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Salmon rice bowl
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
- 620 kcal
- Protein
- 32 g
Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.
Ingredients
- 2 fillets atlantic salmon250 g
- 1/4 tsp salt2 g
- 1 1/2 cups cooked 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
Every ingredient links to its food page — same data, same score, same formula.
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
Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1241 kcal goes into the pot, 842 g of ingredients comes out as ~860 g of food → 144kcal 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 (430 g) | Per 100 g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 620 kcal | 144 kcal |
| Protein | 31.8 g | 7.4 g |
| Fat | 32.7 g | 7.6 g |
| Carbohydrate | 49.2 g | 11.4 g |
| …of which sugars | 2.2 g | 0.5 g |
| Fiber | 1.5 g | 0.3 g |
| Sodium | 1628 mg | 379 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.