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Tropical Mango Pineapple Cottage Cheese Parfait

Creamy lime-kissed cottage cheese layered with juicy mango and pineapple, topped with crunchy coconut-toasted pepitas and sesame.

Tropical Mango Pineapple Cottage Cheese Parfait

Ingredients

  • 2⅔ cups600 gCottage cheese, 2%
  • 1 whole330 gMangodiced
  • 1¾ cups chunks300 gPineapplediced
  • ½ lime, juiced20 gLime juice
  • 1½ tbsp30 gHoney
  • ⅓ cup50 gPumpkin seeds (pepitas)
  • 1½ tbsp12 gSesame seeds
  • 3½ tbsp20 gSweetened shredded coconut
  • ½ tsp1 gGround ginger
  • 2¾ tsp chopped5 gFresh mintthinly sliced

Steps

  1. Dice the mango and pineapple, and slice the mint.
  2. Heat a dry skillet over medium heat. Add the pumpkin seeds and toast, stirring, for 3 minutes until they start to pop.
  3. Add the sesame seeds and shredded coconut and toast 1 to 2 minutes more until the coconut is golden. Tip onto a plate and let cool for 5 minutes.
  4. In a bowl, toss the mango and pineapple with the lime juice and ground ginger.
  5. Stir the honey into the cottage cheese until smooth.
  6. Into 4 glasses, spoon half of the cottage cheese mixture, then half of the fruit mixture.
  7. Repeat with the remaining half of the cottage cheese mixture and the remaining half of the fruit mixture.
  8. Sprinkle the toasted seed and coconut crunch and the mint over the top and serve right away.

Contains: Milk, Sesame.

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Saved in the Every Helping recipe book on October 24, 2026.

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