Cottage Cheese Dill Bread
Cottage cheese dill bread has a lovely taste and texture. It’s perfect for toasting and topping with cream cheese. This savory bread is also great for sandwiches.
Last Updated on September 15, 2025 – Originally posted July 21, 2013
This bread recipe was originally developed at sea level. It was most recently tested with a Zojirushi BB-PDC20, the Home Bakery Virtuoso Plus, at an altitude of 3,700 feet. Learn more about the bread machines I own and recommend.
The Man of the House and I used to participate in a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program. Once a week we’d get a variety of veggies fresh from the farm.
One week our farm share included fresh dill.
I knew I’d seen a recipe for dill bread and thought this would be the perfect opportunity to give it a try.
I was a bit dubious about the cottage cheese in the recipe. I tried it anyway and you know what? The bread was VERY good. It had a lovely taste and texture.
The bread tasted great toasted and topped with cream cheese. We also used this savory bread in sandwiches.
Also, partially because of this recipe, we’ve added dill to our garden. So now we make the bread with our own fresh dill.
Updated Recipe
This dill bread recipe was originally published in 2013. In 2025, it got a major (and very tasty) update.
First of all, I renamed the recipe. Cottage cheese is an important part of this recipe and I thought it should be in the name. So it’s now called Cottage Cheese Dill Bread instead of Dill Bread.
Speaking of cottage cheese, the recipe originally called for cream-style cottage cheese. I had a hard time finding it, so I switched to regular cottage cheese. And because regular cottage cheese doesn’t have as much liquid, the recipe now calls for 2 extra tablespoons of water.
Now for the tasty part! People left numerous comments saying that what this recipe really needed was a tablespoon of dried minced onion. I tried it and oh my gosh! It’s so, so good with that one addition.
Last, but not least, I increased the amount of dill in the recipe.
Cottage Cheese
First of all, the cottage cheese in this recipe makes this one of the most protein intensive breads on the site. So if you’re looking for a way to get additional protein in your diet, take a look at this bread recipe.
Now to the making of the bread, I’ve seen some recipes for dill bread that recommend you warm the cottage cheese before adding to the bread pan. This is because the temperature of the cold cottage cheese might affect the yeast and cause the bread not to rise as much.
If your machine is like my Zojirushi and has a warming cycle, that’s not needed. If your machine doesn’t have a warming or preheat cycle, you’ll want to warm the cottage cheese.
If you like this recipe, check out my collection of herb bread recipes for the bread machine. BTW, the rosemary bread is wonderful!!
Making Cottage Cheese Dill Bread
This makes a two-pound loaf of bread. Use the basic setting with the medium crust option.
Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the bread machine first. With my bread machine, I add the liquid first.
Speaking of the liquids, I measure the water in a Pyrex measuring cup. Then I add the egg into the cup with the water, and beat the egg there. It helps the egg to be more evenly distributed throughout the bread dough.
Check on the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading. It’s especially important with this recipe because of the cottage cheese. Just pop the top of the bread machine and see how the dough is doing. It should be a smooth, round ball. If the dough is too dry add liquid a teaspoon at a time until the dough balls up. If it looks too wet, add flour a tablespoon at a time until it looks as expected.
Cottage Cheese Dill Bread Recipe for the Bread Machine
Again, this is a recipe for a two-pound bread machine. Use the basic setting with the medium crust option.
1 1/3 cup cottage cheese
1/3 cup plus 2 Tablespoons water
1 egg, beaten
4 cups bread flour
3 Tablespoons butter
1 Tablespoon sugar
1/2 cup chopped, fresh dill (OR you can use 4 teaspoons dried dill weed)
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 Tablespoon dehydrated minced onion
1 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
See below for metric measurements, as well as nutrition information, for this dill bread recipe for the bread machine.
Cottage Cheese Dill Bread
Recommended Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cup (280 g) cottage cheese
- 1/3 cup (78.86 ml) water
- 2 Tablespoons water - Not a typo, the software won't let me add the water in one line.
- 1 egg - beaten
- 4 cups (500 g) bread flour
- 3 Tablespoons butter
- 1 Tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 cup (23.5 g) fresh dill - chopped OR you can use 4 teaspoons dried dill weed
- 1 Tablespoon dehydrated minced onion
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
Instructions
- This makes a two-pound loaf of bread. Use the basic setting with the medium crust option.
- Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the bread machine first. (With my bread machine, I add the liquid first.)
- Speaking of the liquids, I measure the water in a Pyrex measuring cup. Then I add the egg into the cup with the water, and beat the egg there. It helps the egg to be more evenly distributed throughout the bread dough.
- Check on the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading. It’s especially important with this recipe because of the cottage cheese. Just pop the top of the bread machine and see how the dough is doing. It should be a smooth, round ball. If the dough is too dry add liquid a teaspoon at a time until the dough balls up. If it looks too wet, add flour a tablespoon at a time until it looks as expected.
Notes
Nutrition
All information presented within this site is intended for informational purposes only. I am not a certified nutritionist and any nutritional information on breadmachinediva.com should only be used as a general guideline. This information is provided as a courtesy and there is no guarantee that the information will be completely accurate. I try to provide accurate information to the best of my ability; however these figures should still be considered estimates.
