Reusing Your Ricotta: Creative Ideas for the Container

If you are a cheese lover, chances are that you probably enjoy ricotta. This creamy and lightly sweetened cheese is versatile and can be used as a dip, filling, or sauce. However, once you have finished your delicious container of ricotta at home, don’t toss it away! That would just be wasteful when there are plenty of ways to reuse it creatively.

Getting Started

Before we get into creative ideas for reusing your ricotta container (1) , let’s make sure we have removed any leftovers from the container. You can use a spoon or spatula to scrape every last bit out of the container because #NoWaste! Once done with this crucial step, clean the inside and outside of the container thoroughly in order for there isn’t any leftover residue.

Cleaning Supplies Needed:

  • Dish Soap
  • Sponge/Scrubber
  • Hot Water

Once cleaned and dried completely, check whether syou need additional tools based on what idea interests you!

Cooking & Baking

Ricotta is an excellent ingredient in many recipes that call for either cream cheese or dairy ingredients. If you’re struggling with recipe inspiration now then look no further(2).

1) Pancakes

Pancakes always go down well on lazy mornings but imagine them fluffier than before after adding small portions of leftover plain or vanilla-flavored ricotta (It’s all in our secret Ricolla-like recipe) (3) !

Ingredients:

Quantity Ingredients
3 Eggs
Cups All-Purpose Flour
4 tablespoons Sugar
4 teaspoons Baking Powder
2½ cups Milk

Add these next ones (Between items Flour & Baking Powder) in the mixing bowl while preparing your pancake mix:

Quantity Ingredients
¾ Cup Leftover Ricotta Cheese
1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract

2) Broccoli-Cheddar Pasta Bake

Ricotta might just be the secret ingredient you need to make a pasta bake richer and creamier (4).

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz short-cut Pasta (Macaroni)
  • Salt
  • Cooking Spray, for Greasing
  • 12 oz bag frozen chopped Broccoli, thawed and drained
  • Olive Oil
  • Garlic Cloves
  • Red Pepper Flakes, optional
  • Sauce:
    • Cottage Cheese or Creme Fraiche
    • Leftover Ricotta Cheese
    • Whole Milk
  • Topping:
    • Shredded Cheddar or Grana Pedano

Creative Idea #2

Apart from cooking and baking with leftover ricotta cheese, there are other ways that you can get creative.

3) Plant Pot Cover

You may have seen this trick online before but if not it’s time to jump on ok! If you don’t want to use plastic pots for plants flower arrangements with spoiled clay potting surface then bring out your cleaned-out ricotta container ! Congratulations —your plant display now also serves as a conversation starter(5).

4) Paint Holder/Smear Container

If your creativity extends outside of cuisine purposes then whip out those paint brushes because an empty ricotta container makes a perfect holder/smirer. Dip all different sized brushes into multiple acrylic paints without worrying about where they will go when stored in between paintings (6)!

Repurposing Time!

When it comes down to finding what new life-form item(s) to create the options are almost endless. Inquire with those pinterest boards we know you’ve already saved for inspiration on how to repurpose fun sized empty containers into miniatures (7), a piggy bank or DIY snow globe holders★^(8)★ ! Of course using leftover ricotta isn’t mandatory in all of these artsy projects but you might as well make use out of what would have normally been tossed.

Seeing our little experiment try one or two creative ways that best suit your busy schedule—oops looks like we were too helpful! Thank us later and get started on getting being resourceful today!

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