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12 High-Protein Breakfast Recipes

12 High-Protein Breakfast Recipes
Emily Wilcock
Writer and expert10 months ago
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There’s nothing like a high-protein meal to start the day off right. So when it comes to expanding your breakfast recipe repertoire, there’s always space for something new. These recipes tick all the boxes — easy, filling, and full of protein.

 

Acai Bowl

An Instagram-friendly breakfast — best served with the most photogenic fruits you can think of. I’m talking banana slices, strawberry slices, coconut pieces. The more colourful the better.

But it’s not just photogenic — with 37g of protein it supports your gains too.

Calories 475kcal
Carbs 58g
Protein 37g
Fat 9.5g

 

Cinnamon Roll French Toast Bake

With the delicious smells of cinnamon drifting up the stairs, you’ll be hard-pushed to prevent your mouth from watering. Luckily you won’t have to wait long — in just 6-7 minutes you’ll be tucking into your new favourite breakfast.

Calories 350kcal
Carbs 37g
Protein 37g
Fat 7g

 

Protein Pancake Dippers

Pancakes are always a winner, especially when they’re dippable. And laced with a rasher of bacon — the perfect Sunday morning breakfast.

Calories 260kcal
Carbs 25.4g
Protein 17g
Fat 9.4g

 

Pancake Breakfast Tacos

The taco variation you never knew you needed — and, surprisingly, there’s no tortillas involved. A great excuse to have pancakes for breakfast.

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Protein Pancake Breakfast Tacos

The breakfast recipe you never knew you needed.

1 year agoBy Monica Green
Calories 481kcal
Carbs 18g
Protein 62g
Fat 22g

 

Jam Sponge Baked Oat Cake

A breakfast sponge that’s twist on the TikTok baked-oats classic. It’s delish, and packed full of protein.

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Jam Sponge Baked Oat Cake

Classic dessert made macro-friendly.

1 year agoBy Monica Green
Calories 386kcal
Carbs 58.9g
Protein 26.4g
Fat 6g

 

Cinnamon Baked Oats Cake

Another breakfast treat packed full of two of the best things — protein and cinnamon. What’s not to love?

Calories 332kcal
Carbs 35g
Protein 33g
Fat 8g

 

Salted Caramel Overnight Weetabix

Packed away neatly in your favourite container — this is the best way to make your colleagues jealous. When they hear there’s 54g of protein inside, they’ll be snatching it from your hands.

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Salted Caramel Weetabix Oats | High-Protein Breakfast

A sweet protein hit to start your day right.

2 years agoBy Lauren Dawes
Calories 480kcal
Carbs 50g
Protein 54g
Fat 5.2g

 

Breakfast Tiramisu

Five ingredients, 27g of protein, and absolutely delicious.

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5-Ingredient High-Protein Breakfast Tiramisu

Who says you can’t have dessert for breakfast?

2 years agoBy Lauren Dawes
Calories 395kcal
Carbs 41g
Protein 27g
Fat 12g

 

Raspberry Cheesecake-Filled Croissants

Cheesecake croissants are a real breakfast head turner. A breakfast that’s so good it will leave you singing out loud to cheesy tunes on your morning commute — we just hope you don’t get the train.

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Raspberry Cheesecake-Filled Croissants | High-Protein Breakfast

Yep, cheesecake for breakfast just became a thing.

2 years agoBy Lauren Dawes
Calories 377kcal
Carbs 33g
Protein 16g
Fat 19g

 

Chocolate-Stuffed Banana Bread Muffins

Bananas are the perfect breakfast food. They work alone, in pancakes, on top of cereal, or better yet — in chocolate-stuffed, protein-infused banana bread muffins.

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Chocolate-Stuffed Banana Bread Muffins

Banana bread meets chocolate muffins…because why choose between the two?

3 years agoBy Lauren Dawes
Calories 223kcal
Carbs 28.2g
Protein 11g
Fat 7.9g

 

Blueberry Pie Baked Oats

There’s not much that’s better than a breakfast that will tide you over until lunch time. Especially when it’s blueberry pie flavoured.

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High-Protein Blueberry Pie Baked Oats

We’ll never be over baked oats.

3 years agoBy Lauren Dawes
Calories 327kcal
Carbs 45g
Protein 17g
Fat 8g

 

Granola Yoghurt

No cooking and minimal prep — what more could you want from a breakfast? Protein? Well it’s got that too — 59g to be exact.

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Jelly Belly Granola Yoghurt | High-Protein Breakfast

Get ready to unlock a new breakfast favourite.

10 months agoBy Joni McMullen
Calories 429kcal
Carbs 35g
Protein 59g
Fat 5g

 

Take home message

With 12 new breakfast recipes to try out, you’ll be covered for the next two weeks. Now only one question remains — which will you try first?

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Emily Wilcock
Writer and expert
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After completing an internship with Myprotein, Emily returned to university to finish her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Marketing. With experience in lifestyle writing, Emily aims to entertain and educate through her work. Her focuses include recipes, real and inspiring stories, and working with writers to help provide easy-to-digest evidence-based research. Her work on recipes has been previously featured in The Supplement magazine, with a particular focus on high-protein, nutritious meals, plus advice on how to properly fuel your body. Outside of work, Emily’s top priority is food. She’s a self-professed star baker and a connoisseur of all things baked. In her spare time, she’s either cooking up a storm, our looking out for the opportunity to try out Manchester’s newest restaurants. But as a huge fan of carbs, if it’s not pasta or pasta-adjacent, she’s not interested. If she’s not in the kitchen, she’s tucked up with a book for an early night, or you’ll find her in the gym working up a sweat. Afterall, all those carbs require quite the appetite.
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