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Egg Ham Bake With A Twist

The cottage cheese makes this as fluffy as a souffle.

Egg Ham Bake With A Twist
 
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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
  1. To make sauce:
  2. ) Melt butter in sauce pan
  3. ) Add flour, mixing constantly & cooking for a minute
  4. ) Slowly stir in milk
  5. ) Stir constantly until thicken, add salt
  6. ) In a bowl work the cottage cheese into the softened butter
  7. ) Mix in ham, gruyere cheese & green onions
  8. ) Salt and pepper the eggs and fold into the cottage cheese mixture
  9. ) Pour into 11/2-2 qt buttered baking dish
  10. ) Set the baking dish into another pan and pour hot water in outer pan 1 to 1½ inches high around inner baking dish
  11. ) Bake for 1 hour until set at 350 degrees F
  12. ) Serve with White Sauce. Serves 4