Savory Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl

Cottage cheese has spent two years being blended into sweet things, which rather misses what it is good at. Savory, with a jammy egg, tomatoes and plenty of black pepper, it makes a breakfast with 26g of protein and almost no cooking.

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Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups low fat cottage cheese
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup halved cherry tomatoes
• 1/2 cucumber (diced)
• 1 avocado (sliced)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons chopped chives
• 1 teaspoon everything bagel seasoning
• cracked black pepper

Method

1. 1Lower the eggs into boiling water and cook for exactly 7 minutes for a set white and a jammy yolk. Cool under cold running water, then peel and halve.
2. 2Spoon the cottage cheese into the base of two wide shallow bowls and spread it to the edges.
3. 3Toss the tomatoes and cucumber with the olive oil and lemon juice.
4. 4Arrange the dressed vegetables and the avocado over the cottage cheese.
5. 5Set the halved eggs on top and finish with chives, bagel seasoning and a lot of cracked black pepper. Serve cold.

Tips for GLP-1 appetites

• Seven minutes is the number for a jammy yolk. Eight gives you a pale firm one.
• 26g of protein before 9am, which is the hardest meal of the day to get protein into on GLP-1 medication.
• Everything is assembly except the eggs, and those can be boiled the night before.