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4 High-Protein Dinner Recipes To Help With Muscle Building

Emily Wilcock
Writer and expert2 years Ago
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New year, new meal plans. After the festive break, there’s no better way to get back into the swing of things than by switching up your meal prep. Fortunately, Marino Katsouris has come in clutch with some simple and delicious high-protein recipes to support your January goals. 

 

 

Tortilla pizza 

Pizza night but with a healthy twist. This is a new take on a thin, crispy base and delivers on taste, texture, and macros. 

Ingredients 

  • 1 tortilla
  • Meat of choice
  • Dollop of tomato sauce
  • Handful of fried onions
  • Handful of peppers
  • Handful of protein cheese
  • Sprinkling of olives 

Instructions 

  1. Lay your tortilla on a baking tray.
  2. Starting with the tomato sauce, load up all your toppings onto your tortilla base.
  3. Cook in the oven at 180C until it’s crisped to your liking. 

Macros 

Protein Carbs Fat
42g 40g 18g
pizza

Chicken salad bowl 

No, it’s not just leaves in a bowl. Marino knows how to whip up a hearty, filling salad. 

Ingredients 

  • 180g chicken
  • 200g rice
  • Handful of tomatoes
  • Half an avocado
  • 1 carrot 

Instructions 

  1. Cook the rice according to packet instructions.
  2. Fry the chicken on a medium heat until cooked through.
  3. Slice the tomatoes and avocado, and grate the carrot.
  4. Arrange it as nicely or as messily as you want in your bowl, and tuck in. 

Macros 

Protein Carbs Fat
48g 62g 12g
chicken bowl

BBQ chicken burgers 

This one’s bound to be a contender for your new fav midweek meal. Mark my words.  

Ingredients 

  • 2 brioche buns
  • 2 chicken fillets
  • 15g light mayo
  • Half an avocado
  • Couple of slices of tomato
  • BBQ sauce 

Instructions 

  1. Fry your chicken fillets on a medium heat until cooked through.
  2. Lightly toast your brioche buns.
  3. Add smashed avocado onto the bottom half of each bun.
  4. Add the cooked chicken fillets, and top with mayo, BBQ sauce, and tomato.

Macros 

Protein Carbs Fat
66g 72g 22g
burger

Fish fillet pasta 

It’s not a worthy list of recipes unless it has a pasta recipe on it. And this cod, tomato and basil pasta doesn’t disappoint. 

Ingredients 

  • 200g cod fillets
  • 100g pasta
  • Handful of tomatoes
  • Pinch of garlic
  • Handful of olives
  • Pinch of basil  

 Instructions 

  1. Grill the cod until cooked.
  2. While the cod is cooking, cook the pasta as per packet instructions.
  3. In a separate pan, combine the tomatoes, garlic, olives, and basil to form your sauce.
  4. Mix the cooked pasta into the sauce, and top with the cod.

Macros 

Protein Carbs Fat
50g 75g 8g
pasta

Take home message 

New year or not, it’s always a good time to introduce some fresh recipes into your meal planning. With these delicious high-protein recipes, we've got you covered. 

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Emily Wilcock
Writer and expert
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After completing an internship with Myprotein, Emily returned to university to finish her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Marketing. With experience in lifestyle writing, Emily aims to entertain and educate through her work. Her focuses include recipes, real and inspiring stories, and working with writers to help provide easy-to-digest evidence-based research. Her work on recipes has been previously featured in The Supplement magazine, with a particular focus on high-protein, nutritious meals, plus advice on how to properly fuel your body. Outside of work, Emily’s top priority is food. She’s a self-professed star baker and a connoisseur of all things baked. In her spare time, she’s either cooking up a storm, our looking out for the opportunity to try out Manchester’s newest restaurants. But as a huge fan of carbs, if it’s not pasta or pasta-adjacent, she’s not interested. If she’s not in the kitchen, she’s tucked up with a book for an early night, or you’ll find her in the gym working up a sweat. Afterall, all those carbs require quite the appetite.
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