Hot Pepper Tuna Bowl

Here's a recipe for a rice bowl made with Hot Pepper Tuna. Discovered Hot Pepper Tuna after playing Dave the Diver, and now I eat this probably too often. A bit of a slopmeal, but low-effort and tasty. Probably great if you're a cat. (Don't actually feed this to a cat)

Effort Rating: 1.5/5 (lazy method) or 2/5 (more fancy method)

Mildly Spicy

Ingredients:

• 1 Can Hot Pepper Tuna
• 1 Cup(or so) Cooked Short Grain White Rice
• 1/3rd Cucumber
• 1 small glugworth Soy Sauce
• 1 drizzle roasted sesame oil
• A healthy amount of Kewpie mayo (various definitions of healthy)

Fancy/"high effort" addins

• 1 chopped green onion
• Roasted Sesame Seeds, to taste

Required Tools

• Some way to cook rice (rice maker, instant pot, normal pot, etc.)
• A knife for slicing cucumber and green onion

Instructions

Prep

• Rinse the rice if you're feeling fancy or want it less starchy.

Assembly

• Cook up your rice. Make extra rice to have later. Stale rice is good to have around. I usually make 1 cup of uncooked rice, and eyeball how much of the cooked stuff I put in my bowl.
• Add cooked rice to your bowl
• Crack open the hot pepper tuna can. Apologize to any roommates/partners for tunasmell. Add to bowl.
• Add soy sauce to darken the tuna. Don't go too crazy or it'll be too salty. A mild glug is probably good.
• Drizzle sesame oil on top
• If fancy, add green onion bits
• Mix up the bowl with a fork till an even consistency is achieved, and tuna is spread out within the bowl.
• Add cucumber slices on top.
• If fancy, sprinkle on some sesame seeds until you think you've got enough.
• Munch it up

Tweaks

You don't really need the cucumbers if you don't want them, but I like the added crunch/solidity they add. You can adjust how much soy sauce/oil/mayo you want to be healthier/less tasty. I guess you could also use normal canned tuna, but I think that might not be very good unless you add a bit of chili crisp to heat it up a bit (shoutout lao gan ma). In fact, you could probably add chili crisp on top to go a bit extra spicy. I'd probably skip the sesame oil if you do though, or it'll get too oily.