Toasted bagel is topped with an herbed cottage cheese, heirloom tomatoes, and Parmesan for a perfectly light and healthy breakfast or mid-morning snack.
Herb Cottage Cheese Tomato Sandwich
Have you heard that cottage cheese is making a comeback? I didn’t know it ever went away. But I love cottage cheese – always have. Doritos or corn chips dipped in cottage cheese is the best snack – try it!
I also love cottage cheese in a breakfast casserole, baked ravioli casserole, and spinach casserole, and mixed with herbs on top of a bagel with heirloom tomatoes for this open-faced sandwich.
If you’re looking for new delicious ways to utilize cottage cheese, this little number is a good one. Perfect for a light morning breakfast or afternoon snack.
Ingredients Needed
You only need a few simple ingredients to make this half sandwich.
(Scroll below to the printable recipe card for details and measurements.)
- Cottage cheese – You can use full fat or reduced fat.
- Seasonings – Dried Italian herbs and garlic powder flavor the cottage cheese.
- Heirloom tomatoes – Ripe seasonal Heirloom tomatoes have the best flavor and provide wonderful color contrast.
- Red onion – We LOVE a little thinly sliced red onion on top of the tomatoes.
- Scallion – Provides a subtle onion peppery flavor.
- Parmesan cheese – Sprinkled on top for flavor.
- Black pepper – A few turns of freshly cracked black pepper finish off the sandwich.
- Bagel thins – Plain or “everything” bagel thins, split
Variations
- Don’t like cottage cheese? Use whipped cream cheese instead.
- Use regular beefsteak tomatoes. When Heirloom tomatoes aren’t in season, regular tomatoes are a perfectly fine, too!
How to Make It
This half sandwich couldn’t be easier to make. Simply combine combine the cottage cheese, herbs, and garlic powder. Toast bagels; spread cottage cheese mixture over each half. Layer with tomato and onion. Sprinkle scallions and Parmesan on top and a few grinds of black pepper.
More Healthy Breakfast Ideas:
- Air Fryer Breakfast Pizza
- Hash Brown Avocado Toast
- Just Crack An Egg
- Bagel Egg Boats
- Hash Brown Egg Casserole
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Open-Faced Heirloom Tomato Sandwich
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup reduced fat cottage cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon dried Italian herbs
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 small heirloom tomatoes , sliced
- 2 plain or “everything” bagel thins , split
- 1/4 cup red onion , sliced thin
- 1 scallion , finely diced
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- Black pepper
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine the cottage cheese, herbs, and garlic powder.
- Toast bagels; spread cottage cheese mixture over each half. Layer with tomato and onion. Sprinkle scallions and Parmesan on top and a few grinds of black pepper.
I love this recipe. Very easy and ingredients I always have in my house.
Yummy!
I love cottage cheese and it has never occurred to me to mix it with seasonings! This was delightful.
I could eat bagels like this all day… definitely a recipe I want to make!
Okay, you walk WAY more steps than I do!! WAY. I am so impressed. Apparently writing your thesis is not conducive to walking a lot! GO YOU!
I couldn’t enter the Fitbit contest it wouldn’t let me enter anything.
Would love to win!
thank you I have wanted a fit bit since last Christmas
Glad to know the FitBit is working! Have just started counting calories and it’s a BIG eye opener. Cutting out my sweets has been the hardest; even though fruit is sweet, it’s not the same. Love ‘mater sammiches too. :D
I’m so glad the FitBit is working for you! Exercise and movement makes such a huge difference, doesn’t it?
Very impressive weight loss for you, accomplished by all the exercising and calorie awareness.
Just remember to stay hydrated.
Welcome to the real world of counting calories. Yes, it is an eye opener and makes you think twice about what you want to put in your mouth. Try it with fat, sugar, chemicals, etc. content for more
awareness.
I’ve often put cottage cheese on toast with a little jelly for sweetness. Your post gives me another option with more nutrition. Very good!
I forgot to say, I love that Everything Hurts and I’m Dying t-shirt!
Amy, so happy you only have 2 lbs. left to go! I would love to say that. Someday, perhaps. Just this morning, I made banana nut muffins. So good. But that was breakfast and lunch. I’ll feel guilty tomorrow since today is a holiday and doesn’t count. I love the Heirloom Tomato Sandwich recipe. Next trip to the market, I’ll get the goodies to make this.
Great giveaway! My friends all have some type of fitness tracker. Can’t afford one till I get a job, but it’s on my list. I definitely need an incentive to get out and move.
I have the Fitbit flex, love it but would love to upgrade to the HR wireless! I use it to maintain my weight loss, 30 lbs in 3 years. It keeps me motivated & accountable! Last year my goal was 5 miles a day and this year 6 miles. I am a big walker & biker!
Good work on your accomplishments!
Sweet! Thank you!
Way to go, Amy! My coworker just lost 137lbs – she’s got three to go and actually ate a donut on Friday. We watched her in amazement. She’s been SO healthy for the last year and finally said screw it, I am going to enjoy this. Friends and coworkers swear by Fitbit – I would love the incentive to get me moving during the day.
The sandwich looks delish, BTW.
Fitbit has been soooo good for me and my husband, too! Though sometimes it results in us running around the house trying to beat each other instead of going to bed :) This sandwich looks so awesome!!
10 pounds? Go Amy! My Fitbit keeps me motivated, too… I love the challenges you can do with your friends to keep me getting my pathetic, sedentary rear off of the chair!
Have heard about these, but never took the plunge to purchase. I’m going to be 60 my next birthday and for the last two years I have been eating more healthy and swimming 5 days a week, so feeling pretty good,but sometimes you just need a little motivation. Would love to try it.
Reason #5123 why I’ll never go Paleo: Rice and pie crust. Ok, that was two reasons, but they are both very important to me. Keep up the good work. It gets worse after 50. (Cries even harder). Maybe if we let our hair get really big, people won’t notice that our butts got bigger, too. Nah. Won’t work. Time for a walkie. And hey–if you would get your beagle, you could walk her (or him) and that would be more fun. Just a small suggestion. ;)
Love this!