Túrós Csusza (Pasta with Cottage Cheese and Bacon)
Dietary and allergen labels, nutrition and cost are worked out automatically from each recipe’s ingredients and are a guide only. Check the labels on what you buy yourself — especially for allergies or coeliac disease. More about recipe labels.
Opens Equal House and puts it on the night you choose. No app yet? It’s free, and the recipe comes with you when you install it.
Ingredients
- 350 g pasta
- 150 g smoked streaky bacon
- 250 g cottage cheese
- 100 ml soured cream
- 5 g fresh chives
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 530 kcal
- Protein
- 23.7 g
- Carbohydrate
- 65.3 g
- of which sugars
- 5.5 g
- Fat
- 18.7 g
- of which saturates
- 8.3 g
- Fibre
- 2.8 g
- Salt
- 1.73 g
Estimated from typical values for each ingredient — a guide, not a substitute for the label on what you actually buy.
Method
- 1
Cook the pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water according to the pack instructions, then drain, reserving a splash of the cooking water.
- 2
Fry the chopped bacon in a pan for 4-5 minutes until crisp.
- 3
Toss the hot pasta with the cottage cheese, soured cream and a splash of the reserved cooking water until well coated.
- 4
Scatter over the bacon and snipped chives, and serve.

Plan your meals — and share the cooking
Equal House builds your shopping list by aisle, times the cooking for dinner, and shares it out fairly. Free to start.
Free to start on your iPhone Free to start on your Android phone Free to start · No ads · Your family's data stays yours.