Cottage Cheese Breadsticks

These cottage cheese breadsticks are easy to make and are low carb and high protein. If you miss bread on a low carb diet or just want to increase your protein intake, these delicious breadsticks will satisfy your cravings and keep you on tract. Each one has just 8.2 net carbs and 9.9 grams of protein!

You might also like this cottage cheese chocolate mousse.

Lately cottage cheese is all the rage as is increasing protein in your diet. While it may be annoying to see it everywhere I do try to eat low carb, love try new recipes and I went to a nutritionist who informed my I needed to eat more protein.

So with that in mind I created the lower carb high protein cottage cheese breadsticks. They came out a really good! I made them the first time with all purpose flour and even my husband loved them. Then I decided I’d cut some of the carb out by using half almond flour and I was really happy with the results.

This is just a basic recipe and I’ll give you ideas below on how you can add spices and seasonings to make it your own. All in all if you are not gluten free and want to eat a lighter bread options, give these protein breadsticks a try. And I also have a keto cottage cheese flatbread recipe similar to this.

Recipe ingredients and substitutions.

The simple ingredients I used for this recipe was cottage cheese, all purpose flour, almond flour, baking powder, salt, butter, parmesan cheese and garlic.

Good Culture Cottage Cheese
You can use any brand of cottage you like but I love Good Culture. It’s low in carbs, tastes great and has live and active cultures. Daisy is another brand that happens to be low carb too but I have also used Aldi’s brand. Also I used full-fat cottage cheese but you can use any type.

Almond Flour and All Purpose Flour
If you don’t care about carbs you can go ahead use all white flour in this recipe with great results. The carbs will be much higher and the protein just a little lower. The ½ and ½ combination worked good for my macros and tasted great so that is why I did that.

I imagine if you want to use gluten free flour that you would want to add a bit of xanthan gum or something like that to make it have a more bread like texture since there is no gluten. And if you use all almond flour it would work but not be as good. It would be lower carb though and bit of extra protein from the almonds.

Fresh Garlic, Butter & Parmesan Cheese
I added these just to make these more like a garlic bread stick. You can completely eliminate them or add your own twist. You can also try other cheese like cheddar cheese or asiago cheese.

I’ve made these with everything bagel seasoning and they were great. Some other spices that would be nice are Italian seasoning, garlic powder, rosemary, lemon zest, hot pepper flakes, etc.

How to make cottage cheese breadsticks.

Step 1: Preheat oven to 375°F. Get out a cookie sheet and line with a sheet of parchment paper or a silicone mat. Spray the parchment with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.

Step 2: Get out a medium size mixing bowl and add the almond flour, all purpose flour and baking powder. Mix together.

Step 3: Next add 1 cup of cottage cheese and start mixing with a spoon. This will get you only so far, so after awhile you will want to use hand and try to get the cheese curds to break down and mix with the flour. Keep at it and it will eventually get there. I would not add extra cottage cheese though.

You can also do this in the food processor. Just slowly pulse it until it all comes together. This is what it looks like when it done being mixed by hand.

Step 4: Cut the dough into 6 pieces and roll each into a ball. The take each on and roll into a long shape like those pictured below. Place them on the prepared baking sheet.

Step 5: Add the butter to a small bowl and microwave for 30 seconds to melt. Then add the crushed garlic. Brush the butter mixture on the breadsticks and top with freshly grated parmesan cheese. I used about ¼ cup of cheese but you can use more or less.

Note if you want to use garlic powder, 1 clove of garlic equals ¼ teaspoon garlic powder.

Step 6: Place in the preheated oven and bake for 30-40 minutes until golden brown. Mine took 30 minutes. Cooking time may vary depending on how big or thick your make your breadsticks.

When done take out and cool before eating. Store leftovers in an airtight container or ziplock bag. Please scroll down to view the printable recipe card.

These were really tasty and filling to me. Because they seem to spread a bit, you could even cut them like a bagel and use them as a hot dog or hoagie bun. I just ate them as is. As you can see in the picture below the texture is very bread like.

What to eat with these.

These cottage cheese bread sticks would go nicely with a bowl of soup, a big salad or even a typical Italian dinner. Here are a few of my favorite recipes to eat with these bread sticks.

• easy tortellini and meatball soup or creamy tortellini soup
• pasta fazool (e fagioli ) or Italian wedding soup
• Italian antipasto salad or low carb sub salad
• low carb Big Mac salad or keto Philly cheesesteak salad
• low carb homemade Italian sausage or keto cabbage sheet pan lasagna

Well I hope you like these low carb high protein cottage cheese breadsticks as much as I did. I even froze a few to heat up for lunch sometime. I can’t wait to play around with the seasonings! Enjoy!

Cottage cheese has such a high protein content so if you want to use it in more ways, check out all of me cottage cheese recipes. Some sweet, some savory and all our low carb and high protein.

The nutritional information for 1 stick is 160 calories / 9.7g carbs / 1.5g fiber / 9.9 grams of protein = 8.2g net carbs