Easy Cottage Cheese Egg Bites

Yellow egg bites with cottage cheese in a grey muffin tin, sprinkled with chopped chives.

5 from 3 votes

Easy Cottage Cheese Egg Bites

These high-protein cottage cheese egg bites are packed with turkey bacon, cheddar and peppers. Perfect for meal prep, no blender needed and freezer-friendly.

Prep Time5

Cook Time20

Total Time25

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: British

Servings:

Calories: 225kcal

Author: Mimi Harrison

Cost: £1.10

Ingredients

150 g turkey bacon (£2.50)
8 eggs (£1.50)
2 romano peppers, finely diced (£1.55)
300 g cottage cheese (£0.90)
100 g cheddar, grated (£2.50/2= £1.25)
3 spring onions, thinly sliced (£0.60)
2 tbsp fresh chives, finely chopped (£0.52)

Cupboard Essentials

Oil Spray
Salt
Pepper

Metric - US Standard

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 200°C/400°F.
To a foil-lined air fryer basket, add your turkey bacon. Add a few sprays of oil and cook at 200°C/400°F for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk the eggs and cottage cheese together. Once thoroughly mixed, stir the Romano peppers, spring onions, 1 tbsp fresh chives and two-thirds of the cheddar. Season with salt and pepper.
Spray a muffin tin with oil, then add a few spoonfuls of the egg mix into each hole, leaving about ½ cm from the top to allow some rise.
Top with the remaining cheddar and bake for 12-18 minutes, or until the egg is fully set.
Let rest for 10 minutes and finish with a sprinkle of fresh chives and a crack of black pepper.

Notes

For the best texture, stick with low-moisture veggies like the ones I’ve used.
A generous pinch of salt and pepper before the egg mixture hits the muffin tray makes all the difference in taste.
Give your egg bites 10 minutes to cool in the tin—they’ll firm up and release easily without falling apart.

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