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Thirty grams of protein or more per serving, without a protein powder in sight. Meat, fish, eggs, beans, and dairy doing their actual job.

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Homemade Eggnog with egg yolks, whole milk and heavy cream — USA recipe

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Beverages

Homemade Eggnog

Egg yolks cooked into a thin custard with milk, cream, nutmeg, and vanilla, then chilled until thick. Store-bought eggnog is sweet and shelf-stable; this is something different — rich from real eggs, fragrant from freshly grated nutmeg, and thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. The technique is exactly the same as making crème anglaise. If you've made that before, you already know how to make eggnog.

25 min320 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein⚡Quick

Homemade Strasbourg-style Pâté en Croûte with chicken livers, chicken breast and pork neck or fatty shoulder — France recipe

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Meat Dishes

Homemade Strasbourg-style Pâté en Croûte

A home kitchen adaptation of the classic Strasbourg pâté — no foie gras, but the same principle: spiced, cognac-scented forcemeat baked inside a golden pastry crust and sliced cold.

120 min365 kcal8 serves

💪High protein

Honey Garlic Salmon with salmon, honey and garlic — USA recipe

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Honey Garlic Salmon

Honey garlic salmon is baked salmon fillets coated in a glaze of honey, garlic and soy sauce, an American home-cooking dish. The glaze is cooked for a couple of minutes on the stove, spooned over the fish, and the fillets bake 12–14 minutes until just flaky. A short pass under the broiler then caramelizes the edges into a sticky glaze. Serve it with rice or broccoli to catch every drop.

25 min405 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Honey-Glazed Ham (Easter Spiral-Cut Ham with Honey Mustard Glaze) with bone in spiral cut ham, honey and light brown sugar — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Honey-Glazed Ham (Easter Spiral-Cut Ham with Honey Mustard Glaze)

Honey-glazed ham is the centerpiece of the American Easter table — a fully cooked spiral-cut bone-in ham, slow-warmed under foil and brushed with a sticky lacquer of honey, brown sugar, and Dijon mustard. The bone keeps the meat moist, the spiral cut lets the glaze seep into every slice, and a final blast under the broiler gives the signature caramel crust. Serves twelve, makes great sandwiches the next day, and the leftover bone goes into split pea soup. The technique is forgiving: low oven, foil tent, glaze in the last 30 minutes.

150 min330 kcal12 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Hong Shao Rou (Chinese Red-Braised Pork Belly) with pork belly, rock sugar and star anise — China recipe

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Meat Dishes

Hong Shao Rou (Chinese Red-Braised Pork Belly)

Hong shao rou (红烧肉), literally 'red-braised meat', is a Chinese home-style braise of skin-on pork belly cubes cooked until the surface turns a deep mahogany red and a thin, glossy sauce clings to every piece. The colour and shine come from rock sugar caramelized before the meat goes in, then a slow simmer in soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, ginger, and star anise. It is one of the standard dishes on the family table for National Day (国庆, 1–7 October) and Lunar New Year, usually served alongside plain rice and a plate of blanched greens to balance the richness. Most of the 60 to 90 minutes on the stove is unattended simmering, so the active work is really the first fifteen minutes: cutting, blanching, and getting the sugar to the right shade of amber. Done right, the fat under the skin turns soft and almost translucent rather than greasy, and the lean layers hold their shape without drying out.

115 min795 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Hot Honey Bowl with sweet potatoes, lean ground turkey and cottage cheese — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Hot Honey Bowl

Roasted sweet potato, taco-seasoned ground turkey, cottage cheese, avocado, and a generous drizzle of hot honey. A bowl that sounds questionable until you try it. Cold cottage cheese against warm sweet potato and meat, the sweet heat of the honey on top — it works in a way that is hard to explain before the first bite. One of the most shared high-protein meals on TikTok for a reason.

35 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Hot Honey Cottage Cheese Beef Bowl with lean ground beef, cottage cheese and honey — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Hot Honey Cottage Cheese Beef Bowl

Ground beef glazed in spicy-sweet hot honey, served over jasmine rice with a cold scoop of cottage cheese on top. The cottage cheese melts just enough from the heat of the beef to form a creamy layer. One pan. 25 minutes.

25 min480 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Irish Stew with lamb, potato and carrot — Ireland recipe

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Meat Dishes

Irish Stew

Lamb shoulder browned until dark, then slow-braised with potatoes, carrots and onions in a Guinness-spiked broth until the collagen melts and the whole pot turns rich and glossy. Ireland's national dish — honest peasant food that gets better overnight.

120 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Jambalaya with rice, sausage and shrimp — USA recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Jambalaya

Jambalaya is a famous spicy Creole dish from the American state of Louisiana — a flavorful mixture of rice, meat and seafood.

45 min500 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Japanese Curry Rice with beef, potato and carrot — Japan recipe

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Meat Dishes

Japanese Curry Rice

Japanese curry rice (kare-raisu) is beef, potato, carrot and onion braised in a thick, mildly sweet curry sauce thickened with a flour roux and served over steamed rice (not included in the calories). It is milder and silkier than Indian or Thai curry, and it also goes over udon noodles. Japanese curry arrived from India via Britain in the 19th century and was completely reimagined.

105 min480 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Jjajangmyeon (Korean Black Bean Noodles with Pork and Vegetables) with pork belly, chunjang and jjajangmyeon noodles — Korea recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Jjajangmyeon (Korean Black Bean Noodles with Pork and Vegetables)

Jjajangmyeon is a Korean-Chinese noodle dish of thick chewy wheat noodles topped with a glossy black sauce of fried chunjang (Korean fermented black soybean paste), pork belly, onions, potato, zucchini, and cabbage. The dish was first sold in 1905 at the Gonghwachun restaurant in Incheon's Chinatown, brought by immigrants from Shandong as zha jiang mian; the sweeter caramel-dark chunjang that defines it today came later, in 1948. Today it is one of Korea's national comfort foods, sold in every neighbourhood and traditionally eaten on Black Day (April 14) by single people who got no Valentine's gift. Active work is about 45 minutes, no long simmer needed. Serves 4 with 200 g noodles and about 400 ml sauce per portion, topped with julienned cucumber for fresh contrast.

45 min1330 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Katsudon (Japanese Pork Cutlet Rice Bowl) with pork, eggs and panko — Japan recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Katsudon (Japanese Pork Cutlet Rice Bowl)

Katsudon is a Japanese rice bowl (donburi) topped with tonkatsu, a breaded fried pork cutlet that's simmered briefly in sweet dashi broth with onion and set with egg. The name joins katsu, the cutlet, and donburi, the bowl. You slice the cutlet, give it about a minute in a small pan of broth, pour the egg over and slide the lot onto rice. Part of the crust stays crunchy and part goes silky where the broth reaches it, and that contrast is the whole appeal. Japanese students eat it before exams and athletes before a match, because katsu sounds like the verb "to win."

40 min780 kcal2 serves

💪High protein

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