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Hot honey beef & sweet potato bowl

Name: Hot honey beef & sweet potato bowl
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled, 2 cm cubes; 2 tsp olive oil; 2/3 lb 90% lean ground beef; 2 tsp paprika, smoked if you have it; 2 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp garlic powder; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 3/4 cup cottage cheese; 1/2 avocado avocado, sliced; 2 tsp honey; 1 tsp red pepper flakes

The bowl that took over 2025, and for good reason: seasoned beef, roasted sweet potato, and cool cottage cheese cover protein, volume, and comfort in one dish — with a measured drizzle of hot honey doing a lot of flavor work for very few calories.

Time: 40 min (10 prep + 30 cook)
Servings: 2
Per serving: 699 kcal
Protein: 47 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled, 2 cm cubes400 g
2 tsp olive oil10 g
2/3 lb 90% lean ground beef300 g
2 tsp paprika, smoked if you have it4 g
2 tsp ground cumin4 g
1 tsp garlic powder3 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g
1/2 tsp black pepper1 g
3/4 cup cottage cheese200 g
1/2 avocado avocado, sliced75 g

Hot honey

2 tsp honey15 g
1 tsp red pepper flakes2 g

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Steps

Heat the oven to 220°C (425°F). Toss the sweet potato cubes with the olive oil and a pinch of the salt on a baking sheet. Roast 25–30 minutes, turning once, until browned at the edges.
Meanwhile, brown the ground beef in a dry skillet over medium-high heat, breaking it up as it cooks, 6–8 minutes. Season with paprika, cumin, garlic powder, and the remaining salt and pepper.
Make the hot honey: warm the honey with the red pepper flakes for 30 seconds (microwave or in a small pan) and let it sit while everything finishes.
Build the bowls: sweet potato, beef, a scoop of cottage cheese, and the avocado. Drizzle the hot honey over the top.

Cottage cheese in a hot bowl?

Yes — it turns half-melted and creamy against the warm beef, which is most of why this recipe went viral. Full-fat holds up best.

Can I make it leaner?

Swap to 93% lean beef and the score climbs a little; the bowl stays satisfying because the protein and potato do the filling work, not the fat.

Why this score

Protein27% of calories

66/100

Low energy density152 kcal per 100 g

58/100

Fiber12 g per 1000 kcal

28/100

Hyper-palatabilityno engineered pattern detected

−0%

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1398 kcal goes into the pot, 1017 g of ingredients comes out as ~920 g of food → 152kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

The numbers

	Per serving (460 g)	Per 100 g
Energy	699 kcal	152 kcal
Protein	46.5 g	10.1 g
Fat	33.5 g	7.3 g
Carbohydrate	52.4 g	11.4 g
…of which sugars	18.7 g	4.1 g
Fiber	8.1 g	1.8 g
Sodium	1037 mg	226 mg

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.