Christmas Character Bento with Santa Claus and a Reindeer
- 1 use as much (to taste) Hot cooked white rice
- 1 Bonito flakes & soy sauce (or furikake)
- 1 Nori seaweed
- 3 stick Imitation crab sticks
- 1 dash Sliced cheddar cheese (can be substituted with egg crepe)
- 1 piece Mini wiener sausages (cocktail size)
- 1 slice Boiled carrot
- To make Santa, put your favorite ingredient in the rice and squeeze it into a sandbag shape using plastic wrap.
- Make one of the ends pointy.
- To make a reindeer, mix the rice with soy sauce and bonito flakes, and squeeze it into a sandbag shape.
- Peel off the red surface of the imitation crab carefully.
- Leave a little bit of white part on one of the edges.
- Wrap the imitation crab from Step 3 around Santas body and his head.
- Wrap a thin strip of imitation crab on the middle of the reindeers body.
- Wrap both of them with plastic wrap and let it settled.
- Boil the mini wiener sausages and cut up to make Santas nose, ears and the antlers of the reindeer.
- Refer to the picture.
- Cut the antler part from Step 5 into half.
- Cut off pieces to make it look like the reindeer's antlers.
- Pack a bento box with rice balls from Step 4 and secure the parts from Step 5 and 6 with a piece of a spaghetti noodle.
- (The noodle soften and be edible.)
- Cut out the sliced cheese and make Santas beard.
- (If you do not own a cookie cutter, use a toothpick to cut the cheese)
- Place the beard from Step 8 under Santas nose.
- Cut out the sliced cheddar cheese with a round cookie cutter and place it onto reindeers leash.
- Cut the nori seaweed with a round craft cutter to make eyes and place them on the faces.
- Cut out the carrot with a small round cookie cutter to make cheeks.
- Secure them with spaghetti noodles onto the reindeers face and it is done assembling.
- (The top picture does not have the cheeks.)
- Wreath salad
much, soy sauce, crab sticks, cheddar cheese, wiener sausages, carrot
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/150392-christmas-character-bento-with-santa-claus-and-a-reindeer (may not work)