To Celebrate the New Year: Horse Bento Character Bento

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A Chinese zodiac character bento.

Form it into a long face like a horse. Recipe by Mai*Mai

To Celebrate the New Year: Horse Bento Character Bento

A Chinese zodiac character bento.

Form it into a long face like a horse. Recipe by Mai*Mai

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Ingredients

1 serving
  1. 1rice bowl Plain cooked rice
  2. 1●Soy sauce, mentsuyu, or similar
  3. 1Satsuma-age (weiners)
  4. 1Nori seaweed
  5. 1Cheese (or kamaboko)
  6. 2short pieces Pasta (to hold the pieces together)

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Add the "●" ingredients to the rice and mix. Cover in cling film and form into the shape of the top half of the face. Form the white rice into the shape of the bottom half of the face, and join them together.

  2. 2

    How to make the ears: Gouge out a piece of satsuma-age with a round cutter and cut it in half.

  3. 3

    How to make the parts: Ears - satsuma-age. Mane - nori seaweed. Line on the face - cheese. Eyes - nori seaweed and cheese. Nose holes - nori seaweed.

  4. 4

    Here are the tools I used.

  5. 5

    Place the onigiri into the bento box and fix the ears on with the pasta. Once you fix on the other parts, you're finished.

  6. 6

    Here's a mini horse.

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