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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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🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Sichuan Kung Pao Chicken

Sichuan kung pao chicken is a fast stir-fry of tender chicken cubes, dried chillies and crisp peanuts. Chinkiang vinegar gives the thin glaze a dark, sharp edge, while Sichuan pepper leaves a brief citrusy tingle. It should taste lively rather than syrupy, with the peanuts added late enough to stay crisp.

35 min520 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Meat Dishes

Sichuan Spicy Chicken

A classic of Chinese cuisine with bold flavor and the signature numbing heat of Sichuan pepper — the mala effect. Velveted chicken stir-fried until crispy, finished in a spicy sauce with dried chili, garlic, and roasted peanuts. Serve immediately with jasmine rice.

35 min320 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

🇸🇬SingaporeAdvanced

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Singapore Chili Crab

Singapore's national dish — whole crab braised in a glossy sweet-spicy tomato-chili sauce with garlic, ginger, and egg ribbons. Created in 1950s Singapore and eaten with your hands, mopping up every drop of sauce with warm mantou buns.

45 min500 kcal1 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇵🇭PhilippinesAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Sisig (Filipino Sizzling Pork)

Sisig is the Philippines' most famous sizzling dish — a bold, addictive tangle of crisp-edged chopped pork and chicken liver, brightened with calamansi, sharpened with raw onion and bird's eye chili, and served screaming hot on a cast-iron plate, often crowned with a raw egg stirred through at the table. Born in Pampanga as a way to use every part of the pig, it's sour, savoury, fatty, and spicy all at once — the ultimate pulutan to eat with cold beer and rice.

75 min560 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Smash Burger

The smash burger is the most significant development in American burger cookery in decades — a technique that inverts everything traditional burger advice tells you to do. Instead of forming a shaped patty and handling it gently, you place a loose ball of cold 80/20 ground beef on a screaming-hot cast-iron griddle or skillet, then press it flat instantly with maximum force. The entire physics of the burger changes: the thin patty achieves near-total surface contact with the hot metal, triggering the Maillard reaction across the full face of the burger rather than just the edges. The result is a hamburger that is almost entirely crust — dark, crispy, lacey-edged, deeply savory — with a thin, juicy interior. American cheese, with its uniquely high moisture content and engineered melt point, is not optional. No other cheese melts completely in the 30 to 45 seconds available between flip and serve.

25 min720 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Salads

Smashed Cucumbers

A classic Chinese cold appetizer where cucumbers are smashed to create craggy surfaces that soak up a bold sesame-soy-vinegar dressing. Ready in 30 minutes, refreshing and addictive.

30 min80 kcal5 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy⚡Quick

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Salads

Som Tam (Green Papaya Salad)

Thailand's most iconic salad — shredded green papaya pounded in a mortar with tomatoes, green beans, garlic, chili, lime juice, and fish sauce. Crunchy, spicy, tangy, and refreshing all at once. Served cold with sticky rice and grilled chicken.

20 min140 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

🇬🇷GreeceMedium

Meat Dishes

Souvlaki

Pork cubes marinated in olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, and dried oregano, skewered and grilled over high heat until the edges char and the inside stays juicy. The marinade is deliberately simple — this is street food, not a restaurant dish, and the flavor should come from the quality of the pork and the smoke of the grill rather than a complicated spice blend. Souvlaki is served two ways in Greece: straight off the skewer with lemon wedges and a slice of bread, or wrapped in a warm pita with tomato, onion, and tzatziki. Both are correct. This recipe makes 8 skewers.

30 min380 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Spare Ribs

Slow-cooked pork ribs covered in a flavorful BBQ sauce. Rich flavor and juiciness make them a favorite treat for all meat lovers.

270 min1120 kcal10 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Spiced Butternut-Sweet Potato Bowl

Roasted butternut squash and sweet potato together, ground turkey with warm autumn spices, cottage cheese, avocado, and hot honey. The gentlest bowl in this series. Sweet potato holds its shape and caramelizes at the edges; squash softens into something almost melting. Together they make a base that is richer and more layered than either one alone.

40 min490 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Spicy Fish

This dish combines the spiciness of jalapeños, the sourness of tomatoes and capers, and the delicate flavor of fish, characteristic of Mexican coastal cuisine.

40 min325 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto🌶️Spicy💪High protein

🌊MediterraneanAdvanced

Salads

Spring Pea and Feta Couscous Salad

A bright, no-fuss salad that works as a side for grilled lamb or chicken, or holds its own as a light lunch. Pearl couscous — the round, pasta-like kind, not the fine-grain North African variety — gets toasted before cooking, which gives it a nutty depth that plain couscous lacks. Pickled shallots cut through the richness of the feta and keep the salad from tasting flat. Fresh mint is non-negotiable here: it's the ingredient that ties everything together and makes this taste like spring rather than just a bowl of starchy things.

25 min390 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

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