Character Bento: Sakura and Tsukushi (Horsetail Shoots)- Sakura Viewing Bento

• 50 grams Hot cooked rice
• 1/2 tsp Mentsuyu concentrated noodle sauce (3x concentrate)
• 50 grams Hot cooked rice
• 1 Your favorite rice seasonings
• 1 Ham
• 1 Nori seaweed
• 1 Sliced cheese
• 1 Broccoli stems
• 1 Uncooked spaghetti noodle

1. Mix the mentsuyu sauce with the rice, wrap in plastic wrap, and shape into a nameko shape.
2. Place white rice into the plastic wrap, add in your favorite ingredients, and make a round rice ball.
3. Make the eyes, mouth, and the scale leaves (hakama) with nori seaweed.
4. Cut the ham into a sakura shape.
5. Slice the boiled broccoli stem, and cut into leaf shapes.
6. Once the rice balls have cooled, stick on all of the parts, and it is done!
7. (Stick the leaves on with uncooked spaghetti noodles.)

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Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/171910-character-bento-sakura-and-tsukushi-horsetail-shoots-sakura-viewing-bento (may not work)