1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

Coat an 8 x 8 square pan with cooking spray. Add butter then place in oven until melted. Remove pan from oven and rotate until melted butter is spread on bottom. Raise heat of oven to 425º.

Remove excess moisture from broccoli by pressing a paper towel on the pieces. In a medium sized bowl, combine broccoli, muffin mix, cottage cheese, eggs, pimientos and black pepper and mix thoroughly.

Pour bread mixture into pan then bake for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of bread comes out clean.