High Protein Vegan Recipes

Fuel your body with these delicious high-protein vegan recipes that prove plant-based eating can pack plenty of protein.

Protein on a whole food plant-based vegan diet is easy to get, so long as you're eating a variety and enough to meet your energy needs. This includes enjoying a variety of legumes, such as beans, tempeh, tofu, lentils, and peas. We love the health benefits of beans! Additionally, whole grains are a good source of protein. Here are our favorite high-protein vegan dishes, which are rich in fiber and nutritional density.

Kale Caesar Pasta Salad

Packed with over 40 grams of protein per serving, this delicious Kale Caesar Pasta Salad is a creamy, hearty salad that eats like a meal. Tossed with our rich Vegan Caesar Dressing and topped with crispy Roasted Chickpeas, this savory, fresh, crunchy salad is gluten-free and vegan.

Kale Caesar Pasta Salad Recipe

Chickpea Tempeh Bowl

Packed with 35 grams of protein per serving, this high protein chickpea tempeh bowl is a must for plant-powered endurance athletes and bodybuilders. This delicious bowl can be enjoyed warm, at room temperature, or chilled. It packs well in a large mason jar, making it great for meal prep and for taking to races and events.

High Protein Chickpea Tempeh Bowl Recipe

Green Lentil Bolognese

With 17 grams of protein per serving, this green lentil bolognese is a deliciously hearty and healthy vegan version of the traditional meat-based bolognese. Packed with protein and fiber, this whole food, plant-based recipe is gluten-free, oil-free, soy-free, nut-free, and low-fat.

Green Lentil Bolognese Recipe

Split Mung Beans

With 18 grams of protein, this one-pot split mung beans recipe is high in protein, high fiber, and low fat and takes 30 minutes to make. It's oil-free, gluten-free, soy-free, nut-free, and satisfyingly delicious. A meal-prep favorite!

Vegan Mushroom Pasta

This easy one-pot vegan mushroom pasta is delicious and elegant and has 13 grams of protein. Because it takes less than 30 minutes to whip up, this meal is perfect any night of the week. This meal is gluten-free, oil-free, soy-free, nut-free, and low-fat.

Red Lentil Dal

This Red Lentil Dal recipe is vegan and super easy to pull together. It's great on it's own or over rice. If you want to take it up a notch, wilt a handful of baby spinach or chopped rainbow chard and top with diced tomato. But you can't go wrong with this dish. It's high in protein (24 grams!), fiber, iron, and zinc. Since there's no added oil, it's also low in fat. This makes it a great dish to add to your routine if you're trying to lose weight.

Veggie Chili

This classic veggie chili is a go-to fav that I'll eat no matter what the weather is doing outside. It's vegan, gluten-free, oil-free, and soy-free, and a meal prep favorite!

Tempeh Stir Fry

This flavor-packed tempeh stir fry with veggies and brown rice is high in protein, low in fat, and satisfying. It's gluten-free, oil-free, nut-free, and vegan.

Curried Butter Beans

These creamy curried butter beans are packed with 20 grams of protein. In addition, it's rich in fiber, B vitamins, iron, potassium, zinc, and flavor. The comforting spices in this Indian butter beans recipe will make you want to go back for seconds. It's gluten-free, soy-free, nut-free, oil-free, low-fat, and vegan.

Vegan Puttanesca

With 23 grams of protein, this flavor-packed vegan puttanesca is made from whole plant food ingredients. It's deliciously hearty, high in fiber, oil-free, nut-free, and soy-free. This meal is healthy comfort food at its finest!

Miso Chickpea and Mushroom Stew

This delicious vegan miso chickpea and mushroom stew is bursting with umami goodness from the miso. Packed with nutrient density, this easy, one-pot chickpea stew is oil-free, gluten-free, nut-free, low-fat, and loaded with 13 grams of healthy plant protein. It takes less than 30 minutes to whip up!

Sofritas Bowl

This copycat sofritas bowl recipe is an elevated version of the one from Chipotle Mexican Grill. With 17 grams of protein, this delicious, nutrient-dense bowl will become a new favorite.

Red Kidney Bean Soup

This tasty, one-pot red kidney bean soup is the perfect healthy comfort food. Made in the Instant Pot, this red kidney bean recipe is gluten-free, soy-free, nut-free, oil-free, low-fat, grain-free, and vegan.

Sweet & Smokey Black-Eyed Peas & Greens

This sweet and smoky black-eyed peas and collard greens meal is a soul food favorite. The sweetness from the dates and smokiness from the smoked paprika and chipotle chili powder hit the taste buds in all the right places. With 18 grams of protein, this delicious, healthy meal is vegan, gluten-free, soy-free, nut-free and oil-free.

White Bean Kale Soup

This deliciously creamy one-pot white bean kale soup will warm you up on that chilly fall or winter day. It's vegan, packed with protein (17 grams), low-fat, gluten-free, nut-free, oil-free, and a meal-prep favorite.

Many of these delicious protein-packed meals are also budget-friendly plant-based meals.

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