Easy High-Protein Dinner Recipes

Getting enough protein in your diet is important for good health and a strong metabolism. Although it’s recommended that you consume protein throughout the day in all meals and snacks, dinner is the meal where people most commonly load up on this essential nutrient. That’s why we’re sharing some of our best high-protein dinner recipe ideas with you.

Healthy high protein meals fill you up without dragging you down and can help you manage your weight while you get the nutrients you need. And when it comes to easy meals to make, it doesn’t get easier than some of the high-protein meal recipes we’ve shared on this page. So whether you’re looking to up the amount of protein in your diet or you simply want healthy recipes that are easy to make while being full of flavor, you’re likely to find something here that you’ll want to make for dinner – and that your whole family will enjoy.

How much protein should be in meals for them to be considered healthy high-protein dinners?

Many people who follow high protein diets get between 20% and 35% of their daily calories from protein, although the amount of protein any individual needs depends on many factors, including their sex, age, weight, health status, and how active they are. If you consume 2,000 calories a day, you should get between 400 and 700 calories from protein if you’re shooting for these percentages. Since a gram of protein is 4 calories, it equates to about 100 to 175 grams of protein a day. 

At Health eCooks, we consider a dinner entree to be high-protein as long as it has at least 20g of protein. Keep in mind that you will sometimes add a side dish or two to your main meal, and if you choose sides that contain some protein, you’ll up the total amount of protein in your meal so you’ll wind up getting even more than the amount of protein noted in parentheses next to each recipe.