Penguin Onigir Rice Balls

Name: Penguin Onigir Rice Balls
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 (as needed), to fit your mold or lunchbox Warm rice; 1 Nori seaweed; 4 kernels Corn kernels; 1 Uncooked spaghetti noodle; 1 slice Boiled carrot; 1 Uncooked spaghetti strand

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

I thought of a way to make cute and easy penguins for bento lunchboxes.

This is easy for charaben novices because all it involves is sticking cut-out facial features. The spaghetti strand used to attach the facial parts will soften by the time you're ready to eat, so you can eat it as-is. If you're going to eat it right away, cook or fry the noodles before use. Recipe by momo**

I thought of a way to make cute and easy penguins for bento lunchboxes.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

I thought of a way to make cute and easy penguins for bento lunchboxes.

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Ingredients

2 servings

1(as needed), to fit your mold or lunchbox Warm rice
Whatever filling you prefer
1Nori seaweed
4kernels Corn kernels
1Uncooked spaghetti noodle
1 sliceBoiled carrot
1Uncooked spaghetti strand

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Steps

1

After stuffing your rice balls with filling, wrap up the rice in some plastic cling wrap and shape into something between a ball and a pyramid shape. Mix in or sprinkle on some salt to taste.
2

Fold a piece of parchment paper in half, then using the rice balls as a guide, make face a template for the penguins' faces.
3

Fold the nori seaweed in half and put your template halfway from the top and cut it out the shape.
4

Make slices all the way around the empty space, so that the square nori sheet will fit the rounder rice ball a little better.
5

Wrap the nori seaweed around the rice balls. Wrap with plastic cling wrap and let set.
6

Skewer the corn kernels with small strands of the spaghetti. Stick two kernels in the center of each face for the penguin's beak.
7

Punch out round pieces from the boiled carrot slice.
8

Stick the carrot circles onto the rice balls using the dry spaghetti. Punch out circles from the nori seaweed and use them for the penguin's eyes to finish.
9

Completely black penguins are also pretty adorable! In this case, punch out circles of cheese to make the eyes.