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High-protein recipes

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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🇩🇴Dominican RepublicMedium

Meat Dishes

Pollo Guisado

Bone-in chicken thighs browned until dark, then braised in a tomato-based sauce with onion, peppers, garlic and herbs. A one-pot Latin American weeknight staple — the sauce soaks into white rice and makes the whole plate.

60 min380 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🥑Keto

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Pot Roast

A classic American home-cooked dish — tender, juicy beef slowly braised with vegetables until softened. Cooked in its own juices with carrots, onions, potatoes and aromatic herbs for a rich, full flavor.

225 min600 kcal8 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Pozharsky Cutlets (Russian Chicken Cutlets)

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Pozharsky Cutlets (Russian Chicken Cutlets)

Pozharsky cutlets are juicy Russian chicken patties in a crisp crust of dried bread cubes. The trick to their tenderness is cold butter worked into the mince — it melts inside as they fry, like a mini chicken Kiev. The outside turns golden and shaggy from the croutons, while the center stays soft and moist.

105 min490 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Pulpo a la Gallega (Galician Octopus with Potatoes)

🇪🇸SpainAdvanced

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Pulpo a la Gallega (Galician Octopus with Potatoes)

Pulpo a la gallega is Galicia's most famous dish and one of the simplest in Spanish cooking — tender slices of boiled octopus laid over soft potatoes on a wooden plate, then finished with nothing but coarse salt, smoked paprika, and a generous stream of olive oil. There's no sauce and nowhere to hide, so everything rests on cooking the octopus to exactly the right point and using paprika and oil worth tasting on their own.

80 min340 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Meat Dishes

Rack of Lamb with Herb Crust

Carré d'agneau — rack of lamb — is the apex cut of French fine dining: the loin section of a young lamb with eight rib bones, frenched (trimmed bare to the bone) and roasted until the eye of meat is a uniform rose-pink medium-rare throughout. The herb crust — breadcrumbs, rosemary, thyme, garlic, parsley, and Parmesan bound with olive oil — is pressed onto the meat after an initial sear, then baked until crackling golden while the lamb underneath stays tender and juicy. The frenched bones fan out on the plate creating one of the most photogenic presentations in classical cuisine. Served resting or crossed (guards of honour), it signals celebration.

50 min560 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

🇷🇺RussiaEasy

Salads

Radish and Sour Cream Salad

A classic Russian spring salad of thinly sliced radishes, fresh cucumber, and green onion with hard-boiled egg, dressed generously with cold sour cream and fresh dill. It comes together in minutes and is served right away while the vegetables stay crisp.

15 min110 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Roast Chicken

A whole chicken roasted with herb butter under the skin, lemon and garlic in the cavity. The skin crisps at high heat first, then the bird finishes low and slow — the simplest way to get juicy meat and a proper crackling skin.

90 min340 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Roasted Leg of Lamb with Meyer Lemon

A whole leg of lamb in a 200°C oven for an hour and a half produces something that doesn't need much explaining — deeply browned crust, interior somewhere between rose and pink, pan juices worth mopping up with bread. What Meyer lemon does here that regular lemon can't quite pull off is this: the floral quality in the zest sits in the herb paste and works on the lamb for hours, going slightly sweet as it roasts, adding a brightness that cuts the richness without turning acidic. If you can't find Meyer lemon, use half regular lemon zest and half mandarin — the point is less tartness, more perfume. The paste goes inside the rolled roast and outside. Inside matters more. That's where the flavor lives between slices.

120 min520 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Salads

Rockfor Salad

Mixed greens, toasted walnuts, and crumbles of pungent Roquefort blue cheese in a honey-mustard vinaigrette. The interplay between the sharp, cave-aged cheese and crunchy walnuts makes every bite bold and interesting.

20 min200 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto⚡Quick

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Rogan Josh

A jewel of Kashmiri cuisine — tender slow-braised lamb in a deep red aromatic sauce of yogurt, tomato, paprika, and warming spices. 'Rogan' means oil or clarified fat, 'Josh' means heat or passion in Persian. A royal Mughal dish that is earthy, rich, and deeply satisfying without being fiercely hot.

90 min420 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

🇨🇺CubaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Ropa Vieja

Flank steak braised until it pulls apart into long fibrous strands, then simmered in a sofrito of peppers, onion, tomatoes and green olives. Cuba's national dish — the name means 'old clothes', which is exactly what the shredded beef looks like.

150 min350 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Salads

Russian Vinegret Salad

Boiled beets, potatoes, and carrots diced small and tossed with briny dill pickles, sauerkraut, green onions, and a simple sunflower oil dressing. This salad has been on Russian holiday tables for over a century. It is earthy, tangy, and satisfying cold — the kind of thing that gets better by the day and tastes best made a day ahead.

75 min195 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

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