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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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Lemon Marry Me Chicken with chicken thighs, heavy cream and sun dried tomatoes in oil — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Lemon Marry Me Chicken

The original Marry Me Chicken gets a lemon treatment — zest and juice cut through the cream sauce and make the whole thing taste lighter than it has any right to. Sun-dried tomatoes, parmesan, garlic, a splash of white wine, fresh thyme. One skillet, one sauce, chicken thighs that stay juicy because they finish in the oven. Serve it over pasta, rice, or just with bread to drag through the sauce.

35 min550 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Lobster Thermidor with lobster, butter and cream — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Lobster Thermidor

Lobster Thermidor is a truly luxurious dish with a rich creamy and cheesy sauce. Brandy gives the sauce an exquisite flavor and mustard adds a savory note. Baked with a crispy cheese crust.

53 min555 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Lomo Saltado with beef sirloin, ají amarillo and red onions — Peru recipe

🇵🇪PeruMedium

Meat Dishes

Lomo Saltado

Lomo saltado is a beef stir-fry from the chifa kitchens of Peru, where Cantonese cooking technique met Peruvian ingredients from the late nineteenth century onward. Strips of sirloin are seared in a scorching pan, then joined by red onion, ají amarillo, tomato, soy sauce and vinegar, and the whole thing is finished with fried potatoes folded in at the last second. Serving it over rice puts two starches on one plate, which is exactly the point: the potato is Andean, the rice and the wok are Chinese, and the soy-and-vinegar pan sauce belongs to neither on its own. Everything depends on pan temperature, so all cutting and measuring is done before the burner is lit.

40 min690 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Lyulya Kebab (Azerbaijani Lamb Skewers) with ground lamb, lamb tail fat and onion — Azerbaijan recipe

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Meat Dishes

Lyulya Kebab (Azerbaijani Lamb Skewers)

Lyulya kebab is Azerbaijani ground-lamb skewers grilled over a mangal. The meat is kneaded long with grated onion and lamb tail fat until it turns dense and tacky — with no egg or bread, that kneading is what keeps it on the skewer. It grills to a browned crust and is served with sumac, pickled onion, and lavash.

95 min400 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Machanka (Belarusian Pork Sauce with Pancakes) with pork belly, sour cream and sausages — Belarus recipe

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Meat Dishes

Machanka (Belarusian Pork Sauce with Pancakes)

A traditional Belarusian dish — thick, rich pork and sausage sauce in sour cream, served hot over thin homemade pancakes. Hearty, warming, and deeply satisfying village food.

90 min400 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Makarony po-flotski (Russian Navy-Style Pasta) with penne, ground beef and onion — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaEasy

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Makarony po-flotski (Russian Navy-Style Pasta)

Makarony po-flotski is a simple Soviet dish: boiled pasta tossed with browned ground meat and golden onions. The key is to truly fry the meat to a crust rather than stew it, or the flavor falls flat. Quick, filling, and sauce-free — a Soviet-era classic that takes its name from the navy's pasta-with-meat ration.

30 min740 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Tofu in Chili Bean Sauce) with silken tofu, doubanjiang and fermented black beans — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Tofu in Chili Bean Sauce)

Mapo tofu is the definitive Sichuan dish — cubes of silken tofu suspended in a glossy scarlet sauce of fermented chili bean paste and black beans, studded with crisp bits of pork and finished with freshly ground Sichuan peppercorn. The result is má là: the tingling numbness of the peppercorn against the burn of chili. Soft, fiery, and deeply savoury, it's built in minutes and eaten straight over steaming rice.

40 min380 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Marry Me Chicken with chicken, cream and parmesan — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Marry Me Chicken

Marry Me Chicken is an American skillet dish of chicken breasts in a cream sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and Parmesan, named for the joke that one plate is enough to get a proposal. It was created at the US food site Delish in 2016, went round the world from there and stayed because it needs one pan, twenty minutes of work and no unusual shopping. The breasts are seared to a golden crust, then finished in the oven in the sauce so they stay juicy.

35 min680 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Martinsgans (German Roast Goose) with goose, apple and onion — Germany recipe

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Meat Dishes

Martinsgans (German Roast Goose)

Martinsgans is the roast goose Germany eats around 11 November, the feast of St Martin, stuffed with apples, onions and mugwort and served with red cabbage and potato dumplings. The same bird reappears at Christmas, but November is when it belongs to a date. The method is slow and then fast: about three hours at 160 to 180°C for a 4.5 kg goose, breast down for the first hour so the back fat bastes the lean meat, then a short blast at 220°C with a brush of salted water to crisp the skin. The bird also gives up half a litre of clean fat along the way, which is a second ingredient rather than waste.

240 min820 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Massaman Curry with beef, potato and peanuts — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Meat Dishes

Massaman Curry

Thailand’s mildest and most complex curry — slow-braised beef with potato and roasted peanuts in a rich coconut milk sauce spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, and cumin. Voted the world’s best dish by CNN Travel in 2011. Not spicy — deep, sweet, and profoundly satisfying.

50 min380 kcal2 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Meat in French Style with pork neck or loin, hard cheese gouda or edam and tomatoes — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Meat in French Style

A beloved post-Soviet baked dish where tender pork cutlets are layered with onion, mushrooms, tomatoes and two kinds of cheese, then baked until the cheese forms a rich golden crust. An all-in-one festive dish that always impresses.

90 min520 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🥑Keto

Meat Pulao with lamb, rice and onion — India recipe

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Meat Dishes

Meat Pulao

Meat pulao (also spelled pilau, pulav, or pilaf) is an Indian one-pot rice dish: basmati rice cooked in the stock of lamb or beef with onion, ginger, garlic, and whole spices. The meat is braised first and the rice finishes in the stock it left behind, the way yakhni pulao is made. Unlike biryani there are no layers and no second pot, so it takes about 110 minutes with young lamb, and the rice itself needs only 15 of them. Serve it with plain yogurt and a fresh salad.

110 min610 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

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