Recipes With Leftover Ricotta Cheese

Instead of just ricotta ing the heck out my pasta i stuck to the recipe but now need to use up the rest asap.

Recipes with leftover ricotta cheese. Which means once i buy a container of it i m scrambling like a crazy person to use it up before mold shows up. It also goes well with plums just look at this beautiful plum tart with ricotta cheese and greek yogurt from happy foods tube. I love this with everything from cooked sausage to thinly sliced sweet potatoes as in this recipe for sweet potato ricotta and arugula flatbread.

3 easy and delicious recipes to use up leftover ricotta cheese both sweet and savory. If i have a cup or more of leftover ricotta i ll use it as a base instead of sauce i just spread it right on the round of raw pizza dough and proceed with toppings. It makes cakes bars and cookies soft most and just delightful.

Frittatas are a great option for using up leftover ricotta too. Ricotta fritters baked ricotta and ricotta doughnuts. Also i never really liked ricotta cheese until we moved to north carolina and i don t know what s different about the kroger brand but.

Ricotta cheese is more widely known for savoury dishes but it also shines in baked goods. Pour a homemade dressing of ricotta cheese buttermilk lemon rind lemon juice and honey over carrot ribbons to make this simply delicious salad. Ricotta cheese though has a pretty short shelf life.

Ribbon salad with lavender ricotta. I grabbed a 16 ounce tub for my baked ziti because it s obviously baked pasta season but only needed 12 ounces. You can just plop a few scoops directly into the egg mixture before it goes into the oven to create little pockets of cheesiness.

Lemon ricotta pancakes ricotta cheese adds a creamy richness to these pancakes that will have you swooning.