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Noodle Kugel With Cottage Cheese

08/24/2026
Butter
Total time: 70 min
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 55 min
Servings: 12
A plate with a fork and a piece of sweet noodle kugel next to a knife, a napkin, and a casserole of noodle kugel.
Butter Cream Cottage Cheese

It’s a pudding! It’s a casserole! It’s sweet! It’s savory! It’s many things to many people, but above all—it’s delicious. We’re talking noodle kugel here, a.k.a. lokshen noodle if you dabble in Yiddish. 

Our noodle kugel recipe is sweet and cinnamon-cozy. Sweet noodle kugel often has cottage cheese, and some early Jewish cookbooks list this version as a kugel meant only for the harvest holiday Shavuot—a holiday featuring several dairy foods. Of course, it’s a dish that’s delish any time for anyone. B'tayavon!

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Ingredients:

  • 9 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter , melted, divided, plus more for greasing pan
  • 2 Teaspoons Kosher Salt , plus more to taste
  • 12 Ounces Extra-Wide Egg Noodles
  • 8 Large Egg
  • 1/2 Cup Sugar
  • 1 Pound Full-Fat Cottage Cheese
  • 1 Pound Full-Fat Sour Cream
  • 1 Tablespoon Pure Vanilla Extract
  • 1 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
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Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees and grease a 9x13-inch baking dish with butter. Fill a large pot with salted water and bring to boil over high heat. Cook egg noodles according to package directions, about 7 minutes. Drain. Return egg noodles to pot and toss in 1 tablespoon melted butter. 
  2. Whisk eggs and sugar together in a large bowl until sugar dissolves. Whisk in cottage cheese, sour cream, vanilla and cinnamon until combined. Pour in remaining melted butter and whisk together until combined. Add cooked noodles and toss to coat. The noodle kugel ingredients in a bowl along with a stick of butter, the cottage cheese, and the vanilla. A bowl with the cooked noodles ready to stir into the kugel mixture.
  3. Pour egg noodle mixture in an even layer into the prepared baking dish. Bake until the center is set and the top is golden-brown, about 50-55 minutes. Let cool at room temperature for about 10-15 minutes. Slice and serve.

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