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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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Provoleta (Argentine Grilled Provolone) with provolone, crusty bread and garlic — Argentina recipe

🇦🇷ArgentinaEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Provoleta (Argentine Grilled Provolone)

Provoleta is what opens an Argentine asado: a thick disc of provolone seared in a small cast iron pan until the outside forms a golden crust and the middle turns molten. Dried oregano and chili flakes go on before it hits the heat, and chimichurri goes over the top after. There's nothing complicated about it — the whole art is in getting a crust to form before the cheese collapses, and eating it straight from the pan with torn bread.

20 min420 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick💪High protein

Pulpo a la Gallega (Galician Octopus with Potatoes) with octopus, waxy potatoes and onion — Spain recipe

🇪🇸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

Rack of Lamb with Herb Crust with racks of lamb, Dijon mustard and panko breadcrumbs — France recipe

🇫🇷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

Ramen with bamboo shoots, carrot and chicken — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanAdvanced

Soups

Ramen

Ramen is a traditional Japanese dish consisting of Chinese noodles served in a hot broth with various toppings. Each region of Japan has its own unique recipes.

310 min550 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Reverse-Sear Steak (Oven and Cast Iron) with steak, butter and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Reverse-Sear Steak (Oven and Cast Iron)

Reverse-sear steak is a thick ribeye or strip steak that is first warmed slowly in a 120°C oven to about 10°C below the target temperature, then seared in a very hot cast-iron skillet. Because the whole steak is already almost at temperature when it meets the pan, the sear only builds the crust and does not overcook the meat beneath it. The result is even pink from edge to edge with a dark crust and no wide gray band. You need a thermometer, and the dry brine takes at least an hour before you start.

55 min880 kcal2 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Rinderrouladen (German Beef Roulades) with beef, bacon and dill pickles — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Rinderrouladen (German Beef Roulades)

The German Sunday roast in miniature: thin slices of beef spread with mustard, layered with bacon, onion, and a dill pickle, rolled tight and braised for two hours until they cut with a fork. The sauce is built from the browned bits in the pan, which is why searing the rolls hard matters more than anything else here.

150 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Risotto with arborio rice, parmesan and onion — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Risotto

Risotto is a classic Italian dish — creamy rice cooked with broth until soft, with a variety of optional ingredients such as mushrooms, seafood, vegetables, meat and cheese. Suitable for a vegetarian diet if using vegetable broth.

38 min355 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🥑Keto

Roast Chicken with chicken, butter and garlic — France recipe

🇫🇷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

Roast Turkey (Dry-Brined Thanksgiving Turkey) with turkey, onion and carrot — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Roast Turkey (Dry-Brined Thanksgiving Turkey)

Roast turkey is the whole oven-roasted bird at the centre of the American Thanksgiving dinner, here a 5.4 kg (12 lb) turkey salted in advance, rubbed with herb butter under the skin and roasted until the thigh reads 74°C (165°F). This version is written for a home oven and for someone doing it the first time: the dry brine, plain salt rubbed on 1 to 2 days ahead, seasons the meat all the way through and helps the breast stay juicy, and a night uncovered in the fridge dries the skin so it crisps. The 195 minutes cover the day itself, about 30 minutes of prep and 2¾ hours in the oven; on top of that come 3 days of thawing in the fridge, 1 to 2 days of brining and a 30-minute rest before carving. It feeds 10, and the pan juices go into the gravy from our mashed potatoes recipe.

195 min420 kcal10 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Roasted Leg of Lamb with Meyer Lemon with boneless leg of lamb, Meyer lemon and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸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

Rogan Josh with lamb, yogurt and garam masala — India recipe

🇮🇳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

Ropa Vieja with beef, tomato and onion — Cuba recipe

🇨🇺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

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