Ricotta Spinach And Cheese Cups

[ShannonK 266]

I love cooking shows! My husband calls it food porn Regardless, I get great ideas, then tweak them to be what I like. I will be the first to tell you I am NOT a foo foo cook (I love to watch it, but have you priced saffron threads??) Anyway - I don't even cook with raw onion or shallots - I use the ground up stuff from my spice cabinet....and no one has complained yet...and it simplifies my life....

So on with my latest and greatest!

Preheat oven to 350

Spray your muffin tin - I have a 6 cup tin that works great for this - regular size muffins...

In a bowl mix

1 small container ricotta (I used part skim)

1 small container cottage cheese (drain moisture off - I use paper towels, use a cheese cloth if you have one)

half cup mozzerella

half cup of the REAL shredded parmesan - not the white powder out of a can (see - I can be a food snob!)

I package of minced spinach (I used the steam in a bag stuff from HEB, then SQUEEZED the heck out of it with paper towels!)

1 large egg yolk

some onion salt

garlic powder

Mix well

Spoon into muffin tin, top with some provolone (I love cheese! - can be mozzerella if you want)

Bake for about 35 minutes - watch you cheese on top - no burning!!

Let set for about 7 minutes and enjoy!

I am almost a month out of surgery and eat almost a full muffin tin - but not quite -

So yummy!

I know someone smarter than me will plug it into your online doomahickie and tell me the Protein and calories...each portion is about 4 oz. I did have some mix left over.....my dog loved it too!

Enjoy!

[Willow216 91]

Stealing this one! (hope you don't mind) LOL And your husband is sooo correct the food Network should be re-named "Food Porn"! I love that channel.

[LauraTarry 25]

Looks good Shannon!! gotta try this one... eventually, when I can have food again!

[minigoddess 18]

I checked with nutrition data.com and It looks like this is the breakdown.

Protein 29 g,

Carbs 10 g (11 g.)

Sugars 3g.

Sodium 785 mg. (752 mg.)

Fat 15 g.--saturated fat 9 g.

Fiber 2 g (1 g.)

Cholesterol 84 g.

The difference is that I used onion powder not onion salt, based on recipe I used 12 oz. cottage cheese-1 % and 15 oz. ricotta part skim. Also sprinkled tops with a wee bit of Parmesan. The numbers in parenthesis are the data using 2 cups of fresh zucchini or yellow summer squash grated-instead of the spinach(my garden runneth over--ha ha )

I hope this was helpful

[griega232 23]

I'm in on this, thanks sounds sooo good, I'm two weeks out tomorrow and dying to try food lol

[CelticHarpist 26]

Oh, yum. And look at all that Protein. This is a gotta try. Thanks for posting!

[susanfaye 162]

These were amazing! The family loved them too!

[CNTWT2BMINIME 78]

I want to try these just to see if I can get my boys to eat spinach!

[susanfaye 162]

I want to try these just to see if I can get my boys to eat spinach!

My youngest son looked tortured when I told him there is spinach in them. By the second bite he was asking for seconds!

[Cookeeeeez 269]

I use same recipe for lasagne, using cheese mix instead of bechamel...

Try adding half a teaspoon of nutmeg... Yum!!!! Oh and I cut up silverbeet and steam it if I want more texture than the frozen spinach