Canned salmon cauliflower-rice bowl with kimchi (10-minute microwave)
9 min · 46 g protein · 428 cals / serving
The viral salmon bowl made from the cupboard and the freezer: a can of salmon flaked over hot cauliflower rice, mashed up with soy, a little mayo and sriracha, then topped with avocado, kimchi and cucumber. Scoop each bite into a sheet of roasted seaweed.
Ingredients
- 1 (7.5 oz) can canned salmon, drained, skin and bones removed if you like
- 1 1/3 cups frozen cauliflower rice
- 1 1/2 tsp reduced sodium soy sauce
- 1 tbsp light mayonnaise, Kewpie if you have it
- 1 tsp sriracha hot sauce, or to taste
- 1/4 avocado, diced
- 1/2 cup kimchi, chopped
- 1/2 cucumber, diced
- 1 green onion, sliced
- 1/2 tsp toasted sesame seeds
To serve
- 4 snack-size sheets nori, roasted seaweed, to wrap
Steps
- Microwave the frozen cauliflower rice in a covered microwave-safe bowl 2 minutes. Pour off the water, flake the salmon over it, cover again and microwave 1–2 minutes more, until steaming hot. Pour off any water that has collected.
- Add the soy sauce, mayo and sriracha and mash everything together with a fork.
- Top with the avocado, kimchi, cucumber, green onion and sesame seeds, and an extra zigzag of sriracha if you like heat.
- Eat it the TikTok way: lay a spoonful on a seaweed sheet, fold it round and eat it in one bite.
Good to know
The original, with rice?
Use 2/3 cup of cooked rice from a pouch or yesterday's pot. Flake the salmon into the bowl, spread the rice over it, push an ice cube into the middle, cover and microwave 2–2 1/2 minutes; the melting ice steams the rice soft. It scores about 59 instead of 73.
Tuna instead?
A can of tuna in water works the same way and is milder; salmon brings more of the rich, fatty flavour that makes the bowl taste like a sushi roll.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 78
- Protein
- (43%)
- 8 g
- Fat
- (43%)
- 4 g
- Carbohydrates
- (15%)
- 4 g
- of which sugar
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 286 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 428 kcal goes into the pot and 579 g of ingredients comes out as about 549 g of food: 78 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.