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Preheat oven to 400°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Add cottage cheese and egg white to a blender and blend until completely smooth — about 30 to 45 seconds. The batter should be thin and pourable. If it feels too thick, add a teaspoon of water and blend again.
Pour onto the prepared baking sheet in two small, evenly sized circles — roughly 5 to 6 inches in diameter. Spread into thin, even rounds. The thinner you spread them the crispier the result. Sprinkle your chosen spices over the top.
Bake for 20–25 minutes until the edges are golden and the surface feels set and slightly dry to the touch. They will crisp up further as they cool.
Let cool for 3–5 minutes before filling — this helps them hold their shape when you fold them.
Whisk together the whole eggs, egg whites, and cottage cheese until fully combined. The cottage cheese will break down into the egg mixture.
Heat a non-stick pan over medium-low heat with a little butter or olive oil spray. Pour in the egg mixture and cook low and slow, gently folding rather than stirring.
Pull off the heat while they still look slightly underdone as they will continue cooking from residual heat. Season with sea salt and pepper.
Lay both tortilla shells flat. Divide the scrambled eggs between them. Top each with sliced avocado and finish with a drizzle of chili oil.
Eat immediately.
The Recipe
Makes 2 breakfast tacos | Serves 1 | ~30 minutes total
Tortilla shells only — Calories: 110 | Protein: 15.6g | Carbs: 5.7g | Fat: 2.5g | Fiber: 0.2g
Full breakfast (2 tacos with filling) — Calories: 448 | Protein: 43g | Carbs: 12g | Fat: 24.5g | Fiber: 3.6g
Macros will vary slightly depending on brands used.
Part 1: The Cottage Cheese Tortilla Shells
Ingredients:
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 400°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Add cottage cheese and egg white to a blender and blend until completely smooth — about 30 to 45 seconds. The batter should be thin and pourable. If it feels too thick, add a teaspoon of water and blend again.
Pour onto the prepared baking sheet in two small, evenly sized circles — roughly 5 to 6 inches in diameter. Spread into thin, even rounds. The thinner you spread them the crispier the result. Sprinkle your chosen spices over the top.
Bake for 20–25 minutes until the edges are golden and the surface feels set and slightly dry to the touch. They will crisp up further as they cool.
Let cool for 3–5 minutes before filling — this helps them hold their shape when you fold them.
The most common issue people have is soggy shells — this almost always comes from spreading the batter too thick or pulling them out of the oven too early. Give them the full time and let them cool before filling.
Part 2: The Breakfast Taco Filling
Ingredients:
Instructions:
Whisk together the whole eggs, egg whites, and cottage cheese until fully combined. The cottage cheese will break down into the egg mixture — this is exactly what you want.
Heat a non-stick pan over medium-low heat with a little butter or olive oil spray. Pour in the egg mixture and cook low and slow, gently folding rather than stirring — this gives you soft, creamy curds rather than dry scrambled eggs. Pull off the heat while they still look slightly underdone as they will continue cooking from residual heat.
Season with sea salt and pepper.
Assembly:
Lay both tortilla shells flat. Divide the scrambled eggs between them. Top each with sliced avocado and finish with a drizzle of chili oil.
Eat immediately.
A Few Notes Worth Knowing
Full fat cottage cheese produces a better shell texture than low fat — the higher fat content helps the shell crisp up more evenly and hold together with more structure. I use low fat cottage cheese in the scramble filling where it disappears into the eggs, and full fat for the shells where the texture matters.
These shells do not store particularly well — they are best eaten fresh and warm straight from the oven. The batter, however, can be made the night before and stored in the fridge, making morning assembly faster.
If your shells are turning out soggy rather than crispy, the two most likely culprits are batter that is spread too thick or an oven that is not fully preheated. Give both another look before troubleshooting anything else.
Want to make these dairy free? A dairy free cottage cheese alternative will work in the shells though the texture may vary slightly. Skip the cottage cheese in the scramble and replace with a splash of unsweetened almond milk for creaminess.
Cottage cheese in taco shells. I would not have believed it either. And yet here we are — 43 grams of protein, a breakfast that holds you through the whole morning, and another recipe where cottage cheese did something nobody expected it to do.
The era continues.
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