, here are some options:
- Greek Yogurt: Greek yogurt is delicious, popular, and a versatile substitute for cottage cheese with a similar protein content. Opt for vanilla, honey, or plain or flavored Greek yogurt, depending on your taste preferences.
- Ricotta Cheese: Ricotta cheese has a similar creamy texture to cottage cheese, although it is slightly smoother. It makes for a great substitute, and is mild and slightly sweet.
- Quark: Quark is a type of fresh cheese with a creamy texture, similar to cottage cheese. It has a slightly tangy taste and is commonly used in breakfast bowls or as a spread. Quark is particularly popular in European cuisine.
- Cashew Cheese: For a dairy-free option, cashew cheese can be a suitable substitute. Made from soaked and blended cashews, it provides a creamy texture and can be drizzled with honey or maple syrup making is a nice addition to your breakfast bowl.
These substitutes will have a slightly different flavor and texture, so consider your personal preferences and dietary needs when selecting the best alternative for your breakfast bowl.
Other Great Recipes:
- Cottage Cheese Pancakes
- Cottage Cheese Smoothie Bowl with Berries
- Honey-Lime Drizzled Cottage Cheese Stuffed Pears
- Grilled Breakfast Nectarines with Greek Yogurt, Granola, and Honey
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Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl with Grilled Fruit
Ingredients
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1 cup berries blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, sliced
- 1 cup grilled fruit peaches, pineapple, plums, citrus
- ¼ cup almonds sliced
- ¼ cup rolled oats
- 2 Tbsp raw honey optional
- 1 Tbsp coconut flakes
- 1 tsp chia seeds
Instructions
Grill fruit
- Pre-heat grill to 350-400°F
- Prepare the fruit: Wash and dry the fruit thoroughly. Remove any stems, pits, or seeds as needed. Cut larger fruits, such as pineapples or watermelon, into slices or wedges for easy grilling.
- Lightly spritz fruit with oil to keep it from sticking to grill grates and aid in caramelization.
- Place the fruit directly on the preheated grill grates. Cook for a few minutes on each side, rotating if necessary, until grill marks appear and the fruit becomes slightly tender. The cooking time will vary depending on the type and thickness of the fruit.
- Once the fruit is grilled to your desired level of caramelization and tenderness, carefully remove it from the grill using tongs or a spatula.
Assemble
- In a bowl, add cottage cheese, and top with the berries, grilled fruit, nuts, rolled oats, etc. and then drizzle with honey and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Our recipe card software calculates these nutrition facts based on averages for the above ingredients, different brands, and quality of produce/meats may have different nutritional information, always calculate your own based on the specific products you use in order to achieve accurate macros for this recipe.
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