Ricotta

[Labarum]

What do you good folk do with riccotta?

I really don't like cheese, but this is rather different. For my first taste I mixed it with some vanilla flavoured yoghurt and had it with some strawberries. Slightly sweetened, I can take it - rather nice. It was the relatively high protein and calcium content that caught my attention.

[sadie147]

Re: Ricotta

ricotta is a wonderful cheese! I love it.

I usuallyhave it as a desert cheese, some different things i've mixed it with (sweetener is included here too):

cocoa powder
lemon juice
peanutbutter
lime juice
rasperries, blueberries
stewed rhubarb
yogurt
mascarpone

I've also put a couple of tbsn's in my steel cut oats in the morning for the protein, it's really very good.. makes it nice and creamy.

You can also use it for savoury dishes, mixed with spinach, feta, parsley, salt pepper, chopped onion, and stuffed in a boneless skinless chicken breast is very good. Similar to the fililng in spanakopita.

[Oh.2.B.Fit]

Re: Ricotta

There is a YUMMY recipe from the "500 Low Carb Recipes" cookbook with ricotta cheese. I'm Sicilian/Italian so we always used it in alot of pasta dishes Here's one without the pasta from the book

Noodleless Lasagne

1 pound ground beef
1 cup low carb spaghetti sauce
1 can (4oz) sliced mushrooms
1cup ricotta cheese
1 egg, beaten
1 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 tblsp Italian seasoning
20-25 slices pepperoni

Preheat oven to 350*
Brown ground beef, drain fat. Add spaghetti sauce and mushrooms, and simmer for 10 minutes.
In small bowl mix ricotta, egg, 1/4 mozzarella, and Italian seasoning.
Beat well with fork.
Grease an 8x8 baking dish. Spread beef mixture in bottom of dish. Spread ricotta mixture on top of beef. Lay half of the pepperoni on top of ricotta. Put remaining 1 cup of shredded mozzarella over pepperoni, and lay remaining pepperoni on top of the cheese. Bake until bubbly (about 20 minutes).

Per 1/6 Recipe
420 Calories
30g Fat
29g Protein
7g Carbohydrate
1g Dietary Fiber
6g Net Carbs