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Foodimals Bento Recipe
Foodimals Bento Recipe
This is a cute, colourful and healthy bento, appealing to both kids and kids at heart. It is easy enough for even first-time bento makers.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups cooked sushi rice
- pink sakura denbu (sweet fish powder)
- cooked egg sheet diced
- boiled edamame
- raspberries
Octodog
- 6 chicken cocktails
- mayonnaise
- black sesame seeds
- 1 cheese slice
Quailrious mouse
- 6 quail eggs
- 12 black olive slices
- spring onion tips
- mayonnaise
- black sesame seeds
- 1 slice of ham
Beemato
- 1 nori (seaweed) sheet
- carrot slices
- mayonnaise
- black sesame seeds
- ketchup
Tools
- toothpicks
- 2 bento boxes (or serving bowls)
Directions:
Octodog Recipe
- Cut chicken cocktail lengthwise halfway to 8 equal tentacles. Boil for two minutes until curled. Drain and set aside.
- Using mayonnaise, stick eyes (black sesame seeds), mouth (piece of cheese cut with straw) and cheeks (2 pieces of ham cut with straw).
- Poke a hole at the top of the octopus head with a toothpick and insert a cute pea sprout ribbon.
Quailrious Mouse Recipe
- Add quail eggs to a pot of water (enough to cover the eggs). Bring to boil for 10 minutes. Drain and peel the eggs when cooled.
- Make two slits for ears near the pointed end of the quail egg and slot in two thinly sliced olives.
- Use toothpick to poke a hole at the rounded end of the quail egg. Insert a cut curled spring onion as the tail.
- Using mayonnaise, fix the eyes (black sesame seeds) and nose (a tiny piece of ham) onto the face.
Beemato Recipe
- Stick two strips of seaweed onto a golden cherry tomato using mayonnaise. Make a horizontal slot on top of tomato and slot in the wings (a thinly sliced heart-shaped carrot).
- Use mayonnaise to fix the eyes (black sesame seeds) and mouth (seaweed cut to a smile). Dab the cheeks with ketchup. Poke two holes at the top of the head with a toothpick to slot in the pea shoots antennae.
To Assemble
- In a bowl, coat half of the sushi rice pink sakura powder.
- Fill each serving bento box or bowl with plain sushi rice. Then top the uppermost layer with the pink rice.
- Arrange and decorate the bento with octodogs, quailrious mouse and beemato; as well as egg, edamame and raspberries.
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What a cute bento! But I am all for ease and quick lunchbox. :P
They are so adorable! I love particularly that hard boiled egg mouse .
Oh my goodness! They are just the cutest ever, Wiffy! ♥
these look amazing! but it takes a lot of skill and patience
skill – not really, as I am a total bento beginner myself. But patience, yes! lol
Too cute to eat! :D
Too cute to be eaten! You are such a pro. even in making bento! :D How long did you take? ;p…curious….
This is nothing compared to the bentos the real pros are making. Took me 5 hours to make this (to take the step-by-step photos and the final photoshoot), lol … and before this, I tested the recipe (various animals and these three turn out best) for 2 hours. That’s why I say need patience ;) But if I were to make this again, I think I can do it in half hour.
I saw this on Facebook and squealed!!! It is the cutest thing ever and I wish all lunches were this cute. :D You are too creative. The movie sounds funny also!