Children's Day or Cherry-Blossom Viewing Bento Box
- 1 each Rice balls (Ampanman, Omusubiman, Komusubiman, and koinobori )
- 1 use as much (to taste) Hot cooked white rice
- 1 Salt
- 1 Salmon flakes
- 1 Yukari (dried red shiso leaf powder)
- 1 Aonori
- 2 Salted plum
- 1 Wiener sausage
- 1 Nori (dried seaweed sheet)
- To make Anpanman and a koinobori rice balls: mix the salmon flakes (homemade or store-bough) with rice.
- For the other two koinobiri rice balls, mix aonori or yukari, and scramble eggs with rice.
- Form Anpanman's face and carp shapes with the rice.
- Insert a salted plum in a small amount of rice and shape into triangle to make Omusubiman's face.
- Insert another salted plum in a small amount of rice and make it into round to create Komusubiman's face.
- Apply nori seaweed from the back of Omusubiman and Komusubiman's faces.
- Cut the wiener sausage into thin round slices and add to create the noses.
- Cut more slices of sausages and decorate the nose and the cheeks of Anpanman and the eyes of the koinobori.
- Cut the nori to decorate each face's eyebrows, eyes and the mouths.
- I used German potato as the filling of the samurai kabuto helmet spring rolls.
rice, much, salt, salmon, plum, sausage
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/150537-childrens-day-or-cherry-blossom-viewing-bento-box (may not work)