High-Protein Recipes

This high protein enchilada casserole is what I make when I want enchiladas without rolling a single tortilla. Shredded rotisserie chicken, black beans, corn, and green chiles get layered with corn tortillas, red enchilada sauce, and sharp cheddar, then baked...

A real turkey bolognese doesn't need three hours on the stove. It needs a proper soffritto, lean ground turkey browned hard, crushed tomatoes, and a splash of milk at the end to round it out. This weeknight version takes 35...

Egg roll in a bowl is the rare internet-famous recipe that earned it. Take everything inside an egg roll — savory meat, gingery cabbage, garlic, sesame — and skip the wrapper and the fryer. What's left is the good part...

This is the laziest recipe I will ever publish, and possibly the most useful. Slow cooker salsa chicken is chicken breasts, a jar of salsa and a few spices. The slow cooker does everything else, and four hours later you...

A chicken burrito bowl is the takeout order I get asked about most, so here is the version I make at home. Chipotle lime chicken thighs, cilantro brown rice, black beans, a quick corn and red onion salsa, and a...

High protein mac and cheese sounds like a trick, and I understand the doubt. But blend low fat cottage cheese until it's silky, melt real sharp cheddar into it, and toss it with chickpea pasta and broccoli, and you get...

If cottage cheese pasta sauce sounds like a compromise, you haven't blended cottage cheese yet. Forty-five seconds in a blender and it turns into something silky enough to pass for alfredo — at a fraction of the calories, with triple...

Baked chicken meatballs have a reputation for being the dry, virtuous cousin of the real thing. That's a technique problem, not a chicken problem — grated onion, parmesan, and a hot oven fix it completely. Five meatballs in marinara come...

Restaurant chicken caesar salad is one of the menu's great bait-and-switches: it sounds like the light choice and routinely clears 800 calories, mostly from the dressing ladle. Make the dressing on Greek yogurt — anchovies, garlic, parmesan, all the real...

Every dry, dense turkey burger you've ever eaten had the same two problems: overworked meat and nothing wet in the mix. This turkey burger recipe fixes both with one grated onion. Each patty delivers 43 grams of protein and about...