Cottage Cheese with Cucumber & Dill on Crispbread
Cottage cheese with cucumber and dill on rye crispbread delivers 21 g of protein for 217 kcal — five ingredients, no cooking.
Cottage cheese with cucumber and dill on rye crispbread delivers 21 g of protein for 217 kcal — five ingredients, no cooking, one of the highest protein-to-calorie ratios in this snack rotation.
Ingredients (1 serving)
- Cottage cheese — 150 g
- Cucumber — 60 g
- Dill — 5 g
- Rye crispbread — 2 slices
Macros per serving
- Calories: 217 kcal
- Protein: 21 g
- Fat: 5 g
- Carbs: 22 g
- Fiber: 4 g
Key micronutrients
- Calcium — ~130 mg
- Selenium — ~20 µg
- Phosphorus — ~250 mg
Why it earns a spot in the rotation
- 21 g of protein for 217 kcal is close to a 1:10 protein-to-calorie ratio — hard to beat without a supplement.
- Cottage cheese is a slow-digesting casein-dominant protein, which makes this a reasonable evening or pre-bed snack as well as a daytime one.
- ~130 mg of calcium and ~250 mg of phosphorus from the cottage cheese alone, plus a meaningful ~20 µg of selenium.
- Four ingredients, no prep beyond slicing cucumber — it assembles in under two minutes.
Sources
AgeGen recipes are sourced from the USDA FoodData Central database. Macros are calculated per the ingredient panel; round to the gram.
