High protein recipes are all over social media (and my kitchen) right now, and I am so here for it.
As a dietitian, I like to see when meals have a healthy balance of all 3 macronutrients – protein, fat, & carbohydrates. Protein really does play a special role in our diets!
I’ve rounded up 30 of the BEST high protein recipes from my blog to share with you. Every one of the following recipes has 20g of protein per serving (or more!).
Let’s dive into them!
First up, breakfast recipes with over 20g of protein. Starting your day with a high-protein breakfast will help you feel full and energized until your next meal!
High Protein Breakfast Recipes
- Easy Crustless Egg White Quiche
Goodbye boring breakfasts- this simple egg white quiche is so flavorful, absolutely delicious, and perfect for your rotation of healthy breakfast ideas. With three kinds of cheese, it has the perfect amount of creamy cheesy flavor balanced out by the flavors of spinach, red peppers and green onion.
Nutrition per serving: ~210 calories, 6g carbohydrates, 24g protein, 10g fat, 1g fiber
Recipe for Easy Crustless Egg White Quiche
- Berry High Fiber Smoothie
This high fiber smoothie is super simple and only uses six ingredients. It’s creamy, fruity, and balanced with nutritious ingredients to keep you full and satisfied. This is a great recipe when you need a smoothie that’s quick and simple with an added fiber boost!
Nutrition per serving: ~393 calories, 58g carbohydrates, 23g protein, 10g fat, 13g fiber
Recipe for the Best Berry High Fiber Smoothie
- Blueberry Cheesecake Overnight Oats
These creamy blueberry cheesecake overnight oats are quick, easy, and the perfect make-ahead breakfast for blueberry lovers. Plus, they’re high protein and high fiber so that you can stay full all morning long. If you love a good oatmeal recipe but you don’t have the time to make them in the morning or they’re not keeping you full all morning, I’ve got you covered!
Nutrition per serving: ~477 calories, 71g carbohydrates, 23g protein, 12g fat, 10g fiber
Recipe for Blueberry Cheesecake Overnight Oats
- Easy Cottage Cheese with Fruit Bowls
These cottage cheese fruit bowls are perfect for changing up your standard Greek yogurt bowls, you’ve gotta give cottage cheese and fruit a try. This balanced breakfast is high protein, filling and unbelievably quick to throw together.
Nutrition per serving: ~546 calories, 52g carbohydrates, 29g protein, 31g fat, 10g fiber
Recipe For Easy Cottage Cheese with Fruit Bowls
Moving into lunch, my personal favorite meal of the day, let’s dive into the best high-protein lunch recipes with over 20g of protein per serving!
High Protein Lunch and Dinner Recipes
- High-Protein Cottage Cheese Chicken Salad
This cottage cheese chicken salad is fresh, flavorful and the perfect high protein meal prep for your week. I love making a big batch for chicken salad sandwiches, lunch plates and snacking with crackers.
Nutrition per serving: ~190 calories, 3g carbohydrates, 34g protein, 4g fat, 0.4g fiber
Recipe for high-protein cottage cheese chicken salad
- The Best Italian Grinder Salad
This super flavorful grinder salad is easily one of my favorite recipes of all time, and everyone that makes it loves it too. It’s packed with traditional Italian grinder salad ingredients– cold cuts, crisp and crunchy lettuce, red onion, cheese, and banana peppers. Then it’s tossed in a creamy salad dressing that’s to die for.
Nutrition per serving: ~234 calories, 19g carbohydrates, 22g protein, 19g fat, 6g fiber
Recipe for The Best Italian Grinder Salad
- Healthy High Protein Buffalo Chicken Dip
This high protein buffalo chicken dip is so flavorful that you’d never know it was made a little bit lighter and higher protein with Greek yogurt. Enjoy with tortilla chips, veggies or your favorite dippers! It’s perfect for serving as a delicious appetizer during football season, holidays, or any time at all!
Nutrition per serving: ~287 calories, 3g carbohydrates, 27g protein, 18g fat
Recipe for Healthy High Protein Buffalo Chicken Dip
- Easy Healthy High Protein Pasta Salad
This high protein pasta salad is easy, amazing, and perfect to meal prep ahead for lunches. It’s packed with veggies and tossed in a flavorful homemade dressing. It packs an impressive 47 grams of protein and 11 grams of fiber per serving for a balanced, satisfying meal you’ll love.
Nutrition per serving: ~598 calories, 53g carbohydrates, 47g protein, 25g fat, 11g fiber
Recipe for Easy Healthy High Protein Pasta Salad
- Easy Delicious 4-ingredient Chicken Salad
This 4-ingredient chicken salad is not only a super easy recipe, but it’s absolutely delicious. It’s the perfect chicken salad recipe for when you’re low on time and ingredients. This homemade chicken salad is great for a quick lunch, meal prep, or even throwing together a high protein snack plate!
Nutrition per serving: ~226 calories, 6g carbohydrates, 38g protein, 4g fat
Recipe for Easy Delicious 4-ingredient Chicken Salad
- Crazy Good Chopped Italian Sliders
If you love a traditional Italian grinder sandwich (hoagies, subs, whatever you like to call them!), you’re going to love these Chopped Italian Sliders. And PS if you love these, you’ll love my Italian Grinder Salad recipe too!
Nutrition per serving: ~531 calories, 59g carbohydrates, 29g protein, 20g fat, 8g fiber
Recipe for Crazy Good Chopped Italian Sliders
- Healthy Buffalo Chicken Salad
This buffalo chicken salad one of my favorite easy chicken salad recipes. It reminds me of buffalo chicken dip, but in chicken salad form! It’s SO simple. Make a batch or two of this at the beginning of the week for an easy protein to have with sandwiches, salads, wraps, or for snack plates. It’s a great easy-to-grab protein for a healthy meal.
Nutrition per serving: ~199 calories, 1g carbohydrates, 20g protein, 12g fat, 0.3g fiber
Recipe for Healthy Buffalo Chicken Salad
- Bell Pepper Nachos
These sheet pan bell pepper nachos are a fun veggie spin on classic nachos with all of your favorite toppings. They’re easy, high protein, and high fiber making them perfect for a quick and healthy dinner.
Nutrition per serving: ~339 calories, 12g carbohydrates, 25g protein, 22g fat, 5g fiber
- Chopped Taco Ground Beef Salad
This chopped taco salad is absolutely loaded with flavor and nutritious ingredients. It’s full of classic taco flavors from taco meat, cheese, and tortilla chips plus it’s full of veggies and topped with a super easy (and amazing) creamy taco ranch salad dressing. This would make an excellent high-protein lunch OR dinner!
Nutrition per serving: ~384 calories, 28g carbohydrates, 26g protein, 20g fat, 6g fiber
Recipe for Chopped Taco Ground Beef Salad
- Big Mac Ground Turkey Sliders
These Big Mac-style ground turkey sliders are made with ground turkey and a lightened up burger sauce that you’re going to love. They’re so easy and sure to be a major crowd pleaser on burger night! There’s not even any burger forming required! Win win!
Nutrition per serving: ~384 calories, 28g carbohydrates, 26g protein, 20g fat, 6g fiber
Recipe for Big Mac Ground Turkey Sliders
- High Protein Lavash Bread Pizza
Thin crust pizza lovers, you definitely don’t want to miss this one! This lavash flatbread pizza uses lavash bread for a thin and crispy pizza crust that you can top with your favorite pizza toppings.
Nutrition per serving: ~495 calories, 34g carbohydrates, 47g protein, 21g fat, 8g fiber
Recipe for High Protein Lavash Bread Pizza
- Quick + Easy Honey Garlic Chicken Cubes
These easy chicken bites are healthy, flavorful, easy, and fast. I can’t ask for much more in a dinner recipe! I love this recipe for an easy weeknight meal when I need something fast that I know everyone is going to love. Because the chicken is sliced into smaller pieces, it cooks up in no time.
Nutrition per serving: ~174 calories, 5g carbohydrates, 25g protein, 6g fat
Recipe for Quick + Easy Honey Garlic Chicken Cubes
- Easy Creamy High Protein Mac and Cheese
Mac and cheese is the ultimate comfort food, and this high protein version is made even better with additional nutrition to keep you full and happy! It’s creamy, cheesy and has everything you’d expect from your favorite comfort food.
Nutrition per serving: ~499 calories, 37g carbohydrates, 35g protein, 26g fat, 8g fiber
Recipe for Easy Creamy High Protein Mac and Cheese
- Shrimp Egg Roll in a Bowl
If you love egg rolls, you’ll love this Shrimp Egg Roll in a Bowl that’s packed with all of your favorite flavors. It’s even more amazing when topped with Creamy Sriracha Sauce, a spicy creamy sauce that takes this dish to the next level.
Nutrition per serving: ~398 calories, 54g carbohydrates, 37g protein, 4g fat, 2g fiber
Recipe for Shrimp Egg Roll in a Bowl
- Easy Healthy High Protein Pizza
This easy high protein pizza is topped with pizza sauce, shredded chicken, mozzarella and any extra toppings you enjoy. It’s done in just 20 minutes, has so much flavor and is absolutely perfect for pizza night!
Nutrition per serving: ~338 calories, 29g carbohydrates, 31g protein, 11g fat, 1g fiber
Recipe for Easy Healthy High Protein Pizza
- Easy Baked Chicken Nuggets
These homemade chicken nuggets are perfect for serving with ketchup or buffalo ranch sauce (one of my favorite sauces!), serving them chopped up in salad, with regular or sweet potato fries, or even making wraps with them.
Nutrition per serving: ~276 calories, 22g carbohydrates, 31g protein, 7g fat, 2g fiber
Recipe for Easy Baked Chicken Nuggets
- The Best Creamy Cottage Cheese Pasta Sauce
This creamy cottage cheese pasta sauce is high protein, velvety smooth and mind blowingly good. It’s perfect for bumping up the protein of your favorite alfredo sauce recipes.
Nutrition per serving: ~337 calories, 37g carbohydrates, 28g protein, 11g fat, 8g fiber
Recipe for The Best Creamy Cottage Cheese Pasta Sauce
- The BEST Loaded Ground Turkey Nachos
Is there anything better than nachos for dinner? These loaded ground turkey nachos are the absolute best, they’re so quick and easy to make, and your whole family will love them. The best part about this recipe is that it’s a simple, minimal cooking meal!
Nutrition per serving: ~349 calories, 34g carbohydrates, 25g protein, 14g fat, 7g fiber
Recipe for The BEST Loaded Ground Turkey Nachos
- Easy Healthy Philly Cheesesteak Casserole
This one-pan, easy Philly cheesesteak casserole dish is inspired by the traditional Philly cheesesteak sandwich. If you’ve never had one, it’s a classic sandwich filled with thinly sliced steak and melted cheese made in long subs or hoagie rolls.
Nutrition per serving: ~349 calories, 10g carbohydrates, 34g protein, 20g fat, 2g fiber
Recipe for Easy Healthy Philly Cheesesteak Casserole
- Big Mac Wraps with Healthy Big Mac Sauce
Craving the iconic taste of a Big Mac but looking for a healthier version? These Big Mac Wraps have all of the classic flavors like perfectly seasoned meat and tangy pickles plus that oh-so-special sauce, just made with lighter and more nutritious ingredients.
Nutrition per serving: ~370 calories, 21g carbohydrates, 37g protein, 15g fat, 2g fiber
- Viral Smash Burger Tacos
These Smash burger tacos (aka Big Mac tacos) have been making the rounds on social media. It’s a juicy burger with crisp edges and melty cheese in a crunchy, pan-fried crispy tortilla and the perfect amount of toppings in every bite.
Nutrition per serving: ~383 calories, 17g carbohydrates, 21g protein, 15g fat, 1g fiber
Recipe for Viral Smash Burger Tacos
- Easy Air Fryer Stir Fry with Chicken and Vegetables
If you love a sizzly stir-fry but want an alternative that’s a little quicker and lower maintenance, you need to try this air fryer stir fry recipe with chicken and vegetables.
It’s got everything you’d want in a stir fry, but you just throw it in your air fryer basket and let it take care of the rest! If you love easy, quick meals, you’ll love this Inside Out Egg Roll!
Nutrition per serving: ~301 calories, 15g carbohydrates, 41g protein, 8g fat, 3g fiber
Recipe for Easy Air Fryer Stir Fry with Chicken and Vegetables
- Easy Deconstructed Stuffed Peppers
This deconstructed stuffed pepper recipe (or “unstuffed peppers”) is easily one of my top 10 favorite recipes for dinner. Not only is it a great healthy dinner idea, but it’s absolutely packed with flavor- I mean, it’s literally a big pan of the best part of a stuffed pepper, the middle!
Nutrition per serving: ~350 calories, 38g carbohydrates, 36g protein, 8g fat, 7g fiber
Recipe for Easy Deconstructed Stuffed Peppers
- Deconstructed Burger Salad Bowl
This burger salad is one of my favorite meals because they’re so easy to throw together, you can easily pack in a ton of nutritious ingredients, and they’re versatile.
Nutrition per serving: ~513 calories, 35g carbohydrates, 37g protein, 26g fat, 9g fiber
Recipe for Deconstructed Burger Salad Bowl
- Ground Turkey Alfredo Pasta
This rich and creamy ground turkey alfredo with broccoli is done in under thirty minutes. It’s healthy, it’s filling, and it’s so easy that you’ll definitely want it in your busy weeknight meal rotation.
Nutrition per serving: ~465 calories, 38g carbohydrates, 39g protein, 20g fat, 10g fiber
Recipe for Ground Turkey Alfredo Pasta
- Easy Delicious Tacos with Peppers
If you’re a fan of all things taco-inspired like I am, you’ll absolutely love these veggie-loaded tacos. Whether it’s taco Tuesday or you need a quick meal everyone will love, this needs to get into your dinner rotation! These tacos with peppers are delicious, loaded with veggies and absolutely packed with flavor from peppers, onions and taco spices.
Nutrition per serving: ~404 calories, 35g carbohydrates, 38g protein, 14g fat, 6g fiber
Recipe for Easy Delicious Tacos with Peppers
There you have it! 30 amazing, delicious, and high-protein recipes that are all favorites in my kitchen. I hope you love these recipes as much as I do. Comment below and tell me which one you want to try first!
