Cottage cheese biscuits make a wonderful side for the holidays or any day. Want a perfectly crispy outer biscuit that has perfect pockets of flaky buttery goodness on the inside? These herb and bacon cottage cheese biscuits are a quick homemade recipe for an amazingly savory biscuit.
Can you believe in all my years cooking, I never incorporated cottage cheese into a recipe? I thought of it as something my grandma would eat for breakfast, not a crazy healthy and delicious alternative to other dairy options. And cottage cheese biscuits? The thought never crossed my mind.
I’ve been crushing it with cutting out the junk in the ingredient list of the items I am buying. Bonus, the plain cottage cheese used for this recipe was loaded with 19g protein per 5.3oz. That’s before we even get to the fun flavors. And much like cheddar cheese Scones really hit the spot at breakfast time, so do these cottage cheese biscuits.
But how would it hold up as a biscuit?
Pretty darned well, actually. You might even want to try them in this recipe too.
Easy cottage cheese biscuits
I wanted to bump up the flavor, change things up and still create a desirable biscuit (cuz let’s face it, I am a biscuit snob). I tested this recipe three times, improving upon the concept each time before coming to this final version. Bonus for me, they were all pretty darned good.
By adding chopped bacon and fresh herbs from my garden I was able to make these biscuits tasty. You can change the herbs up with whatever you have fresh on hand. I love thyme, rosemary, or chives as a great starting base. Mix and match with whatever you have in your garden.
Consider omitting the bacon altogether and using one of the fruit flavors, like peach or strawberry to create sweet biscuits perfect for breakfast with fresh jam. This recipe is a classic biscuit that can act as the starting point for so many variations! Thyme blueberry cottage cheese biscuits with lemon curd may just have to happen.
Tips for better biscuits
Truth be told, biscuits are one of those notorious recipes, so simple to make, so hard to get right. So it always helps to have a few extra handy bits of advice from those who’s trials and errors have driven them crazy… But luckily found cure and redemption through the process.
First off, make sure to use super cold butter. You can even take frozen sticks of butter and use a coarse setting on a grater. Be careful and grate on the short side to create little bits of butter.
Remember this, even if you forget everything else, including your BFF’s birthday. The colder the butter, the better the biscuit will rise. The steam from the heating butter in the biscuit make all the difference.
If possible, then give your flour a quick sift. Without a proper sifter, you can use a fine screen strainer and just shake it through.
Finally, don’t over mix the ingredients. You want those pea sized chips of butter to stay that way. Don’t feel like you have to knead it out like you are making pizza dough.
What is the best flour to use for biscuits?
In actuality, the best flour to use for biscuits is the one sitting hopefully right now in your pantry. Really, you can make a great biscuit with any flour. In fact, the coldness of the butter and the other ingredients are more important than the type of flour.
So you can use bleached or unbleached, all purpose or plain flour, whole wheat or whatever. The whole wheat is a bit heavier, but you can always use a half and half portion with whole wheat and regular. That is a good way to keep from making a biscuit that doubles as a hockey puck.
Unless of course you are a hockey player. In which case, put the biscuit in the basket any way you like.
What is cottage cheese exactly?
If you want to make cottage cheese biscuits, then it helps to know what cottage cheese actually is. Cottage cheese goes back a few thousand years, but the term “cottage” only came around in the 19th century.
Remember Little Miss Muffet, eating her curds and whey? Well, she just happened to be eating cottage cheese. Most likely with peaches in it but that is just a hunch. Cottage cheese is also known as curds and whey. It is an un-aged fresh and soft cheese curd kept in its own whey. Cream is also added, which is known as “dressing.”
Have you worked with cottage cheese before or do you eat it right out of the package? I have some fun ideas for combining a few of the other flavors into savory recipes as well. I’d love to hear how you use it in the comments below.
Looking for more breakfast ideas to blow their socks off with? These will set them to begging for more!
- Blueberry Cheddar Breakfast Sausage
- Easy Breakfast Enchiladas with Salsa Verde (aka, green sauce)
- Overnight Ham Breakfast Strata
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Herb and Bacon Cottage Cheese Biscuits
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tbs baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 – 3 strips of bacon cooked and crumbled
- 2 tsp fresh thyme removed from the stems
- 1 tsp freshly crushed black pepper large grind (or 1/2 teas regular black pepper)
- 6 tbs cold butter
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 – 1 1/4 cup Cottage Cheese
- 1 tsp milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425
- Toss the flour, baking soda baking powder, salt, bacon, black pepper, and thyme together in a large bowl.
- Dice the cold butter into small cubes, and with your fingers rub into the flour mixture, creating pea sized portions of butter.
- Add the cold buttermilk and cottage cheese and with a wooden spoon, mix until just combined.
- Cover the bowl and place in the fridge for 20 to 30 minutes to allow everything to cool and come together.
- Dust a work surface with a little flour and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Fold the dough out and work into a 1 1/2 thick disc. Cut out six 2 1/2 – 3 1/2″ biscuits and arrange on the baking sheet. Brush the tops with milk.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until golden brown and cooked through.
- Allow to cool for a few minutes before serving warm.
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can these be frozen and and baked later?
Hi Jackie, that is a great question. I don’t see why, after baked, a good freeze wouldnt keep them good. Id reheat in an oven after thawing when ready to nibble on the next one. May lose a bit of freshness, but Id guess, nothing extra butter couldn’t fix.
Please let me know if you try.
These herb bacon cottage cheese biscuits look so addicting! Switching up the herbs sounds like a great way to play around with these biscuits. As for cottage cheese, I’ll take it by the spoon or in a delicious recipe like this one!
These look like the most incredible biscuits!
Herbs? Bacon? Cottage cheese? Biscuits?! GIMME!