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Salmon rice bowl

Name: Salmon rice bowl
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 2 fillets salmon; 1/4 tsp salt; 1 1/2 cups cooked white rice; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tsp rice vinegar; 1/2 cucumber cucumber, sliced; 1/2 avocado avocado, sliced; 4 tsp mayonnaise; 2 tsp sriracha hot sauce; 2 sheets nori, torn; 1/3 cup kimchi

The viral bowl that outlived the trend cycle: flaked salmon over rice with a spicy mayo-yogurt drizzle, cucumber, and crisp nori to scoop it with. Real fish protein and omega-3s in a format that takes fifteen minutes on a weeknight.

Time: 25 min (10 prep + 15 cook)
Servings: 2
Per serving: 580 kcal
Protein: 29 g

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

Ingredients

2 fillets salmon250 g
1/4 tsp salt2 g
1 1/2 cups cooked white rice300 g
1 tbsp soy sauce18 g
1 tsp rice vinegar5 g
1/2 cucumber cucumber, sliced100 g
1/2 avocado avocado, sliced80 g

Spicy drizzle

4 tsp mayonnaise20 g
2 tsp sriracha hot sauce12 g

To serve

2 sheets nori, torn5 g
1/3 cup kimchi (optional)50 g

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Steps

Season the salmon with salt and bake at 200°C (400°F) for 10–12 minutes (or air-fry 8 minutes) until it flakes.
Warm the rice, then season it with the soy sauce and rice vinegar.
Flake the salmon over the rice. Mix the mayonnaise and sriracha and drizzle it over.
Add cucumber, avocado, and kimchi if using. Eat with torn nori as scoops.

The original uses more mayo.

It does — mayo is 680 kcal per 100 g, so it's the densest thing in the bowl by far. Four teaspoons keeps the flavor; the score panel shows what more would cost. Swapping half for Greek yogurt works too.

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

20% of kcal

74% water

7 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: 1160 kcal goes into the pot, 842 g of ingredients comes out as ~860 g of food → 135 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: 135
Protein: (20%); 7 g
Fat: (45%); 7 g
Carbohydrates: (35%); 11 g
of which sugar: 1 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 378 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.