Onigiri Bento Recipe - Japanese Cooking 101

By Japanese Cooking 101 · 30 min

Ingredients

Instructions

1. Remove the pit from the umeboshi. In a small bowl, mix the katsuobushi with the soy sauce.
2. Wet your hands and sprinkle them with salt. Put some rice in one hand and press it into a triangle. Make a small well in the middle, add a filling, close it, reshape the rice and wrap it with a sheet of nori.
3. Make the rolled chicken with vegetables (half batch) following its recipe.
4. Boil an egg, cut it in half, and sprinkle with salt and black sesame seeds.
5. Blanch the broccoli, then toss it with the ground sesame seeds, soy sauce and mayo.
6. Arrange the onigiri, side dishes, sliced cucumber and cherry tomatoes in the bento box.

Summarized from Japanese Cooking 101's video. Watch it for the details.

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