Cottage Cheese Baked Eggs with Chimichurri Sauce may sound a bit strange, but I promise it’s delicious. The bright flavors make it feel like a decadent breakfast, but really it’s an easy, healthy way to start the day!
The inspiration for this recipe came from our recent trip to Barcelona. Brunch is a big deal there – may even more so than in the States! How many places have you been that served brunch on a Tuesday until 2p? I was in heaven.
At one particularly cute cafe, Mostassa, I ordered a baked egg dish loaded with cheese, pesto, toasted pine nuts, and arugula. Vegas ordered some kind of sandwich. I won. She took one bite of my dish and said: “you should re-create this at home.”
While I didn’t re-create the exact dish, I did make my own version. The concept was similar – cheesy eggs loaded with herbs. I’d made chimichurri sauce to have on hand for the week. Naturally, that involved putting it on my eggs. The herbs and olive oil are amazing with basically anything!
This version is also a lot lighter than the one I’d had in Barcelona. Contrary to popular belief, we try not to be gluttons in our day-to-day life. For this version, I used a combo of eggs, egg whites, and cottage cheese. That base can be a canvas for anything you’re craving. You could add greens, mushrooms, peppers… anything at all!
Making baked eggs for breakfast may seem ambitious during the morning rush, but it really is do-able! It can be made in advance, or be baking while you get ready in the morning. Let me break it down for you:
Practical Guide to Making an Egg Bake During the Morning Rush:
- Stumble out of bed
- Start coffee and turn on oven
- Allow oven to preheat while showering
- Prepare and put in oven to bake
- Apply make-up/blow dry hair (if you’re a guy, do whatever guys do in the morning)
- Remove from oven
- Allow to cool while getting dressed
- Eat
- Run out the door without forgetting to turn off oven
That’s not so bad, right?
I make batches of the chimichurri sauce for meal prep. You can put it on anything! Try it on roasted veggies, grilled steak, salads… and, of course, eggs.
The thing to remember about chimichurri is that it only gets better with age. If it’s on a table in an Argentinian restaurant, it’s generally in a metal container that it just refilled over and over. Never emptied, washed… don’t be sacred, its part of the experience.
I’m linking up with Deborah and Sarah’s Meatless Monday!
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I’ve actually made something similar before, but even more strange – a Blueberry Basil Egg Bake!
Have you ever made chimichurri sauce? You HAVE to try it!
Do you ever re-create recipes you’d had at restaurants?
Ooh that actually sounds like a great combo but both are items I’m not eating for 1+ weeks. At least I have Pinterest for later =P
LOL! The end is near!
Yummy yummy. This looks quite flavorful and delicious!
I have also been all about eggs lately! Great vegetarian protein source for me. I need to try cottage cheese again I feel like it’s changed since I the 90″s diet days 🙂
I forgot about that fad!!! I got really into it when I was competing because I could get the low-salt version and make it like a cheesecake dessert.
OMG, I bet this is so good and creamy . . I’m making it tomorrow
Let me know how you like it!!!
Nothing better than a good, savory breakfast.
I will be trying this! I love everything about it!
Yay! Let me know how you like it!
anything with avocados and eggs, i am sold!
Same here!
I love using lots of herbs in my cooking! I’m funny about cottage cheese – sometimes I’ll buy & eat it, but then I won’t eat it for a year. I happened to have just bought some last week, and ate it yesterday with pretzels. Ever do that? It’s definitely a strange but good combo!
I do the same thing. I’m eating it a ton lately though! Pretzels sound good!!!
I love me some cottage cheese but only eat it straight out of the container, I’ve never cooked with it, but these Baked Eggs might change that and it’s a recipe from Barcelona, which is even more exciting. So happy you put your own spin on it 🙂 I’m going to try it out some time this week. Have a good week Laura.
You have to try it! It keeps the baked eggs super moist. (Ewwww!)
I’m going to give this cottage cheese egg thing, minus the sauce, a try for A this week. Trying to up her protein a little and she decided she likes cottage cheese again, or at least requested it a couple days ago.
That’s great! You really can’t even tell there’s cottage cheese in it.
I had scrambled eggs at a cafe the other day that were simply perfection. So I knew I had to find out how to get that perfection at home and after a few tries I did it! Full cream milk in the eggs, low and slow cooking and lots and lots of chives mixed in…. Oh yeah!
That sounds amazing!!! Have you tried whipping cream cheese into eggs too? That makes them super creamy too.
I love the “practical” guide to making these in the morning. I would, however, have to insert time for making my kids breakfast, breaking up fights, responding to whining and getting them dressed so…. yes, I can definitely sit down to eat this before 2pm Barcelona brunch ending time!!
But I seriously have all the ingredients for this in my fridge right now so that is a WIN!
I can’t even imagine… but if they’d eat this, it would take care of the breakfast part!
Eggs are the tits but they make me feel like ass. It sucks because they are so friggin’ easy for FAST FOOD. That being said, AVOCADO is 1000% welcome to F my mouth any time it wants!
I’m trying to imagine how that would work… LOL!
Anything else oyu can bake these in besides a ramekin?!
Sure! You could use anything that’s oven proof – maybe divide it between muffin tins?
I’m thinking Barcelona will help with more recipe inspiration. Shall we all go? Yum!!
Yes, please! I’d move there if I could.
As IF I needed another reason to visit Barcelona. But a country that appreciate brunch even more than we do?! SOLD. This looks so yummy! The perfect way to start a day! Or finish it…. I don’t discriminate when it comes to breakfast food!
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I was amazed at how passionate they are about breakfast! It topped the US even!
I don’t think this sounds strange at all. It sounds delicious. My mother-in-law makes a baked egg dish with cottage cheese too, and it’s fantastic. The Chimichurri sauce would be a welcome addition.
Also, whenever I hear Chimichurri, I think of the chim-chimney song from Mary Poppins.