Hinamatsuri Charaben Rilakkuma Hina Dolls
- 100 grams Hot cooked white rice
- 1 dash Mentsuyu (or furikake)
- 1 Ham
- 1 Nori seaweed
- 1 Usuyaki tamago
- 1 Wiener sausage
- 1 Cheese bites
- 1 piece Snacking kombu
- Divide the rice into two portions.
- Leave the rice for Korilakkuma white, and mix the rice for Rilakkuma with mentsuyu or furikake to color it brown.
- Wrap both portions in plastic wrap to form oval shaped balls.
- Cut an oval out of the ham using a cutter, and slice off each end into a natural curve.
- Place the ham on top of the white rice ball so that it is well balanced.
- Make some small cuts around the edge of the ham so that it's easier to wrap around the rice balls.
- Wrap the ham and rice in plastic, and press together.
- Cut the nori seaweed in the same way.
- Cut an oval out of the top edge with the cutter as in Step 2, and then just cut off each end with scissors as shown.
- Easy.
- Wrap the nori around the brown rice ball so that it's well balanced.
- Press over the plastic wrap.
- Cut the ears for Korilakkuma out of the candy sized cheese, and the ears for Rilakkuma out of wiener sausages.
- The ears should be 5 mm wide.
- Use an oval cutter and a small oval shaped cutter to cut the outer and inner lines of the ears.
- Tidy up the shapes and pierce with small strands of spaghetti.
- Put the rice balls in a bento box, and stick on the ears.
- Cut out the parts that go on the ears.
- For Korilakkuma, cut them out of the ham, and for Rilakkuma, cut them out of the thin omelette.
- Use a tiny oval cutter, and slice off one end as shown.
- Put the pieces from Step 10 on the ears, and secure with small strands of spaghetti.
- Cut out a fan for the princess (Korilakkuma) and a scepter for the prince (Rilakkuma) out of the omelette, and secure on the rice balls with small strands of spaghetti.
- Cut two pieces out for the scepter as shown.
- (If you don't have an appropriate cutter, just cut the shapes out with a knife.)
- Cut 2 tiny oval shapes out of the sliced cheese, and place them on the lower half of the faces.
- Secure with a spaghetti strand..
- Make the face parts with nori seaweed.
- Cut the prince's hat out of the snacking kombu seaweed using scissors.
- To make the princess's crown, cut a flower shape out of the omelette, cut off one end, and secure with spaghetti strands.
- Put the head dress on top of the princess's head (Korilakkuma) to finish.
white rice, ham, usuyaki, sausage, bites, snacking kombu
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/171840-hinamatsuri-charaben-rilakkuma-hina-dolls (may not work)