High-Protein Recipes

Buffalo chicken wraps deliver everything wing night promises — the heat, the ranch, the celery crunch — in a 15-minute, no-cook assembly job that happens to be the highest-protein recipe on this entire site. That's not a typo: 62 grams...

There is a lunch hiding in your pantry right now. Tuna and white bean salad is two cans, a lemon, an onion and ten minutes, no stove involved, and it out-proteins almost anything you could buy at a lunch counter...

A savory cottage cheese bowl is the fastest high-protein lunch I know, and it needs no stove. A cup of low fat cottage cheese, a pile of crunchy vegetables, something salty on top, and a drizzle of olive oil. Five...

The best protein shake recipes use a scoop of protein powder, a liquid, some fruit and, if you want to gain weight, a few calorie-dense extras like oats and nut butter. The 10 picture cards below give you five lighter...

Salmon patties are the best dinner hiding in your pantry. One big can of wild-caught salmon — already cooked, already cheap — becomes eight golden, crispy-edged patties in 25 minutes, with a lemon-dill yogurt sauce that takes two of them...

This healthy chicken tikka masala is the one recipe my clients ask me to make lighter more than any other. Chicken breast marinated in Greek yogurt and spices, charred under the broiler, then simmered in a tomato sauce built on...

A steak salad is my answer to anyone who thinks salad can't be dinner. Sirloin seared hard in a cast iron pan, sliced thin over greens, cherry tomatoes, avocado, and red onion, with a garlicky parsley chimichurri you blend in...

Greek yogurt pizza dough is two ingredients: self rising flour and plain Greek yogurt. No yeast, no rising time, no stand mixer. You stir it, knead it for a minute, roll it out, and it bakes into a chewy, slightly...

Chicken salad has a dirty secret: it's usually a mayonnaise delivery system with some chicken in it. This Greek yogurt chicken salad flips the ratio. Rotisserie chicken, crunchy celery, sweet grapes and almonds in a lemony yogurt-Dijon dressing, made in...

The cottage cheese flatbread went viral for promising bread made of protein, and for once the internet wasn't overselling. Blend cottage cheese with eggs, bake it thin, and you get a flexible wrap with 20 grams of protein and about...