Cottage Cheese Flatbread

This Cottage Cheese Flatbread recipe is an easy homemade flat bread with more than double the protein of traditional pan fried flatbread! Perfect for easy meals and making homemade high-protein flatbread pizza!

 

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

When it comes to adding more protein into your diet, every little bit helps! We love making simple swaps to increase our protein content, and this Cottage Cheese Flatbread recipe has come in SO handy. We love making a big batch (doubling the recipe works great!) and storing them in the freezer for easy grab and go lunches, and they make the BEST easy base for a high protein flatbread pizza!

Cottage cheese flatbreads are a soft, pan-cooked bread made with a yeast dough enriched with blended cottage cheese for extra protein. It’s a beginner-friendly recipe, perfect for people following a high protein diet. The resulting flatbreads resemble traditional flatbreads, with a slightly more elastic dough with a slightly higher moisture content.

This Cottage Cheese Flatbread makes delicious flatbreads that can be served just like naan, pitas, or flatbreads with any Indian dishes, Greek dishes, or Middle Eastern dishes.

There are SO many reasons why we love this cottage cheese flatbread recipe! Here are just a few:

1. They are HIGH in PROTEIN: With 7 grams of protein per flatbread, they are a great alternative to classic or store bought flatbreads – these ones contain more than double the protein in a regular flatbread!
2. They’re VERSATILE: Serve them with your favourite Indian dishes, use them as pizza crusts, serve them next to soups, dips or with your favourite sandwich toppings.
3. They’re CUSTOMIZABLE: Add your favourite dried herbs, onion powder, everything but the bagel seasoning, or Italian seasoning.
4. They’re MEAL PREP FRIENDLY: They keep well in the fridge for 3-5 days or in the freezer for up to three months

Here are some ways we love to serve this cottage cheese flat bread recipe!

1. Soak up all the sauce with these flatbreads when you serve our favourite Dairy Free Butter Chicken or this Easy One Pan Lentil Daal Curry
2. If you’re looking for a appetizer, slice up some of these cottage cheese flatbreads and serve with Roasted Garlic Hummus, Roasted Beet Hummus, or this Garlic Parmesan White Bean Hummus
3. They’re perfect served alongside our favourite Halloumi Salad or this spiced Carrot Ginger Soup
4. We love to use them as pizza crusts and make high protein flatbread pizza with grilled chicken, spinach or arugula, chopped veggies, and mozzarella cheese.
5. Make them extra big and use them like a pita, filling them with your favourite sandwich toppings! We love eating them with mayo, turkey, tomato, and lettuce for a higher protein turkey sandwich on the go!

Want to make the BEST high protein cottage cheese flatbread? Here’s how to do it!

This is a very important step! Well blended cottage cheese offers your flatbreads a nice, silky texture and a moist dough. We prefer using a high power blender to blend the cottage cheese until smooth, but a food processor should work too.

This is a sticky dough. If you spray your hands with a little bit of oil and you resist the urge to add too much flour as you work with it, you’ll be rewarded with an amazing high protein flatbread that’s not too dry.

If you roll your flatbreads too thin they will cook too fast, begin to burn and be very dry. Dough that’s too thin can also tear easily.

Make sure you preheat your pan over medium-high heat before you start cooking the flatbreads. A hot pan helps create air bubbles and the beautiful golden brown spots that give the flatbreads the charred flavour.

If you run into trouble with your homemade cottage cheese flatbread, here are some issues you might encounter and how to fix or prevent them:

If the dough is too sticky to handle, sprinkle more flour, a tablespoon at a time, until the dough is sticky but workable. Make sure there’s not a lot of extra moisture in your cottage cheese before you blend it. You can also spray your hands with a little bit of cooking spray or spray oil to prevent the dough from sticking.

Dry, crumbly dough is the result of too much flour. Make sure you measure your ingredients properly and add more blended cottage cheese or even some water a tablespoon at a time, until the dough comes together.

Make sure you don’t over knead your dough and you cook your flatbreads through, but don’t over cook them.

Make sure your pan is hot enough when you start cooking your flatbreads. If the pan isn’t hot enough, the flatbreads won’t brown and therefore won’t get that classic flatbread texture and colour.

Make sure your cast iron pan is seasoned well (if that’s what you’re using) or you oil the non stick pan just a little bit between each flatbread.

Here’s everything you’ll need to make this delicious homemade cottage cheese flatbread (paid links):

• 2 cups  cottage cheese, blended
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Here’s a list of the basic kitchen equipment you’ll need to make these cottage cheese flat breads (paid links):

• mixing bowls
• measuring cups and spoons
• Pastry Brush
• Blender
• Plastic Wrap
• Large bowl
• cast iron skillet or any heavy-bottomed skillet

We hope you love this cottage cheese flatbread recipe as much as we do! Let us know in the comments below, how would you serve these delicious flat breads? We’d love to know!

• Protein Bagels
• Cottage Cheese Queso
• Protein Smoothie
• Grilled Chicken
• Egg Bites
• Protein Pancakes
• Chicken Orzo Bake
• Easy Skillet Tomato Spinach Frittata
• Baked Chicken Tenders

Watch the video below to see exactly how we make this recipe. You can find many more deliciously simple recipe videos on our YouTube channel!