Side dishes · Rice & grains

Cilantro lime rice

Name: Cilantro lime rice
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 3 cups white rice, hot; 2 tbsp (2 limes) lime juice; a large handful fresh cilantro, chopped; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1/2 tsp salt

The burrito-bowl base, which is really just rice that someone bothered to season after it was cooked. Lime and coriander go in off the heat, because both lose everything in a hot pan.

Time: 5 min (5 prep + 0 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 230 kcal
Protein: 4 g

Ingredients

3 cups white rice, hot600 g
2 tbsp (2 limes) lime juice30 g
a large handful fresh cilantro, chopped20 g
1 tbsp olive oil15 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g

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Steps

Tip the hot rice into a wide bowl and fork it through to separate the grains.
Add the oil and salt first and toss, then the lime juice and coriander last, off the heat entirely.
Taste and add lime a little at a time — it is the seasoning here, not an ingredient with a fixed amount.

Brown rice instead?

It works and brings a little more fibre. Use the same weight of cooked rice and expect to need slightly more lime, since the grain has more flavour of its own to cut through.

Why this score

moderately filling

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

7% of kcal

68% water

3 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

Nothing here converges the way engineered food does — no sugar, no savoury and no alcohol penalty.

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 921 kcal goes into the pot, 668 g of ingredients comes out as ~660 g of food → 140 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 140
Protein: (7%); 3 g
Fat: (17%); 3 g
Carbohydrates: (76%); 26 g
of which sugar: <1 g
Fiber: <1 g
Sodium: 400 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.