How to Make GINGER Chicken Bento - $3 Bento Challenge
Ingredients
- Chicken thigh · boneless285 g
- Soy sauce1 tbsp
- Sake1 tbsp
- Sugar1 tbsp
- Ginger · grated1 tsp
- Batch tamagoyaki½
- Rice · cooked220 g
- Lettuce16 g
- Broccoli60 g
- Strawberry2
- Carrot24 g
- TOTAL: $1.80 per serving
Instructions
- Mix the soy sauce, sake, cane sugar and grated ginger in a small bowl until the sugar dissolves.
- Heat a frying pan over medium heat with a splash of oil, lay the chicken in a single layer and fry about 2-3 minutes until browned on one side.
- Flip the chicken and cook for another minute.
- Blot off any excess oil in the pan with paper towel.
- Add the sauce and let it caramelize around the chicken until almost no liquid remains. Let the chicken cool before packing.
- Put the 220 g cooked rice in the bento box first as a base.
- Arrange the chicken beside the rice.
- Use some of the 16 g frill lettuce to separate the chicken from the vegetables; in a deeper box, line the bottom with lettuce too.
- Fill the spaces around the tamagoyaki slices (1/2 batch) with the 60 g blanched broccoli.
- Fill the remaining space with the 2 strawberries, halved if needed.
- Decorate with the 24 g carrots cut into flower shapes.
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