For Charaben (Decorative Bentos) - Super Mario
- 1 Hot cooked white rice
- 1 Salmon furikake (I recommend the soft type)
- 1 Colorful furikake (decofuri) - or use ketchup instead
- 1 Sliced cheese (or kamaboko)
- 1 Nori seaweed
- 1 Red wiener sausage (or use crabsticks instead)
- Mix the salmon furikake into a bit more than half the rice.
- Take out about 1 teaspoon worth of rice for later, and wrap the rest in plastic wrap to form the face shape.
- Make the ears and nose with the reserved rice from Step 1.
- Mix the decofuri into the rest of the rice, and form it into a cap and brim to fit the face shaped rice ball from Step 1.
- Make the edge of the cap brim thinner and the base thicker.
- Combine the face and cap and fix them together firmly by pressing them over the plastic wrap.
- The seams will be hidden, so don't worry if they're a bit wobbly.
- Add the cap brim to the rice ball and tidy up the shape.
- Put the rice ball in a bento box, and put the ears on.
- Cut out the facial features and hair from nori seaweed.
- Layer 2 sheets of nori to cut out the eyebrows, eyes and face.
- Cut oval shapes out of the sliced cheese, and fix them to the face with pieces of pasta.
- Stick on the nori parts from Step 7.
- Fix the nose on with a piece of pasta.
- Cut a circle out of the sliced cheese, and cut off the bottom.
- Cut out the letter M from the red skin of the sausage.
- Stick the cheese and the M on the cap and it's done.
white rice, salmon, furikake, cheese, red wiener sausage
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/145765-for-charaben-decorative-bentos-super-mario (may not work)