cottage cheese casserole

Today I am going back into my family’s recipe history.

We are making Cottage Cheese Casserole!

You look frightened.

Don’t be frightened…here is why I chose this recipe to make:

Cottage Cheese Loaf

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs. small curd Cottage Cheese
• 5 eggs
• 2 onions {chopped}
• 3 pkg. George Washington Broth {or other vegetable broth seasoning}
• 1/2 c. oil
• 1 c. pecans {chopped}
• 1/2 c. milk
• 8 c. Special K cereal
• 1 1/2 c. grated cheddar cheese

Directions:

I start by putting the onion in the food processor to make it more of an onion sauce.  I then chop the pecans in the food processor until they resemble sand.

I add the onions and nuts to all the other ingredients in a VERY large mixing bowl.

Believe me, you want this bowl large.

Stir it up until it is as blended as these ingredients will get.  Mine looked like this:

Spoon it into a large pyrex dish prepared with PAM.  This recipe is notorious for post-baking pan adhesion {I totally just made that up}, so this is a very important step if you don’t want the baking dish soaking for weeks in your sink.

Bake at 375 degrees.  If you have a casserole that is 1 1/2 inches thick, it will take about 45 minutes.  If it is deeper, then an hour will work.

Mine took an hour.

Use a spatula to cut out Cottage Cheese Casserole squares.

I took this picture, walked out of the room for 2 minutes and when I returned my husband had eaten the entire “row”!

I hope you try this recipe.  It is a family favorite here.

I am working with ConAgra Foods on behalf of PAM in celebration of their New & Improved Cooking Spray.  They were sweet to send me a PAM toolkit {stay tuned because I will soon be offering a similar gift as a giveaway}, PAM promotional items and compensation.

All the opinions and the unusual vegetarian recipe are my own {well, the recipe has been handed down for generations so I can’t take full credit}. You can find PAM on FB or follow along on Twitter with the #PAMPerfection hashtag.

Tagged as: ConAgra, PAM Cooking Spray, recipe, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Recipe