Character Bento ☆ Kumamon Rice Ball

Name: Character Bento ☆ Kumamon Rice Ball
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 dash over 1 bowl's worth Plain cooked white rice; 1/2 Nori seaweed; 1/2 Cheese; 1 Kanikama imitation crab stick or ham; 1 Vegetables and proteins of your choice; 1 dash Pasta (to hold things together / pin things down)

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

When I first saw Kumamon, he reminded me of my recipe for "Black Rilakkuma" so I thought I could probably make it.

It's hard for small children to bite through nori seaweed so I would suggest sticking a smaller amount of nori seaweed over the top, if you're serving this to younger folks. Recipe by Kerorabu

When I first saw Kumamon, he reminded me of my recipe for "Black Rilakkuma" so I thought I could probably make it.

It's hard for small children to bite through nori seaweed so I would suggest sticking a smaller amount of nori seaweed over the top, if you're serving this to younger folks. Recipe by Kerorabu

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

When I first saw Kumamon, he reminded me of my recipe for "Black Rilakkuma" so I thought I could probably make it.

It's hard for small children to bite through nori seaweed so I would suggest sticking a smaller amount of nori seaweed over the top, if you're serving this to younger folks. Recipe by Kerorabu

When I first saw Kumamon, he reminded me of my recipe for "Black Rilakkuma" so I thought I could probably make it.

It's hard for small children to bite through nori seaweed so I would suggest sticking a smaller amount of nori seaweed over the top, if you're serving this to younger folks. Recipe by Kerorabu

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Ingredients

1 serving

1 dashover 1 bowl's worth Plain cooked white rice
1/2Nori seaweed
1/2Cheese
1Kanikama imitation crab stick or ham
1Vegetables and proteins of your choice
1 dashPasta (to hold things together / pin things down)

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Steps

1

For the head, make a large slightly elliptical rice ball, followed by 2 small round ones for the ears. Cook the pasta in a frying pan.
2

Cover the rice balls in nori seaweed. To smooth out the straight edges of seaweed that are poking out, insert some cuts in a circle around the edge and wrap them under the rice, overlapping some sections of the nori. Wrap everything in cling film to let the nori seaweed soften into the rice.
3

Cut out one large circle of cheese and 6 smaller circles of cheese of the same size to make the ears, eyes and cheeks. Cut out 2 circles of the same size from the imitation crab to create the cheeks.
4

For the eyebrows, if you use a bit of cheese where there is an edge left behind from cutting out a circle you should get a nice curve. Cut the pupils, nose and mouth out of nori seaweed.
5

Fix Kumamon's ears in place with the pasta. Arrange the facial features on the face and you're done. When you fix the kanikama in place for the cheeks you'll instantly recognise Kumamon.