Seventeen high-protein vegan recipes, with the mains first and the snacks and breakfasts after.
Where a recipe publishes a protein figure we have put it next to the name. Two of these reach thirty-six grams a serving, both from seitan.
One is ours. The rest are from cooks we read.
1. Root Vegetable Lentil Stew
Thirty-seven grams of protein a serving, all of it from lentils and none from anything processed.
Forty-five minutes, mostly unattended, and it makes three big bowls at 536 calories.
Get the recipe from Plant-Based on a Budget.
2. Vegan Lasagna with Homemade Seitan
Thirty-six grams a serving. The seitan is made from scratch, which is what puts the protein there.
Seventy-five minutes, serves six at 566 calories. This is a Sunday build, and it reheats for days.
Get the recipe from Bites With Blair.
3. Vegan Spaghetti with Seitan Sauce
Also thirty-six grams, and the same idea in a different shape. Seitan crumbled into a slow-cooked tomato sauce.
An hour and three-quarters, serves six at 524 calories. Long, but almost all of it is the sauce sitting on the hob.
Get the recipe from Bites With Blair.
4. Sardinian Fregola with Chickpeas
Twenty grams a serving. Fregola is a toasted Sardinian pasta that behaves more like a grain and cooks in the pot with the chickpeas.
Serves four at 589 calories. Somewhere between a soup and a pasta.
Get the recipe from The Pasta Project.
5. Turkish Red Lentil Soup
Fifteen grams a serving and only twenty-five minutes, which is the best ratio of protein to effort here.
Mercimek corbasi, finished with dried mint and lemon. Serves four at 335 calories. The mint at the end is not a garnish, it is the flavor.
Get the recipe from Plant Based Redhead.
6. Lentil Bolognese
Fourteen grams a serving at 251 calories, which makes it the lightest main on this page.
Thirty-five minutes, serves four, and it freezes flat in bags.
Get the recipe from Champagne Tastes.
7. Algerian Chickpea Stew
Twelve grams a serving at 261 calories. Chickpeas cooked slowly with North African spices until the broth thickens on its own.
Fifty minutes, serves four. Simple enough that the spicing has to carry it, and it does.
Get the recipe from Little Nomads Recipes.
8. Tofu Tikka Masala
Fifteen minutes, which is the fastest main here. Nine grams of protein a serving at 310 calories.
Press the tofu properly first. Tikka masala sauce is thin enough that wet tofu will water it down.
Get the recipe from Masala Herb.
9. Chili Crunch Tofu Bowls
Crisped tofu with chili crunch over rice and vegetables. An hour, serves three.
The chili crisp is the whole dish, so buy a good jar of it rather than making do.
Get the recipe from Plant Based RD.
10. Black Bean Pasta
Pasta made from black beans rather than wheat, which is where all the protein comes from before anything is added.
Gluten-free by default. It cooks faster than wheat pasta and goes to mush if you walk away.
Get the recipe from Vegan Dollhouse.
11. Spicy Buffalo Chickpea Wrap
Nine grams a serving at 547 calories. Roasted chickpeas in hot sauce, wrapped with cabbage and a cooling sauce.
Vegan mayonnaise carries the sauce, so blended cashews if you would rather not.
Get the recipe from Foodess.
12. Vegan Meatballs
Brown lentils and quinoa bound with flax instead of egg, baked and finished in tomato sauce.
Makes sixteen, so it is a proper batch cook. Gluten-free and nut-free.
Get the recipe from Strength and Sunshine.
13. Gluten-Free Baked Chickpea Balls
Ours. Baked rather than fried, gluten-free, and it makes thirty-three.
Thirty-five minutes for the batch. They go in a sauce, in a wrap, or straight off the tray.
14. Chickpea Fritters with Spicy Sauce
Makes fourteen, which puts them somewhere between a snack and a dinner depending on how many you eat.
These are fried. Bake them on parchment instead and you lose some crunch and none of the flavor.
Get the recipe from Chef’s Pencil.
15. High-Protein PBJ Overnight Oats
Eighteen grams of protein in a jar you assemble in fifteen minutes and forget about.
392 calories. The breakfast on this list for the morning after a hard session.
Get the recipe from Give Me The Vitamins.
16. Vegan Protein Waffles
Twelve grams of protein at only 153 calories a waffle, which is the leanest ratio on this page.
Twenty minutes and it makes six. They freeze and go straight into a toaster.
Get the recipe from Nuts and Twigs.
17. Peanut Butter Energy Balls
Thirty minutes and it makes fifteen. Peanut butter and oats, rolled and chilled.
The recipe offers honey or maple syrup. Take the maple.
Get the recipe from VegCookBook.
Seitan, lentils, or both
The two thirty-six gram meals here both use homemade seitan, which is vital wheat gluten and about ten minutes of kneading. It is the highest-protein plant food there is and the least known.
Lentils get you most of the way with none of the effort, which is why they turn up four times on this page.
And, always, seek health consciously.
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