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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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Caesar Salad with bread, butter and chicken — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Salads

Caesar Salad

Caesar salad is a Tijuana-born salad of romaine, Parmesan, croutons and a garlicky lemon dressing. This version builds the dressing on mayonnaise and buttermilk with Worcestershire sauce and Dijon mustard, adds grilled chicken and bakes the croutons with garlic and olive oil. Made from scratch, it bears no resemblance to the bottled-dressing version.

23 min510 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Canard a l'Orange (French Roast Duck with Orange Sauce) with duck, oranges and orange liqueur — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Canard a l'Orange (French Roast Duck with Orange Sauce)

Canard a l'orange is one of the pillars of classical French cooking: a whole roast duck with crisp, rendered skin, served with sauce bigarade — a sharp, glossy orange sauce built on a gastrique of caramelized sugar and vinegar. The point isn't sweetness but tension, the acidity and faint bitterness of the orange cutting straight through the fat of the bird. Codified by Escoffier, it's the dish that taught generations of cooks what balance means.

150 min680 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Carne Asada with flank steak, lime and garlic — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Meat Dishes

Carne Asada

Flank steak marinated in fresh lime, orange, garlic and cilantro, then grilled on screaming-hot metal until charred outside and pink inside. The entire flavor lives in the marinade and the char — both take minutes, not hours.

30 min310 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🥑Keto

Carp with Vegetables with carp, carrot and onion — Poland recipe

🇵🇱PolandAdvanced

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Carp with Vegetables

A hearty Central European dish where carp is first seared to a golden crust, then slowly braised with potatoes, carrots and tomato sauce until the fish absorbs all the rich aromas of the vegetables.

90 min300 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Chana Masala with chickpeas, tomato and onion — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Chana Masala

A Punjabi street food staple that became an all-India classic — chickpeas simmered in a thick spiced tomato-onion sauce with cumin, coriander, garam masala, and a squeeze of lime. Vegetarian, cheap, deeply satisfying. Eaten for breakfast with puri, for lunch with rice, and as a street snack.

35 min290 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork) with pork, honey and hoisin sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Meat Dishes

Char Siu (Cantonese BBQ Pork)

A jewel of Cantonese cuisine — pork neck marinated overnight in honey, soy sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin, and Chinese five-spice, then roasted until deeply caramelized with charred edges and a lacquered glaze. 'Char' means fork, 'Siu' means roast. Served with rice, noodles, or stuffed into steamed buns.

45 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Chawanmushi with Crab and Shiitake (Japanese Steamed Egg Custard) with dashi, crab meat and shiitake mushrooms — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Chawanmushi with Crab and Shiitake (Japanese Steamed Egg Custard)

Chawanmushi is a savoury Japanese egg custard steamed until it barely sets — so soft it trembles on the spoon, with none of the firmness of a Western custard. Dashi carries the flavour, seasoned lightly with mirin and pale soy, while crab, shiitake, kamaboko, and ginkgo nuts sit hidden beneath the surface. Served warm in a lidded cup with a sprig of mitsuba and a shaving of yuzu, it's the quiet, restrained side of Japanese cooking.

40 min130 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Chicken Adobo with chicken, garlic and vinegar — Philippines recipe

🇵🇭PhilippinesMedium

Meat Dishes

Chicken Adobo

The national dish of the Philippines — chicken thighs braised in a tangy-savory mix of soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, bay leaves, and black pepper until the meat is fall-off-the-bone tender and the sauce is thick and glossy. Simple, deeply flavorful, and even better the next day.

40 min310 kcal2 serves

💪High protein🥑Keto

Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry with chicken breast, broccoli and soy sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Meat Dishes

Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry

Thin strips of chicken and broccoli florets cooked fast in a hot pan, then coated in a glossy brown sauce built on soy, oyster sauce, ginger, and garlic. Ready in 25 minutes, high in protein.

25 min320 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Chicken and Mushroom in Creamy Sauce with chicken breasts, mushrooms and heavy cream — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Chicken and Mushroom in Creamy Sauce

Chicken cutlets seared until golden, then a pan sauce built in the same skillet — mushrooms, garlic, a splash of white wine, chicken broth, heavy cream, parmesan. The sauce is what this is really about. Chicken breast is lean and mild on its own; the sauce is where all the flavor lives. Thirty-five minutes, one pan.

35 min450 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Chicken Burrito Bowls with chicken, rice and black beans — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Chicken Burrito Bowls

A burrito bowl is the filling of a burrito served without the tortilla: everything goes into a bowl in layers instead of being rolled. This one starts with chicken breast rubbed in chili powder, cumin and smoked paprika, sits on cilantro-lime rice, and is finished with black beans, corn, pico de gallo and avocado. Chicken and beans together push protein above 45 g a serving, and the whole thing takes 35 minutes.

35 min730 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Chicken Karaage with chicken, soy sauce and ginger — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Meat Dishes

Chicken Karaage

Japan's much-loved fried chicken: bite-sized thigh pieces marinated in soy, ginger, garlic, and sake, dredged in potato starch, and double-fried to a pale, craggy, glass-crisp shell. The potato starch and the two-stage fry are what set it apart from any other fried chicken, and a squeeze of lemon at the table is all it needs.

35 min380 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

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