Santa Claus Bento for Christmas

Name: Santa Claus Bento for Christmas
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 100 grams Plain cooked rice; 25 grams Salmon filets; 1/2 tsp Shiro-dashi; 1 Hanpen; 2 Imitation crab sticks; 1 dash Nori seaweed

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The Christmas season is fast approaching. So, I made a Santa Claus charaben.

It's ok for the onigiri for Santa's nose to be very small! The beard may look difficult, but if you cut out a pattern out of paper first, it's surprisingly easy. Recipe by good_fortune

The Christmas season is fast approaching. So, I made a Santa Claus charaben.

It's ok for the onigiri for Santa's nose to be very small! The beard may look difficult, but if you cut out a pattern out of paper first, it's surprisingly easy. Recipe by good_fortune

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

The Christmas season is fast approaching. So, I made a Santa Claus charaben.

It's ok for the onigiri for Santa's nose to be very small! The beard may look difficult, but if you cut out a pattern out of paper first, it's surprisingly easy. Recipe by good_fortune

The Christmas season is fast approaching. So, I made a Santa Claus charaben.

It's ok for the onigiri for Santa's nose to be very small! The beard may look difficult, but if you cut out a pattern out of paper first, it's surprisingly easy. Recipe by good_fortune

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Ingredients

100 gramsPlain cooked rice
25 gramsSalmon filets
1/2 tspShiro-dashi
1Hanpen
2Imitation crab sticks
1 dashNori seaweed

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Steps

1

Wrap the salmon in plastic and microwave. Remove the bones and the darkened red meat, add 1/2 teaspoon of shiro-dashi and grind into a paste. (If this is too much work, just use readymade salmon flakes.)
2

Add the rice to the salmon paste, and make one large chestnut shaped onigiri, and a tiny onigiri for the nose.
3

Put a piece of kitchen parchment paper on the large onigiri, and draw the beard.
4

Slice the hanpen 2-3mm thick. Using the paper from Step 3 as a pattern, cut a beard out of the hanpen.
5

Cut out a pompom, hat brim, and Santa's eyebrows in the hanpen. Make the hat brim longer than needed.
6

Peel the red part of the crab sticks. Wrap 1 piece around the pointy triangular part of the onigiri to form the hat. Cut the other piece out to make the cheeks.
7

Stick the hanpen pieces on the onigiri. Add nori seaweed circles for the eyes.
8

Add the nose from Step 2 and it's done!
9

Adding a mouth made out of nori is cute too. (I ran out of time...)
10

"Moepi" made a big one for a Christmas party. Cute!
11

My daughter, who's in 2nd grade, made this by herself.