Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl with Caramelized Bananas

This Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl is a great high protein weekday breakfast bowl with caramelized bananas, oats and slivered almonds.

This cottage cheese breakfast bowl is cozy, lightly sweet, and secretly packed with protein—aka the kind of breakfast that actually keeps you full. Bananas are sliced and caramelized in butter with brown sugar and cinnamon until soft and glossy, then spooned over a creamy cottage cheese base that’s been mixed with honey and a touch more cinnamon.

The warm bananas, a drizzle of that brown sugar butter, hearty oats, and chopped almonds all pile on top for the perfect mix of creamy, caramelized, and crunchy. These bowls are ideal for meal prep and make mornings feel a little special while still being a balanced, high-protein breakfast you’ll want on repeat.

These caramelized bananas are pure magic for how simple they are—soft, buttery, and coated in a warm brown sugar–cinnamon glaze that turns almost saucy in the skillet. They’re incredible spooned over toast, swirled into breakfast bowls like this one, or piled onto oatmeal, but don’t stop there—they’re also unreal over vanilla ice cream for an easy, cozy dessert moment.

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Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl with Caramelized Bananas

This Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl is a great high protein weekday breakfast bowl with caramelized bananas, oats and slivered almonds.

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Ingredients

Serves 1 bowl

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The cottage cheese base:

• ▢ 1 cup Cottage Cheese
• ▢ 1/8 cup Maple syrup or honey More if you want it sweeter
• ▢ Dusting of cinnamon 

The bananas:

• ▢ 2 bananas
• ▢ 3 tsp butter
• ▢ 1 tbsp brown sugar
• ▢ 1 tsp cinnamon

Instructions 

• Prepare the bananas: Melt butter in a pan and peel bananas. Slice bananas in half lengthwise and widthwise. Once butter is melted, add banana slices and top with brown sugar and cinnamon. Cook on medium to low heat, moving around with a spatula to keep them from sticking. Gently flip the bananas and cook for another minute on the other side until bananas are softened and golden brown. Transfer to parchment paper.
• Combine honey/maple syrup, cottage cheese and cinnamon in a bowl. 
• Add bananas and spoon over a little of that cinnamon butter overtop. Sprinkle with oats and slivered almonds. Enjoy! 

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