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12 Healthy Chicken Recipes | High-Protein & Easy Dinner Ideas

This is a collection of healthy chicken recipes for dinner that are the perfect quick healthy weeknight meals to make when you’re busy. These easy chicken dinner ideas are high in protein, low in calories, and all one-pan or ready in about 15 minutes. There’s something for everyone – a chicken pasta recipe, some Mediterranean chicken recipes, super easy one-pan chicken meals, chicken salads, chicken quesadilla and more. In this roundup of high-protein dinner recipes, you’ll also find the estimated cooking time, servings as well as calories and protein for each recipe.


12 Healthy Chicken Recipes To Make For Dinner This Week

High protein spicy chicken and chickpeas

15-Minute High-Protein Spicy Chicken and Chickpeas

This is a 15-Minute high-protein one pan dinner that you can whip up with a can of chickpeas, chicken breast or skinless boneless chicken thighs and some herbs and spices. Serve as is or with some hummus and salad for a delicious Mediterranean bowl. Recipe here.

  • Ready in: 15 minutes Servings: 3-4
  • Calories: 273; Protein: 35 grams

Low carb High protein egg roll in a bowl with chicken

Egg roll in a bowl With Chicken

Leave out the deep fried wrapping, chop some cabbage, carrots and add some chicken to make this delicious and easy meal for dinner. This recipe is one of my favorite quick meals and also pretty cheap too! Recipe here.

  • Ready in: 20 minutes Servings: 2
  • Calories: 474; Protein: 43 grams

Delicious homemade chicken soup with noodles! This healthy chicken soup is easy and filling and great for a warming lunch or dinner! #chicken #soup

Homemade Chicken Soup

This is a simple homemade chicken soup with noodles and is delicious and filling! Recipe here.

  • Ready in: 50 minutes Servings: 4-5
  • Calories: 273; Protein: 25 grams

High protein One pan Mediterranean chicken recipe

One Pan Mediterranean Chicken

Chicken with vegetables sounds boring, but not this one pan Mediterranean chicken with vegetables. It might not win a beauty contest, but it will win any taste test out there. It’s filled with different vegetables like eggplant, tomatoes, spinach, there’s feta cheese and garlic inside, flavor and really delicious. This is a low carb recipe (if you don’t eat it with bread) and you can find it here.

  • Ready in: 20 minutes Servings: 3
  • Calories: 352; Protein: 24 grams

Amazing Mediterranean Chicken Wraps With garlicky yogurt sauce and hummus! These healthy wraps are a delicious healthy dinner recipe that everyone at your dinner table will love! This Mediterranean recipe is quite easy, uses simple ingredients and ready in about 30 minutes when you multi-task!


Mediterranean Chicken Wraps

This is recipe is pretty much like gyros, but not quite authentic, so I’m not gonna use the name. It’s super tasty, full of garlic, herbs and fresh vegetables, there’s a ton of flavor. This meal is really easy to make, however not that quick. It takes around 30-40 minutes, but also makes 4 servings and therefore it’s great for meal prep. There are 488 calories per serving with 58 grams of protein. Recipe here.

  • Ready in: 30-40 minutes Servings: 4
  • Calories: 488; Protein: 58 grams

Low carb High protein avocado chicken salad


LOW CARB AVOCADO Chicken Salad

This chicken salad is one of my favorites! It’s really light, but also filling – you could eat it for lunch or dinner, it’s filled with vegetables, avocado, chicken, parmesan cheese and comes with a healthy yogurt-based dressing. Really delicious! Recipe here.

  • Ready in: 30 minutes Servings: 2
  • Calories: 578; Protein: 45 grams

Low carb and high protein shredded chicken bowls


Healthy Shredded Chicken Bowls

Filled with super easy and delicious roasted vegetables, a tomato cucumber salad and shredded chicken this is a delicious weeknight dinner and leftovers are great for lunch too. This meal would take 30 minutes to make and it’s low carb – so great if you’re trying to lose some weight too. Recipe here.

  • Ready in: 30 minutes Servings: 3
  • Calories: 318; Protein: 34 grams

Chicken With Sauerkraut And Bulgur - easy chicken dinner recipe that requires almost no cooking skills - you basically put 6 ingredients in a cooking pot and cook them. This sauerkraut recipe is spicy, healthy and very delicious!

Chicken with Sauerkraut

I admit this meal might sound super weird, but it is one of my favorite comforting meals, especially during winter. And it happens to be healthy-ish. You basically put the sauerkraut, chicken and some bulgur or rice in a large pot or deep pan and cook for a while with some simple spices. Once the rice and chicken are done, transfer to a baking tray and bake for 10 minutes. This recipe makes a lot, so it’s perfect for meal prep, but it takes longer than the other recipes in this roundup. Recipe here.

  • Ready in: 45 minutes Servings: 4
  • Calories: 374; Protein: 29 grams

Healthy high protein macaroni and chicken

Healthy Chicken Macaroni

If you’re craving pasta, how about something a bit healthier and super quick…This is a really delicious macaroni recipe with chicken, garlic, dill – it’s very fast (ready in 10 minutes), healthy and delicious! Recipe here.

  • Ready in: 10 minutes Servings: 2
  • Calories: 444; Protein: 35 grams

One-pan easy chicken and rice recipe with spinach and chickpeas! This is a healthy chicken recipe that is perfect for dinner and super simple to make. This delicious healthy easy dinner is great for the whole family and it's gluten-free and dairy-free too!


One Pan Chicken with Spinach, Chickpeas and Rice

This one pan meal is filled with chicken, rice, spinach, chickpeas and it’s a healthy comfort meal that you’ll just want to eat every day. I make it all the time when spinach is in season and I have some in my garden. The chickpeas make it even more filling and add more protein and fiber to the meal. Recipe here.

  • Ready in: 35 minutes; Servings: 5
  • Calories: 319; Protein: 35 grams

Need a quick and easy dinner recipe for busy weeknights? Try this 10-Minute tasty, spicy chicken quesadilla recipe with feta cheese that’s healthy but doesn’t taste like health! This easy meal is filled with tasty healthy ingredients: shredded chicken (a great way to use leftovers!), avocado, feta cheese, herbs, spices and last but not least: garlic. Great quick dinner idea for clean eating!


10-Minute Spicy Chicken Quesadilla Recipe

This is such a quick and delicious recipe! Really good when you’ve got some leftovers in the fridge and no time. I used feta cheese in this one and found the combination with chicken and of course garlic – just amazing. Recipe here.

  • Ready in: 10 minutes; Servings: 2
  • Calories: 479; Protein: 29 grams

Easy chicken fried rice - easy dinner recipe that you'll want to eat the entire week and you can! This meal is also great meal prep recipe (makes 3-4 servings and keeps well in the fridge!).


20-Minute Healthy Chicken Fried Rice Recipe

Isn’t fried rice just the perfect meal for weeknights? It’s delicious, quick, easy and kinda healthy. The recipe is here.

  • Ready in: 20 minutes; Servings: 3-4
  • Calories: 424; Protein: 34 grams

High-protein chicken recipes for dinner - Mediterranean Bowl

12 Healthy Chicken Recipes | High Protein Easy Dinner Ideas

Yield: 3-4
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Additional Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour

12 healthy chicken recipes for dinner that are quick, easy and high in protein! Perfect meal ideas for busy weeknights!

Ingredients

Mediterranean Chicken & Chickpeas Bowl

  • spicy chicken and chickpeas
  • hummus
  • 1 cup tomatoes
  • 1 cucumber
  • 2 tbsp parsley chopped
  • 2 scallions, chopped
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 cup cabbage, chopped
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • salt to taste

Instructions

  1. Put the cabbage in a salad bowl and massage it with the lemon juice, garlic, some salt and a little bit of olive oil.
  2. In another bowl make the tomato cucumber salad by combining the chopped tomatoes, chopped cucumber, scallion, parsley, 1 tbsp olive oil and some salt.
  3. To start arranging your bowl - add some cabbage as the base, then top with the spicy chicken with chickpeas, the salad and place the hummus in the middle.
  4. Serve immediately or follow the meal prep instructions here.

Notes

The original recipe for this Mediterranean bowl is here.

© Homemade Mastery
Cuisine: Mediterranean / Category: Dinner

Hope you found some new healthy and easy dinner ideas in this roundup of high-protein chicken dinners. Let me know how it went, if you’ve made some of them.

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