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Shrimp fried rice

Name: Shrimp fried rice
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 500 g cooked white rice, day-old, cold; 400 g shrimp, peeled; 3 eggs egg, beaten; 1 1/2 cups frozen peas with oil; 2 carrots mature carrots, diced small; 4 stalks green onion, sliced; 3 cloves garlic, minced; 1 tbsp canola oil; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tsp sesame oil

Day-old rice, shrimp, egg and peas in a very hot pan. Shrimp is the seafood Americans eat most and fried rice is where a lot of it goes — and with the oil kept to a tablespoon this is a far better-scoring plate than takeaway versions suggest.

Time: 25 min (10 prep + 15 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 406 kcal
Protein: 27 g

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

Ingredients

500 g cooked white rice, day-old, cold500 g
400 g shrimp, peeled400 g
3 eggs egg, beaten150 g
1 1/2 cups frozen peas with oil200 g
2 carrots mature carrots, diced small120 g
4 stalks green onion, sliced40 g
3 cloves garlic, minced9 g
1 tbsp canola oil14 g
2 tbsp soy sauce30 g
2 tsp sesame oil8 g

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Steps

Cold day-old rice is not a suggestion — fresh rice steams and clumps. If you only have fresh, spread it on a tray and freeze it for 20 minutes.
Get the pan very hot. Scramble the eggs in half the oil, break them up, and tip them out.
Add the rest of the oil, then the shrimp, and cook 2 minutes until just pink. Add the carrot, garlic and peas for 2 minutes more.
Add the rice, press it flat and leave it alone for a minute at a time so it toasts rather than stirs. Return the egg, add the soy sauce, sesame oil and green onion, toss once and serve.

Alternative

Cauliflower fried ricericed cauliflower instead62

Why this score

solidly filling

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

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

27% of kcal

74% water

10 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: 1622 kcal goes into the pot, 1471 g of ingredients comes out as ~1380 g of food → 118 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: 118
Protein: (27%); 8 g
Fat: (26%); 3 g
Carbohydrates: (47%); 14 g
of which sugar: 1 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 277 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.