Why add cottage cheese?
Cottage cheese brings a cool, creamy component without turning the bowl into a sauce-heavy meal. If you prefer, use plain Greek yogurt or sour cream instead.
Cottage Cheese Chicken Taco Bowl
This cottage cheese chicken taco bowl combines warm taco-seasoned chicken with cool cottage cheese, black beans, corn, salsa, and avocado. It is a flexible dinner: use rice, lettuce, or both as the base.
Ingredients
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How to make it
Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken and taco seasoning; cook, stirring, until the chicken reaches 165°F.
Warm beans and corn in the microwave or a small pan.
Divide rice, chicken, beans, corn, cottage cheese, salsa, and avocado among four bowls.
Squeeze lime over the bowls and serve.
Pro tips
- Why add cottage cheese?: Cottage cheese brings a cool, creamy component without turning the bowl into a sauce-heavy meal. If you prefer, use plain Greek yogurt or sour cream instead.
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Cottage Cheese Chicken Taco Bowl
This cottage cheese chicken taco bowl combines warm taco-seasoned chicken with cool cottage cheese, black beans, corn, salsa, and avocado. It is a flexible dinner: use rice, lettuce, or both as the base.
- Course
- Dinner
- Cuisine
- Tex-Mex-inspired
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
Why add cottage cheese?: Cottage cheese brings a cool, creamy component without turning the bowl into a sauce-heavy meal. If you prefer, use plain Greek yogurt or sour cream instead.
Nutrition estimate
Nutrition has not been calculated for this recipe.
Source: https://saucyrecipe.com/cottage-cheese-chicken-taco-bowl/
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About this recipe
- Written by
- Sophie Bennett
- Edited by
- SaucyRecipe Editorial Team
- Last checked
- 2026-09-06
- Testing status
- Kitchen-tested (recorded by the editor)
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