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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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Cioppino with Dungeness crab, clams and mussels — USA recipe

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Soups

Cioppino

A San Francisco seafood stew of Italian-American origin: Dungeness crab, clams, mussels, shrimp, and white fish simmered in a tomato-and-white-wine broth scented with fennel and garlic. Born as a fishermen's communal pot, it is served with sourdough for soaking up the broth.

50 min360 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Classic American Burger with beef, onion and cheese — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Classic American Burger

A proper smash burger with a deeply caramelized crust, melted American cheese, crisp lettuce, ripe tomato, and the perfect special sauce. Simple technique, extraordinary results.

25 min680 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein

Classic French Omelette (Omelette Nature) with eggs and butter — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceEasy

Breakfast and Brunch

Classic French Omelette (Omelette Nature)

Three eggs beaten until completely uniform, cooked in foaming butter over medium-high heat with constant stirring and pan-shaking for under 60 seconds, then rolled into a pale, smooth cylinder with a soft, almost creamy interior. No browning. No color at all on the outside. This is the benchmark technique that Jacques Pépin famously uses to judge a chef's technical skill: it looks simple, takes 30 seconds to execute, and is genuinely difficult to get right the first time. The tenth time, it is effortless.

5 min310 kcal1 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Cobb Salad with chicken, bacon and eggs — USA recipe

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Salads

Cobb Salad

The Hollywood classic invented at the Brown Derby restaurant — a stunning composed salad of crispy bacon, grilled chicken, hard-boiled eggs, avocado, tomatoes and blue cheese arranged in bold stripes over a bed of crisp romaine.

25 min510 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Cod Meunière with cod, butter and lemon — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Cod Meunière

A classic French technique where cod fillets are lightly floured, pan-fried in butter and olive oil, then finished with a nutty brown butter sauce with lemon and garlic — one of the finest ways to cook delicate white fish.

40 min300 kcal3 serves

💪High protein

Cơm Tấm (Vietnamese Broken Rice) with broken rice, pork chops and fish sauce — Vietnam recipe

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Meat Dishes

Cơm Tấm (Vietnamese Broken Rice)

Cơm tấm (com tam, Vietnamese broken rice) is a southern Vietnamese plate built on broken rice — gạo tấm, the grains that fracture during milling, once the cheap leftovers that rice workers and poor farmers kept for themselves — and it is most closely associated with Saigon. The usual order is a lemongrass-marinated grilled pork chop (sườn nướng) with a fried egg, cucumber and tomato, pickled carrot and daikon (đồ chua), scallion oil, and a bowl of nước chấm to spoon over everything as you eat. The small grains soak up sauce better than whole rice. Plan on about an hour of work, plus 2 hours for the marinade.

60 min1010 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Cottage Cheese Ice Cream with cottage cheese, honey and peanut butter — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAEasy

Sweet Dishes

Cottage Cheese Ice Cream

The viral high-protein frozen dessert: full-fat cottage cheese blended completely smooth with honey, peanut butter, and dark chocolate, then frozen into a scoopable, cheesecake-like ice cream. No machine, no eggs, no custard — over 20g of protein per serving and none of the graininess, as long as you use full-fat cottage cheese and a liquid sweetener.

15 min285 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian

Cottage Cheese Pasta Bake with cottage cheese, penne and mozzarella — USA recipe

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Meat Dishes

Cottage Cheese Pasta Bake

Rigatoni baked with ground turkey, marinara sauce and cottage cheese blended into the sauce — the cottage cheese disappears completely and most people can't identify it. Around 38g of protein per serving. Makes 6 portions, keeps 5 days, freezes well.

50 min480 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl with sweet potatoes, lean ground turkey and cottage cheese — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Cottage Cheese Taco Bowl

Taco-spiced ground turkey, roasted sweet potato cubes, cottage cheese, avocado, and kimchi or pickled red onion. The kimchi is not optional if you want the bowl to work — the acid cuts through the fat and sweetness and pulls everything together.

35 min510 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Crab Cakes with crab, egg and breadcrumbs — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Crab Cakes

Crab cakes are an exquisite and delicious dish. Tender crab meat fried to a crispy crust conceals a delightful combination of flavors and textures.

55 min275 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Creamy Garlic Shrimp Pasta with large shrimp, linguine or spaghetti and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Creamy Garlic Shrimp Pasta

Shrimp seared fast in butter, then a garlic cream sauce built in the same pan — white wine, heavy cream, parmesan, lemon. The pasta finishes in the sauce with a splash of its starchy cooking water. Twenty-five minutes. The only thing that matters is not overcooking the shrimp, which takes about 90 seconds per side and no more.

25 min520 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Creamy Tuscan Chicken with chicken, cream and spinach — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Creamy Tuscan Chicken

Chicken breasts seared until golden, then finished in a Parmesan cream sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and wilted spinach. Looks restaurant-level, takes 30 minutes, uses one skillet. Around 42g of protein per serving.

30 min480 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

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