Healthy Spinach Cheese Cakes

Delicious way to eat spinach. You can substitute the cottage cheese for part-skim ricotta cheese and the two laughing cow cheese wedges for ½ cup finely shredded Parmesan cheese.

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 4
• Yields: 8 spinach cakes

Ingredients

• 10  cups fresh spinach
• 1⁄2 cup low fat cottage cheese
• 2  wedges  Laughing Cow cheese
• 1  large egg, beaten
• 1  garlic clove, minced
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground pepper

Directions

1. Preheat oven 400 degrees.
2. Pulse spinach in three batches in a food processor until finely chopped. Transfer to a medium bowl.
3. Add cottage cheese (ricotta cheese), laughing cow cheese, eggs, garlic, and pepper; stir to combine.
4. Coat muffin pan with cooking spray. Divide the spinach mixture among cups to very top.
5. Bake spinach cakes until set, about 25 minutes. Let stand in the pan for 5 minutes. Serve warm.