Snack On These Cottage Cheese Chips - Perspective Portions (2024)

Not your typical way to serve cottage cheese snacks…as a chip. That’s right. Turn a tub of soft and creamy cottage cheese into these crispy keto friendly chips. Satisfy your craving for potato chips with these healthy cottage cheese chips.

When it’s the beginning of January, resolutions are likely on your mind.But with it still being Winter, you probably just want to stay inside, keep warm and do nothing.

I hear that.It’s also the beginning of award show season and there are still sports to watch over the weekend. That means you might be sitting in front of the television for long chunks of time. Just when planning a healthy lifestyle change!

To help reach your health goals, start with small achievable changes. Do you like to have snacks around while you watch t.v.? Are you over indulging in them? Switching out a high fat snacks with a more nutritious option could be a helpful change.

Here are a few ways to improve a traditional snack food, potato chips.

Healthy Alternatives to Chips

Skip the fryer

One way to make chips healthier is to change the cooking method. Use a dehydrator or your oven’s lowest temperature to dry them until crunchy, instead of frying them to a crisp. Some tips on making your own vegetable chips.

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More plant based options

A bag of chips doesn’t HAVE to mean it’s made from potatoes. There are so many other non-starchy vegetables that can be transformed into a crunchy snack too—like beets, kale and carrots . They’ll likely be lower in carbohydrates & calories as well as higher in fiber.

Fruits—like apples, pineapple, watermelon, mango, banana—can be made into a crunchy chips too. These snacks are often freeze-dried to achieve a crispy texture.

Shop Crispy Green, Rhythm Superfoods or Bare for plant based chip options. Or try making your own chips at home, with these Oven Baked Pesto Zucchini Chips orCarrot Veggie Chips recipes.

Cheese chips

But, this one may be a first. These are made out of cheese. Unlike a crispy piece of hard cheese you may have had before, this version is made from cottage cheese.

When cooked,the soft chunky cheese transformsinto a thin crispy chip. It’s low in fat/carbohydrates and higher in protein compared to traditional potato chips. Making these a healthy chips choice. Mix in differentcombinations of spices to customize their flavor.

Making high protein chips from cottage cheese

I’ll admit it, this recipe is a little stubborn. You have to get these three factors exactly right in order for the cottage cheese to properly turn into chips. Once you get the hang of it though, they’re easy (but yes, tedious) to make.

Ingredients

There is only one key ingredient to making these cheese chips, the cottage cheese. Unfortunately not all brands work the same. Their ingredients—including amounts and any additives used— can vary significantly. This probably doesn’t become an issue for most recipes with cottage cheese, but in this one it’s a crucial factor.

Some brands of cottage cheese will work. Some will not.The cottage cheese chips in this post are made from the Trader Joe’s small curd cottage cheese—the one in the pink container, not the fat free or organic options. (Although, you might also be able to use those.)

I recommend reading the comments section (at the bottom of this post and on Youtube) to see what other brands people have tried. Did you try something new? Let us know how it worked out in the comments.

Kitchenware to use

You will need a reliable non-stick pan for this recipe. The cottage cheese not only melts, it adheres to the pan—REALLY well—that you need to peel it off. If your non-stick pan isn’t well coated, the cottage cheese will get stuck to the surface and you won’t be able to remove it properly. Instead ofcheese crisps, you’ll have a stuck on cheese mess to clean up.

This is the frying pan I use to make these. You’ll also need a flexible spatula to help flip the chips.

Amount of heat

Your pan needs to be hot enough to melt the cottage cheese quickly, yet not too hot that it burns it. Cooking over a medium heat works in our kitchen. But this can vary between different ovens.

Check out the video below to see how the cottage cheese needs to bubble.Adjust your heat accordingly.

Chips for dinner?

Enjoy these protein crisps as a snack or use them to replace potato chips in recipes. They add a crunchy layer onto this Tuna Melt Lasagna.

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Cottage Cheese Chips

Yield: 90 chips

Satisfy a potato chips craving with these healthy chips made out of cottage cheese.

Ingredients

• 1 cup small curd cottage cheese Trader Joe's
• ¼ teaspoon pepper butcher ground
• ¼ teaspoon granulated garlic
• ¼ teaspoon onion powder

Instructions

1. In a small bowl mix cottage cheese with the spices.
2. Heat alargenon-stick frying panover medium heat for 1-2 minutes.
3. Scoop ½ teaspoon of the cottage cheese mixture into the pan.Cook for 1-2 minutes. Once the cheese has stopped bubbling, the surface is dry and is starting to brown, use a rubber spatula to lift the edgesfrom the pan. Carefully peel the chip away from the pan. Flip and cook an additional 20-30 seconds.Repeat with remaining batter.

Notes

Make sure to leave space when dropping in the cottage cheese, as these spread.

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Nutrition Information:

Yield: 6Serving Size: 15 chips
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 36Total Fat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 7mgSodium: 79mgCarbohydrates: 2gFiber: 0gSugar: 2gProtein: 3g

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Snack On These Cottage Cheese Chips