Other Proteins Archives • Beyond Mere Sustenance

Other Proteins

This category is a “catch all” that includes eggs, ham, bison, chorizo, and more… You’ll find vegetarian recipes, recipes that may be adapted to the vegetarian diet, recipes that can use more than one type of protein (ie. ground pork, beef, turkey, chicken). Some of our favorites include breakfast tacos, bison burgers, and this Mexican charcuterie board. It also includes recipes that can be adapted to be vegetarian, or can use more than one type of protein like this arroz chaufa or this quinoa chaufa.

Two black ceramic plates with 2 beef/bison empanadas with garnishes.

Peruvian Empanadas

A single Mexican burger on a toasted KETO bun with avocado, pickled onion, and tomato.

Healthy Mexican Burgers

A white pasta bowl with tallarines verdes, poached egg, and flatware.

Tallarines Verdes

A muffin pan with the prepared cheese stuffed meatballs before cooking.

Cheese Stuffed Bison Meatballs

A golden brown low carb breakfast casserole with turkey sausage, green chile, and Mexican cheeses in a cast iron skillet with colorful napkin.

Mexican Low Carb Breakfast Casserole

Two halves of a breakfast burrito with potatoes, sausage, eggs, avocado, etc. and a glass of orange juice.

Mexican Breakfast Burritos with Potatoes

Spicy Gochujang Spaghetti and Meat Sauce

Spicy Gochujang Spaghetti and Meat Sauce

Goat Cheese and Chorizo Stuffed Piquillo Peppers

Spanish Stuffed Mini Peppers

A bird's eye view of homemade albondigas soup in a terra cotta stoneware bowl.

Spicy Albóndigas Soup

Air fryer turkey tenderloin on a cast iron tray with print napkin and flatware.

Air Fryer Turkey Tenderloins

A cast iron skillet with Peruvian fried rice and shrimp with copper serving spoon and fork.

Arroz Chaufa de Mariscos

A cast iron Dutch oven with picadillo soup, a ladle, and print napkin.

Picadillo Soup

An oval cast iron dish with tacu tacu, poached egg, salsa criolla, avocado with a print napkin and black flatware.

Peruvian Tacu Tacu Recipe

A single bowl of Peruvian beans with rice, salsa criolla, and avocado.

Peruvian Beans

Bison Tacos

Bison Tacos

A collage of healthy ground bison recipes: Stuffed peppers, cherry and bison meatballs, healthy bison burgers, and cauliflower steaks with ground bison and caramelized onions.

Healthy Ground Bison Recipes

2 healthy bison burgers with Hatch green chile and all the fixings.

Healthy Bison Burgers with Hatch Chile

A white ceramic bowl with the black beans, tortilla, pickled onion, avocado, cheese, print napkin and copper flatware.

Black Beans and Greens

A healthy Mexican turkey burger on a whole grain bun, a bowl of mashed avocado, and a bowl of blood orange aioli.

Healthy Mexican Chorizo Burgers

New Mexico Hatch Chile Enchiladas

New Mexico Hatch Chile Enchiladas

A black cast iron skillet with Peruvian savory quinoa breakfast with 4 eggs, cilantro and scallions, and a copper serving spoon.

Savory Breakfast Quinoa with Eggs

A red cast iron skillet with 4 veggies filled Mexican crepes with nopalitos, Beyond Meat, onion, pepper covered with salsa verde and cotija.

Veggie Filled Mexican Crêpes

3 Mexican chorizo stuffed mushrooms with a small bowl of cilantro ranch and copper flatware and grey napkin.

Chorizo Stuffed Mushrooms

A round white plate with Mexican waffles topped with a poached egg and garnished with avocado.

Mexican Waffles with Chorizo