Greek Salad with Cottage Cheese Instead of Feta

Name: Greek Salad with Cottage Cheese Instead of Feta
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: Home cooking
Ingredients: Cottage cheese 5% (tvorog) — 160 g; Tomatoes — 100 g; Cucumbers — 100 g; Bell peppers — 40 g; Red onion — 15 g; Black olives — 20 g; Olive oil — 10 ml; Lemon — 10 g; Dried oregano — 1 g; Whole-grain bread — 30 g; Salt — 1 g; Ground black pepper — 0.5 g

Tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper, olives and red onion, as in a Greek salad, but with crumbly cottage cheese instead of feta. More than 25 g of protein per serving.

Time: 10 min
Serving: 440 kcal
Ingredients: ≈ $3.01
Protein: 33 g

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Greek Salad with Cottage Cheese Instead of Feta

Ingredients

1 Cottage cheese 5% (tvorog)pack 300 g ≈ $2.80 160 g
2 Tomatoes≈ $4.67 per kg 100 g
3 Cucumbers≈ $3.67 per kg 100 g
4 Bell peppers≈ $6.00 per kg 40 g
5 Red onion≈ $3.00 per kg 15 g
6 Black olivespack 300 g ≈ $2.50 20 g
7 Olive oil 10 ml
8 Lemon≈ $4.70 per kg 10 g
9 Dried oregano 1 g
10 Whole-grain breadpack 350 g ≈ $2.17 30 g
11 Salt 1 g
12 Ground black pepper to taste

Grey rows are pantry staples: salt, oil, spices. They are not counted in the serving price.

Method

Cut tomatoes² into large chunks, cucumber³ into half-moons, bell⁴ pepper into strips, and red⁵ onion into thin half-rings.
Whisk together olive oil, lemon⁸ juice, oregano, salt, and black⁶ pepper for the dressing.
Toss the vegetables and olives with the dressing, let sit for 3 minutes to draw out juices, then mound onto a plate.
Roughly crumble the cottage¹ cheese with a fork and scatter over the top. Serve immediately with slices of whole¹⁰-grain bread.

Tips

Why it works: Let the dressed vegetables stand for 3 minutes: the tomato and cucumber give juice, which blends with the oil and lemon into a sauce.
Substitutions: Use soft cottage cheese or ricotta, 160 g, instead of the 5% cottage cheese. Green olives can replace the black ones.
Common mistakes: Cottage cheese turns to paste if you stir it into the vegetables. Put it on top at the very end.
Storing and reheating: Eat it right away: the vegetables give juice and the salad turns watery within an hour. Keep the cottage cheese separate in the fridge.
Serve with: Serve with a slice of whole-grain bread to mop up the juice.

In short

Marked healthy: the planner picks it more often for the goals “lose weight” and “eat well”.

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Nutrition

Per serving and share of 2000 kcal

Calories	440 kcal	22%
Protein	33 g	44%
Fat	22 g	32%
Carbs	28 g	11%
Per 100 g	90 kcal

Cost

≈ $3.01per serving

Average supermarket prices, BLS (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), October 2026. Your store will differ: products come in packs and each chain sets its own prices. The priciest item here is cottage cheese 5% (tvorog).