Cottage Cheese Pizza Crust

This cottage cheese pizza crust is high protein, super simple, and so tasty! It has absolutely everything you love about traditional pizza crust with a little nutrition boost. Make this easy recipe for your next pizza night!

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Why you’ll love this

There are so many reasons to love this cottage cheese pizza crust- here are just a few!

• You only need two simple ingredients: This cottage cheese pizza dough calls for two main ingredients, cottage cheese and self-rising flour. That’s it! I like to also add garlic powder and Italian seasoning for more flavor, but I promise it’s delicious even without it.
• Easy: This homemade dough is just as good as regular pizza dough except it’s so much easier. All you have to do is mix the ingredients together and roll it out. There’s no waiting around for the dough to rise. Super simple.
• Higher protein: Because this dough is made with high protein cottage cheese, each two slice serving of pizza ends up having 24 grams of protein!
• Delicious: This pizza crust doesn’t taste like cottage cheese at all, it’s just delicious! When topped with sauce and cheese it has all of the classic pizza flavor that you know and love.
• Family favorite: Not only will your whole family love this one, but it’s so much fun to make homemade pizza. Once you make the crust you can top it with all of your favorite pizza toppings and flavors.

I’ve made a ton of cottage cheese recipes and this one is hands down one of my favorite recipes, especially when you’re getting hit with pizza cravings! It’s simple, it’s delicious, and it packs a little bit of extra nutrition which is always a bonus.

Ingredients

Ingredients

1. Cottage cheese: You’ll need cottage cheese, of course! I recommend full-fat cottage cheese over fat-free for the best flavor and texture. My favorite brand is Good Culture. You can also make this same two ingredient dough with Greek yogurt.
2. Self-rising flour: Self-rising flour is just all purpose flour with baking powder and salt added. It’s the key ingredient to two-ingredient doughs! If you don’t have any you can use regular flour and add 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/4 tsp salt per cup of flour.
3. Garlic powder and Italian seasoning: This crust is great even without these seasonings, but I like to add them for extra flavor.
4. Mozzarella cheese: You can use any shredded cheese that you usually like for pizza. I like to use mozzarella and then sometimes sprinkle different sharper cheeses on top like parmesan cheese or feta cheese.
5. Pizza sauce: Use your favorite pizza sauce or marinara sauce, any will work!
6. Turkey pepperoni slices: This is optional of course, but I’m a big fan of a few slices of turkey pepperoni.

You can also use any of your favorite pizza toppings that you like. Here are a few of my other favorites:

• Parmesan cheese
• Red pepper flakes
• Sliced bell pepper
• Sliced red onion
• Black olives
• Baby spinach
• Sliced mushrooms
• Shredded leftover chicken breast
• Chopped bacon
• Fresh greens and herbs like fresh basil or arugula tossed in dressing (add after baking)

How to make cottage cheese pizza crust

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

2. In a medium bowl, add cottage cheese and self-rising flour. Mix with a wooden spoon and then finish with clean hands and form the dough into a ball. Note: it will be a little bit sticky! If it feels way too sticky and unmanageable, coat your hands with a small amount of flour and continue to form into a ball. Repeat if necessary, adding a very small amount of additional flour at a time.

3. Next, lightly flour some parchment paper. First press the dough flat with your hands and then roll the dough out into a pizza shape with a lightly floured rolling pin. The dough should be quite thin (like a thin crust pizza) but still durable. You can also use any floured cylinder shape to roll the dough, like a cup (use something non-breakable, like a plastic tumbler). Note: Since the dough will be somewhat sticky, I recommend doing this directly on the parchment paper that you’ll be baking on.

4. Transfer your parchment paper and pizza crust to a baking sheet. Spread your pizza sauce evenly on the rolled out pizza dough.

5. Top with shredded cheese and pepperoni. You can also add any additional toppings that you’d like at this point.

6. Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes until cheese is melted and the crust is golden brown. Note: If you like less sauce and less toppings, it will be done closer to 20 minutes. If you have more sauce and more toppings, it will likely take a few minutes longer.

How to store

Store leftover pizza in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. For the best reheating, I recommend using an air fryer or oven at 400 degrees until the cheese is melted.

Variation ideas

• Buffalo chicken pizza: Top cottage cheese pizza crust with buffalo sauce, shredded mozzarella and shredded chicken.
• Barbecue chicken pizza: Top with barbecue sauce, shredded mozzarella and cheddar cheese, shredded chicken and sliced red onions.
• Veggie pizza: Top with pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, sliced bell peppers, mushrooms and olives.
• White pizza: Top with mozzarella and dollops of ricotta cheese.
• Hamburger pizza: Top with cooked ground beef, cheddar cheese, and then finish with shredded lettuce and tomatoes. Don’t forget the burger sauce on top!

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