Easy Elmo Character Bento

Name: Easy Elmo Character Bento
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 White rice; 1 Deco-furi in red and purple (you can also use ketchup and yukari instead); 1 Sliced cheese; 1 Nori seaweed; 1 Carrot

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This was for my husband's bento.

If you use ketchup to color the rice, don't use too much or it will become sticky. Add a little bit at a time.
If you don't have a cutter for Elmo's nose, it's soft enough so that you can use a toothpick or scissors to shape it.
It's real cute if you make the eyes and the mouth large! Recipe by syo_ya

This was for my husband's bento.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

This was for my husband's bento.

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Ingredients

1White rice
1Deco-furi in red and purple (you can also use ketchup and yukari instead)
1Sliced cheese
1Nori seaweed
1Carrot

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Steps

1

Use your desired amount of rice and mix with the deco-furi to add color. If you don't have deco-furi, you can use ketchup or yukari furikake instead.
2

Wrap up the two different colored clumps of rice in plastic wrap and shape into balls.
3

Cut a slice of carrot about 2.3 mm thick. Remove the skin, then put into a plastic bag with a bit of water and heat in the microwave for one minute. Then, when it softens, you can cut it!
4

Use a tooth pick to cut 4 circles out of cheese for the eyes. Use scissors to cut out 4 smaller circles for the eyes. Cut out 2 mouths as well.
5

Check the sizes over the plastic wrap.
6

Remove the plastic wrap and put the rice balls into your bento box. Add the face parts and it's done! Put your side dishes around the rice balls for a colorfully cute bento!
7

I'm making other charabens that don't require special tools. For an easy Minion recipe, please see
https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/147328-easy-bento-with-minions

Easy Bento with Minions