Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl (Low Carb)

My Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl is a low-carb, high-protein bowl meal inspired by a cottage cheese bowl that went viral on Tik Tok! And I recommend a variety of different sauces that will enhance the taste of the cottage cheese bowls and not add many carbohydrates!

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This Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl is my version of a viral sweet potato and hot honey recipe, and I knew those ingredients wouldn’t be a hit with many of my readers. So I experimented with Kara to make a cottage cheese bowl with low carb taco ingredients!

And we loved the bowl meal we came up with, with perfectly seasoned taco meat, cottage cheese, diced avocado, and diced cherry tomatoes! Kara and I both loved this puree, but the flavor was even stronger when we drizzled it with a sauce that goes well with tacos. So in this post I recommend a few sauce options, and they all add only a few carbs if you use a moderate amount.

And whether you drizzle it with sauce or eat it as you see it in the photos, this cottage cheese bowl meal is low carb, high in protein, and gluten-free. And you can make the meat for Weekend Food Prep and then enjoy this bowl meal a few times a week! I hope you try it soon.

What ingredients do you need for this recipe?

(This is just a list of ingredients; scroll down for the full printable recipe. Or if you want the GO TO RECIPE link at the top of the page, which will take you directly to the full recipe with ingredient quantities.)

What meat did we use for the Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl?

We made the bowl meal you see in these photos with one pound of lean ground beef with 9% fat. If you prefer, you can use ground beef or ground turkey in this recipe.

What carb-free hot sauce did we use?

We tried this cottage cheese bowl with both Green Tabasco sauce (affiliate link) and Cholula Hot Sauce (affiliate link) and both were good. These are both no-carb hot sauces, but use whatever low-carb variety of hot sauce you prefer.

Which cottage cheese did we use?

For the Cottage Cheese Taco Bowls, I highly recommend using full fat Good culture cottage cheese (affiliate link). This brand is not only extra creamy and tasty, it also contains fewer carbohydrates and more protein than most other cottage cheese.

How low in carbs are the Cottage Cheese Taco Bowls?

If you use the ingredients from this recipe and make four bowls, each bowl contains 7 net carbs and 36 grams of protein. If you divide the ingredients into 3 portions as shown in the photos, each bowl contains 9 net carbs and 48 grams of protein. (Kara and I started with the larger bowl, but we both found we would eat more in one sitting.) I’m tagging this recipe as Keto, but for strict Keto you may want to use slightly fewer tomatoes.

How to make the low-carb Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl:

(This is just a summary of the steps for the recipe; scroll down for the full printable recipe. Or if you want the GO TO RECIPE link at the top of the page, which will take you directly to the full recipe.)

1. Heat the olive oil, add the minced meat and break it apart. (I like the Hamburger meat chopper (affiliate link) shown in the photo, but you can also just break the meat apart with a twister.
2. Cook over medium heat, turning often, until the ground beef is brown.
3. Then add Kalyn’s Taco Seasoning Mix (or purchased taco mix), sugar-free hot sauce, Spike herbs (affiliate link) or Salt-free Spike Seasoning (affiliate link) and water.
4. Reduce heat and simmer the meat until the water has evaporated, stirring a few times.
5. (You can make this with thawed Slow Cooker Taco Meat or Instant Pot Taco Meat if you have it in the freezer.)
6. Measure out cottage cheese. I recommend it Good culture cottage cheese (affiliate link), but use your preferred brand.
7. Cut the tomatoes in half and cut the avocado into medium-sized pieces.
8. (If you don’t eat all the taco bowl ingredients right away, chop only as much tomato and avocado as you will use.)
9. While the meat is hot, quickly assemble bowls with ground beef, diced tomatoes, chopped avocado, and cottage cheese.
10. Serve immediately with your favorite taco topping or one of the sauces below.

What sauce can you use to drizzle over the taco bowls?

We loved the taco bowl meal, exactly as you see it in the photos. But Kara and I also enjoyed it with a simple sauce or dressing drizzled over the ingredients. Below are some things we tried. All of these will only add 2 or 3 net carbs if you limit portion size.

• We loved the simple Salsa Ranch Dressing that we made by mixing equal parts together Pace Picante sauce (affiliate link) and Ranch Dressing purchased at the Magic Bullet or food processor. This contains just over 1 carbohydrate per tablespoon.
• The other sauce we loved was Cholula Creamy Sauce, Cilantro Lime (affiliate link), which was tasty and only had 1 carb per tablespoon.
• The first time we worked on the recipe, we loved it with Cafe Rio Salad Dressing, with only 1 carb per tablespoon.
• My recipe for Southwest Ranch Dip would be delicious with the flavors in this bowl, and it is extra low carb, with only 2 carbs in a fourth cup!
• People who like Ranch Dressing on their taco salad can enjoy this with my homemade ranch, which has about 1 carb per tablespoon.
• Roasted Red Pepper Aioli with Garlic contains only 1 carb per tablespoon.
• If you bought another type of low-carb dressing that works well on taco salad, it would also be delicious on these bowls.

Want more bowl meal ideas?

You can check out Bowl Meals to see many more low carb meals served in a bowl!

Suggestions for a low-carb diet / low-glycemic diet / South Beach diet:
If you divide the ingredients of the Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl into four servings, each serving contains 7 net carbs with 36 grams of protein. If you make three servings, each serving contains 9 net carbohydrates and 48 grams of protein. This cottage cheese bowl meal should work for any phase of the Original South Beach Diet as long as you use extra lean ground beef and low-fat cottage cheese and limit the avocado.

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