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Cottage Cheese Sardine Bowl with Cucumber and Dill

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Creamy cottage cheese, sardines, fresh dill, thinly sliced cucumber, and everything bagel seasoning. No cooking, five minutes, and somewhere around 30 grams of protein. Better than it has any right to be.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Servings: 1
Course: Main Course
Calories: 380
Ingredients Method Nutrition Notes

Ingredients
  

Ingredients
  • 1 cup full-fat cottage cheese
  • 1 can 4.4 oz sardines in olive oil, drained
  • Half a cucumber thinly sliced
  • 2 tablespoons fresh dill roughly chopped
  • 1 tablespoon everything bagel seasoning
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil from the sardine can works perfectly
  • Juice of half a lemon
  • Black pepper to taste
  • Optional: a pinch of red pepper flakes a few capers, thinly sliced radish

Method
 

Instructions
  1. Step 1: Build the base. Spoon the cottage cheese into a wide, shallow bowl. Don't smooth it flat - a little texture in the surface gives the toppings something to sit in.
  2. Step 2: Add the sardines. Lay the sardine fillets over one side of the cottage cheese. If the fillets are large, break them into two or three pieces with a fork. Leave some visible rather than mashing everything together - the bowl looks better and the texture is more interesting.
  3. Step 3: Add the cucumber. Fan the cucumber slices around the other side of the bowl. Thin is better here - use a mandoline if you have one, or just take your time with a knife.
  4. Step 4: Finish and dress. Scatter the fresh dill over everything. Drizzle with olive oil and squeeze over the lemon juice. Sprinkle the everything bagel seasoning generously across the top. Finish with black pepper and any optional extras.
  5. Step 5: Serve immediately. This doesn't keep well assembled - the cucumber releases water and the seasoning goes soft. Make it fresh each time, which takes about five minutes anyway.

Nutrition

Calories: 380kcalCarbohydrates: 8gProtein: 32gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 6gFiber: 1g

Notes

Use full-fat cottage cheese - low-fat versions are waterier and the bowl ends up thin. Drain the sardines but don't rinse them, and use the oil from the can as your drizzle. Assemble fresh - the cucumber releases water if it sits assembled for more than 15 minutes.
To prep ahead: keep each component separate in the fridge and assemble just before eating. Takes two minutes once everything is prepped.

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