3 High Protein Meals for Dinner

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Wondering “What should I have for dinner?” Thinking of something good to eat, or just something different to make for dinner, can be tricky, so here’s three high protein meals to make for dinner this week! They’re easy to make vegan dinner recipes that everyone will love. Starting with Polish Cabbage and Noodles topped with Oven-Baked Tofu, then on to High Protein Quinoa Bowls with Roasted Chickpeas and homemade Tahini Dressing. And finally, I’ll teach you to make an epic Kale Salad to use up any leftovers and clean out the fridge. Hope you enjoy these protein packed dinner recipes!

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Recipes in this Video
Cabbage Pasta: https://nikkivegan.com/polish-cabbage-and-noodles/
Quinoa Protein Bowls: https://nikkivegan.com/quinoa-protein-bowls-with-roasted-chickpeas-and-spicy-greens/
Tahini Chili Sauce: https://nikkivegan.com/tahini-chili-sauce/
Lemon Dill Tahini Sauce: https://nikkivegan.com/2-minute-lemon-tahini-dressing/

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0:00 Start
0:13 High Protein Meals for Dinner
0:31 Easy Dinner 1: Polish Cabbage and Noodles
1:29 Taste Test
2:00 Dinner 2: High Protein Quinoa Bowls
3:08 How to make tahini sauce
4:41 Taste Test
5:15 Eco friendly dishwasher tabs with Blueland
7:00 Dinner 3: The BEST way to use up leftovers!
7:42 How to make tamari almonds
7:54 How to make tahini salad dressing
8:25 Taste Test

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If you’re asking yourself what should I make  for dinner you want something good to eat you   want something a little bit different  for dinner I’ve got you covered with   three high protein meals that are quick  and easy dinner recipes that anyone can  

Make and you can have them on the table in  under 30 minutes all the recipes are going   to be written out in the description  box below so let’s go ahead and get started M mhm if you love Buttered Noodles especially  like when I was a kid we used to do pasta the  

Butter and then the Shaker of Parmesan the  green one that was like the really finely   grated Parmesan mix that all up I don’t  even think I did salt and pepper I just   had that as is this is very reminiscent  of that flavor-wise but I love the little  

Extra sweetness and savoriness from the  onions and the Cabbage it just gives it   something extra and I think black pepper  is a must on this but that’s my personal preference so these protein Bowls have  three main components the first is the   quinoa and I like to start with  that because that’s what takes  

The longest so everything else  will be ready by the time this is done so we’ll go ahead and let that cook and in  the meantime I’ll make the second component which   is some roasted chickpeas then we’re going to go  ahead and season this with some Smoky paprika a  

Little garlic salt and pepper that will cook  for 15 minutes and then we’ll go ahead and   sprinkle some nutritional yeast at the end this  adds a little bit more protein and also lots of

Flavor and the last step is to steam some spinach  and I like to do this with a little bit of chili   paste to add some extra flavor this this has  garlic and some chilies and ginger super good  

And this is all going to get tied together with  a delicious and very simple tahini sauce so I’m   going to show you how to make tahini sauce step  by step and you want to start with a tahini that  

Is light in color and nice and runny this is  going to be the best tahini to work with and   I’ll put some of my favorite brands on the screen  tahini is a paste made from ground up sesame seeds  

And it’s a really nutrient dense base that you  can make sauces and dressings I use it all the   time and it’s really versatile so what you’re  going to do is add that to a bowl along with  

Some lemon juice and water again the full recipe  is written out in the description box below but   this is really important that I show you because  you don’t want to add all the water at once you  

Just want to add a spoonful and stir it and  as soon as you stir it it’s actually going to   get thicker which is very counterintuitive you  would think that adding a liquid would not make   it thicker but that’s what happens and so when  I first started making tahini sauce I thought  

I was doing something wrong but you’re not this  is exactly what it’s supposed to look like just   keep adding the water one spoonful at a time Stir  It Up and continue until all the water is gone it  

Only takes a couple of seconds but it is so worth  doing it gradually like this because you will end   up with the perfect consistency for your tahini  sauce and now you have a great base you can add  

Your flavors so a lot of times I will do a lemon  garlic Dill version like I have here on my blog   I’ll link this one down below but today I’m  just going to add a couple tablespoons of  

Chili paste and this is great because it’s like a  flavor bomb you get a little garlick it has salt   and pepper it has the chilies which are Super  flavorful so all you have to to do is just stir  

This together and you’re done it’s super super  easy and it’s a really versatile sauce that you   can use for this recipe but I’m also going to  show you how to turn it into a salad dressing  

At the end of this video but for now we’re  going to pour this all over our quinoa chick pee this my favorite method of cooking quinoa I  think it gives it so much flavor and I love the  

Little kick from the spinach when you cook it  with the chili paste totally optional you can   just steam spinach or cook it however you like  but doing it this way with a little bit of water   and a little bit of that Sall chili paste just  seriously gives it the best peppery kick without  

Being too spicy I think this is such a good  combo so pretty much every night after I make   dinner I will throw in a load of towels and those  are usually the reusable Rags that I use to clean  

Up and do dishes after dinner we also load up the  dishwasher I’m so grateful to have a dishwasher   cuz I didn’t have one when I lived in LA and it  really does make everything so much quicker and  

Easier especially cuz I tend to have a lot of  dishes while the recipe testing that I do and   I wanted to thank blue land for teaming up with me  on this video because I have recently replaced the  

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Goes into the water and it not only is bad for  the planet going into the oceans and the rivers   and our soil that our food is then grown in but  also goes into our water supply and just changing  

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Get on to the next recipe I love leftovers and I  know not everybody does because the idea of eating   the exact same thing again the next day is not  always very appealing but I’m going to show you   how you can turn your leftover quinoa and your  leftover tahini sauce into something completely  

New and different with just a couple of little  easy tweaks if you find yourself with leftovers   like leftover quinoa and leftover tahini sauce but  it’s not quite enough to make a meal my go-to is  

Just a turn it into a salad it’s such a good way  to stretch leftovers and make a whole new meal for the dressing I’m going to use the same teini  sauce that I made earlier but I’m going to thin  

It out and make it into a more pourable dressing  by adding a little bit of lemon juice whenever   you make a homemade tahini sauce it is going to  thicken up in the fridge just because that tahini  

Absorbs a lot of moisture that’s totally normal  so usually what I will do is add a little spash   of water or a little bit more lemon juice  to thin it out and if I want to make it a  

Dressing I’ll just add a bit more so you can  really play around and make it the consistency   that you like so I’m going to thin it out with  some lemon juice and pour this all over our kale salad I love a salad that has all the  flavors and all the textures at once  

Like more is more in a salad for me I  love the sweet and chewy apricots the   crunchy almonds the creamy spicy dressing I  think the sweetness of the apricots really   plays with the spice and then you get  the Savory and the salty crunchy creamy  

Like all the contrast such a satisfying  salad and a very easy way to use up your leftovers if you want some more dinner recipes  I’ll put them up on the screen as well as some   high protein breakfast recipes that you  might like and I’ll link my cookbook in  

The description box below so you can check  that out it’s called vegan party planning   and there’s lots of good dinner recipes in  there as well I hope you guys enjoyed this   video if you did please give it a thumbs  up and I will see you in a video very soon bye