The cottage cheese makes this as fluffy as a souffle.
Egg Ham Bake With A Twist
Ingredients
- 1 pound COTTAGE CHEESE, small curd
- 4 tablespoons BUTTER, softened
- 1 cup COOKED HAM, diced
- ½ cup GREEN ONIONS, chopped
- 6 EGGS, beaten
- 1 cup GRUYERE CHEESE, shredded SALT & PEPPER, to taste
- WHITE SAUCE
- 4 tablespoons BUTTER
- 4 tablespoons FLOUR
- 2 cups MILK or substitute half n half for richer sauce SALT to taste
Instructions
- To make sauce:
- ) Melt butter in sauce pan
- ) Add flour, mixing constantly & cooking for a minute
- ) Slowly stir in milk
- ) Stir constantly until thicken, add salt
- ) In a bowl work the cottage cheese into the softened butter
- ) Mix in ham, gruyere cheese & green onions
- ) Salt and pepper the eggs and fold into the cottage cheese mixture
- ) Pour into 11/2-2 qt buttered baking dish
- ) Set the baking dish into another pan and pour hot water in outer pan 1 to 1½ inches high around inner baking dish
- ) Bake for 1 hour until set at 350 degrees F
- ) Serve with White Sauce. Serves 4