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Juicy chicken breasts combined with velvety cottage cheese sauce make a high-protein dinner your family will devour!

A creamy and rich cottage cheese sauce for chicken you can make fast with simple ingredients. Read on to learn how!

top view of a skillet with chicken breasts covered with cottage cheese sauce

Creamy Cottage Cheese Sauce

The first recipe I made with cottage cheese was Alfredo sauce. The mild flavor, the velvety texture… my family loved it! So it was a matter of time to use cottage cheese to make this delicious sauce for chicken that will make you drool too!

Cottage cheese is packed with protein, which is great to fill the hungry bellies in my place, but is not only nutritious. It gives the sauce a rich and creamy texture that kicks any dinner up a notch!

And let’s talk convenience. This recipe is everything this busy mom wants: healthy, quick, and made with simple everyday ingredients. While you cook the chicken with cottage sauce, you can prep a simple side and BOOM! An epic dinner in 30 minutes.

Benefits of Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese is becoming more and more popular, but it deserves to be more than a trend. This cheese is high in protein, packed with minerals and amino acids, but is also low in calories, fat, and carbs, resulting a healthier choice compared with other cheeses, like cheddar or mozzarella.

Ingredients

This recipe proves you don’t need anything fancy or complicated to make an epic meal! Before you jump to the recipe card and steps, check out the simple ingredients you need to make this cottage cheese sauce for chicken:

Chicken breasts: butterfly the meat for faster and even cooking.
Salt and pepper: for seasoning the chicken and the sauce.
Olive oil: for cooking the chicken and sautéing the aromatics.
Milk: use any regular or non-dairy milk.
Low-fat cottage cheese: the MVP of this amazing sauce.
Parmesan cheese: because there’s never enough cheese!
Cornstarch: for thickening the sauce.
Onion: makes any meal tastier!
Italian seasoning: adds tons of flavor to this dish.
Garlic: minced garlic cloves add delish flavor and aroma.

Prefer a red sauce? Try my Cottage Cheese Pasta recipe next!

How to Make Cottage Cheese Sauce for Chicken

This superb cottage cheese sauce for chicken breasts comes together easily in 30 minutes. Isn’t it amazing? Learn the process in the following steps and thank me later in the comments:

Prep the chicken
Butterfly the chicken breasts and pat them dry with a paper towel to help the seasonings stick better.
Cook the chicken
Use a large pan to cook the chicken for 4 minutes each side. This sears the meat and locks the juices inside, so don’t move the chicken before those 4 minutes.
Make the sauce
Blend cottage cheese, milk, parmesan, salt, pepper, and cornstarch until smooth.
Cook the aromatics
In the same pan you cooked the chicken, sauté onion and garlic with Italian seasoning. This makes a delicious base for the sauce.
Combine
Pour the sauce into the pan and heat it up while you scrape any tidbits with the spatula. Yummy! Then, place the chicken breasts and bring everything to a simmer. Cook on low for 10 minutes, serve, and enjoy!

What Does Cottage Cheese Sauce Taste Like

Since cottage cheese has a salty, mostly neutral flavor, it absorbs the other ingredients’ flavors. The sauce turns out cheesy thanks to the Parmesan, and infused with the earthy, aromatic flavor from the Italian seasoning herbs.

If this is your first time making this incredible recipe, watch this video so you can see how it looks at each stage of making cottage cheese sauce.

What to Serve with Cottage Cheese Chicken & Sauce

Turn this creamy chicken with cottage cheese sauce into a balanced meal by serving extra nutrition on the side, like pan-seared asparagus, roasted frozen vegetables, or a winter salad. I also love how this recipe pairs with parmesan polenta, cilantro lime rice, southern mashed potatoes or even my cottage cheese mace and cheese. Cozily delicious!

Creamy Cottage Cheese Sauce for Chicken

Servings: 4

Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 20

Total Time: 25

Juicy chicken breasts combined with velvety cottage cheese sauce make a high-protein dinner your family will devour!

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Watch how it’s made:

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts, about 1 ½lbs
Salt & pepper, for seasoning the chicken
2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
½ cup milk
1 ½ cups low-fat cottage cheese
⅓ cup parmesan cheese
¼ teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons cornstarch
½ large onion, chopped
2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
3 cloves garlic, minced

Instructions

Prep:

On a flat surface, butterfly the two chicken breasts into 4 thinner pieces. Pat dry with a paper towel and season with salt and pepper on both sides.

Cook the chicken:

Heat a large pan over medium-high heat. Once hot, add 1 tablespoon of oil and heat it up. Place the chicken breasts in the hot pan and cook, without moving them, for 4 minutes on the first side, then once golden and seared, flip them over and continue cooking for an additional 4 minutes until the chicken breasts' internal temperature reaches 165F. Remove them from the pan onto a plate.

Make the sauce:

For a smooth sauce, blend the cottage cheese with the milk, grated parmesan, salt, pepper, and cornstarch until smooth.
To the same pan over medium heat, add the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil and distribute it in the pan. Add the chopped onion and sauté for 2 minutes, until it's translucent and golden. Add the Italian seasoning and chopped garlic and cook for 30 seconds until fragrant.

Combine:

Pour the blended sauce into the pan and stir to combine with the onion. Use the back of the spatula to scrape any tidbits at the bottom of the pan and combine them with the sauce as you heat it up. Place the chicken breasts in the pan with the sauce and bring it to a simmer. Stir and reduce the heat to low. Cover with a lid and simmer the sauce for 10 minutes.
Serve the chicken with the creamy cottage cheese sauce.