High-protein beans recipes
8 recipes built around beans, each with protein, calories, carbs and fat per serving so you can pick by the numbers.
8 recipes
NewBaked Feta and White Bean Skillet
The viral baked feta trend gets a protein rework: white beans and a cottage cheese stir-in at the end turn a pasta-topper into a dish that can carry the meal on its own.
LunchDinner
21g protein · 385 kcal
NewTuna and White Bean Spoon Salad Jars
The scoopable salad trend done properly: canned tuna and cannellini beans with everything chopped small enough to eat by the spoonful, plus feta, capers and a lemon dijon dressing. Nothing to cook, four jars in fifteen minutes, and it tastes better on day three. 33 grams of protein for 420 calories.
LunchSnack & bread
33g protein · 420 kcal
Seared Steak with Garlic Kale and White Beans
A pan-seared steak over kale that wilts in the same pan with sliced garlic, chili flakes and a splash of broth, then gets cannellini beans stirred through. One pan, two plates, and the beans push the protein past what the steak alone would give.
Dinner
57g protein · 530 kcal
High-Protein Breakfast Burrito
A burrito built to actually keep you full past 10am. Turkey sausage and black beans do most of the work, egg whites keep it from getting too heavy, and it wraps up fine to eat on the way out the door.
Breakfast
47g protein · 535 kcal
Brazilian Beef and Black Bean Rice Bowls
The Brazilian lunch plate packed for the week: lean ground beef simmered with garlicky black beans, white rice, and collard greens flashed in a hot pan with more garlic. Beef and beans together make this one of the most filling meal preps on the site for its calories.
DinnerLunch44g protein · 575 kcal
Turkey Taco Meal Prep Bowls
Taco filling over cauliflower rice instead of tortillas, so the whole thing packs down into containers without going soggy. Add the cheese and salsa fresh each time you reheat, not before.
LunchDinner42g protein · 450 kcal
Southwest Beef and Black Bean Tortilla Pie
A tex-mex spin on the tortilla pie, built with taco-seasoned beef, black beans and corn under the egg custard. Cuts like a frittata but eats like a casserole.
LunchDinner39g protein · 415 kcal
High-Protein Turkey Chili
A big pot of chili built on ground turkey and two kinds of beans, made for freezing half of it. Tastes better the next day, like most chili does.
LunchDinner34g protein · 390 kcal