460 Cal Meal Prep Roasted Red Pepper Pasta Salad
📍 Pasta salads are such a macro friendly meal prep cheat code! Today I am showing you how to make the Roasted Red Pepper Pasta Salad that’s only 460 calories with 46g protein per BIG serving!
✅ Macros for 1/4th the Recipe:
460 Cals, 60g Carbs, 4g Fat, 46g Protein
✳️ Ingredients (makes 4 servings):
300g Romaine
224g Fusilli Pasta (weighed raw)
1 lb Chicken Breast (weighed raw)
150g Yellow Bell Pepper
150g Orange Bell Pepper
150g Grape Tomatoes
Roasted Red Pepper Sauce (recipe below)
✳️ Ingredients for Roasted Red Pepper Sauce:
2 Roasted Red Bell Peppers
120g Fat-Free Feta
120g 2% Cottage Cheese
4 Cloves Minced Garlic
15g Honey
8g Nutritional Yeast
½ tsp sea salt (3g) – adjust to ¾ tsp (4g) if needed
¼ tsp black pepper (1g)
¼ tsp red pepper flakes (1g) – increase to ½ tsp (2g) for more heat
❇️ Directions:
1️⃣ Roast the red bell peppers. Spray with olive oil or avocado oil spray and air fry at 400°F for 10 minutes. Remove the stem and seeds, then add straight to the blender.
2️⃣ Blend all roasted red pepper sauce ingredients until smooth.
3️⃣ Cook pasta 1-2 minutes under al dente and rinse under cold water to stop the cooking process. This keeps the texture firm even after refrigeration.
4️⃣ Toss romaine, pasta, chicken, bell peppers, tomatoes, and sauce together.
👌🏻 Split into 4 meal prep containers. The romaine stays crisp, but you can store the sauce separately for extra freshness. Also delicious served cold!
23 Comments
Recipe makes 4 servings. Each is 460 calories. Not bad. Especially when I know I'm gonna eat all 4 😭🙏
Absolutely goated recipe my bruh!
That fire roasted sauce looks amazing!
1.840 calories*
This recipe is almost as delicious as you 🥰🥰🥰
This sounds delicious!
awesome
I did not expect that much protein.
Is it just the chicken, cottage cheese, and nutritional yeast? That's freaking awesome!
Looks so good!
I literally made this 30minutes before you posted. I finished eating 2 servings all alone. THE BEST SALAD I'VE EVER EATEN. PERIOD. that sauce was so good I was licking the blades on the blender. I will definitely be making it again.
That’s wild macros 👏🏼
GOATED AS ALWAYS BRO
Inspired my dinner tonight, thanks!
Can you do a version with out the bell peppers, I literally died when you said yellow peppers and then red. 😅
Thanks for the recipe man
Ist the nutritional yeast mandatory?
You can eat cold right even the chicken?
What brand pasta?
Thank you! 🙏
Do you need to peel off the red pepper skin to avoid the burnt parts or do you use all of it?
Good looking meal brother much appreciated
This recipe is a banger.
I tuned the sauce with a bit of tomato paste and basil and it was fucking tasty.
Instead of regular pasta, I used red lentil fusili which has 26g of protein per 100g
Also swapped the raw peppers for green onion and cucumber.
I had the biggest bowl of food since I'm loosing weight, with great macros.
I'm definitely making it any other week
Dinner for tonight👌🏽 Thank you my man🙏🏽💯
Looks fantastic, I'll be making this tomorrow. I inputted the exact ingredients that I'll be using into my calorie counting app and it came out to 515 calories per serving so it's pretty spot on. I think my extra is coming from the feta not being fat free and slightly more chicken but these calories I'm perfectly happy with.
What pasta are you using to get these macros?
I made the BLT pasta salad tonight from your video with the avodado, cilantro and yogurt sauce and it was bomb. Gonna try this one next