"Frozen" Charaben with Olaf
I've been making charaben (decorated bento) for 5 years. I love the Disney movie "Frozen," so I tried making this.
The hands and hair (?) are bit fiddly, but Olaf is easier to make than the other Frozen characters, so give it a try.
In Step 1, I made the head too big, so I took a little off the top later. You don't have to make it as pointy as in the photo! Recipe by Karumichan
"Frozen" Charaben with Olaf
I've been making charaben (decorated bento) for 5 years. I love the Disney movie "Frozen," so I tried making this.
The hands and hair (?) are bit fiddly, but Olaf is easier to make than the other Frozen characters, so give it a try.
In Step 1, I made the head too big, so I took a little off the top later. You don't have to make it as pointy as in the photo! Recipe by Karumichan
Cooking Instructions
- 1
Measure the portion rice as follows: 45 g for the head, 15 g for the smaller body snowball, 45 g for the bigger body snowball, 1 g each for the legs x 2, a tiny amount for the nose. Wrap each portion in plastic wrap and form in to the appropriate shapes. The head in the photo is too pointy, so I fixed it later.
- 2
Make the face. The eyebrows should slant down on the outsides. The eyes are made by stacking nori, cheese, then followed by the nori. The nose is cut out of an orange bento decorating sheet or a piece of boiled carrot, cut into a tiny carrot shape.
- 3
Put a little bit of rice on the upper lip to make it stick out. Position the nose and teeth (cut from cheese) under that bump.
- 4
When all the parts are positioned as you want, remove the plastic wrap and fix the Olaf parts in place by packing other food around them such as tamagoyaki. Make the buttons out of nori. They are crooked pentagon shapes.
- 5
Cut the tamagoyaki to fit the gaps or try turning it in various directions. Stick the nori buttons.
- 6
Make the hair and the twig hands out of snaking kombu, and stick them in.
- 7
Fill up the remaining gaps with other food, like lettuce or sausages.
- 8
Fill all the gaps with other food in a well balanced way. Give him rosy cheeks with ketchup and it's done.
- 9
Use musical note and/or crystal shaped bento picks, keeping with Frozen's movie themes.
- 10
I've listed the recipe for the chikuwa roll at, so use it as reference.
https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/152509-rolled-chikuwa-for-your-bento
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