Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is how my mom made it. SHe added a beaten egg to the cottage cheese along with the parmesan and herbs.

+1 This is how my mom made it without the parmesan. I'm Vietnamese American so I also don't pretend to know how "authentic" Italian food is supposed to be made, lol.

My mom added the egg and herbs.

We were very poor so ricotta was not an option.

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I thought it was a Midwest thing. Ricotta was not available.

Anonymous wrote:My grandma's recipe used cottage cheese in place of ricotta. I don't know why.
I do her recipe but half cottage cheese/ half ricotta because I like the taste and texture better.

Different grandmother, but same recipe. Full cottage cheese and no ricotta. I thought it was the norm until I was in my mid 20s.

Cottage cheese gives the lasagna more depth.

1/2 cottage cheese
1/2 ricotta
2 eggs
fresh basil
fresh garlic
sea salt
2 cups of mozzarella

Would you use cottage cheese in lasagna? Genuinely curious.

Well, the truth is that authentic lasagna doesn't use ricotta - it uses a bechamel sauce.

That said! I think you can just completely sub out cottage cheese for the ricotta (I'd use the small curd with at least some fat) + 1 egg, parmesan, salt, pepper, and herbs.

I have used it in place of ricotta. Mainly because my kids seem really offended by ricotta. I grew up with cottage cheese in lasagna, so I think of it as normal. Clearly, we are not Italian haha.

I have blended it up, like other mentioned. And just mixed it in. The key is to get the 4%, not the skim. The skim is a bit watery.

Anonymous wrote:Cottage cheese 😱

Cottage cheese can be delicious. Ever had the cottage cheese served as part of the meal at L’Auberge Chez Francoise? Yum.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feed the cottage cheese to the dog and purchase ricotta

This.

Can you read?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is how my mom made it. SHe added a beaten egg to the cottage cheese along with the parmesan and herbs.

+1 This is how my mom made it without the parmesan. I'm Vietnamese American so I also don't pretend to know how "authentic" Italian food is supposed to be made, lol.

My mom added the egg and herbs.

We were very poor so ricotta was not an option.

+1 cottage cheese, egg, and herbs is what my mom did also. Now I want to try it, I loved it as a kid.

Is cottage cheese really lower calorie? I always assumed people used it because they couldn't get ricotta. I grew up in TX, and we could not get ricotta at our local grocery store.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is how my mom made it. SHe added a beaten egg to the cottage cheese along with the parmesan and herbs.

+1 This is how my mom made it without the parmesan. I'm Vietnamese American so I also don't pretend to know how "authentic" Italian food is supposed to be made, lol.

My mom added the egg and herbs.

We were very poor so ricotta was not an option.

Cottage cheese 😱

Anonymous wrote:This is how my mom made it. SHe added a beaten egg to the cottage cheese along with the parmesan and herbs.

+1 This is how my mom made it without the parmesan. I'm Vietnamese American so I also don't pretend to know how "authentic" Italian food is supposed to be made, lol.

This is how my mom made it. SHe added a beaten egg to the cottage cheese along with the parmesan and herbs.

I use the cottage cheese as is. No running through a food processor. I started doing it because my mother did it. And she did it because it’s fewer calories. People love my lasagna.