Ladybug Onigiri Bento

Name: Ladybug Onigiri Bento
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 80 grams warm cooked white rice; 3 imitation crab sticks; 2 sheets toasted nori seaweed (8-sheet pack); 1/8 slice sliced cheese (something that won't melt easily)

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

This is an original recipe that I use for my kid's bento boxes. If you don't have any sliced cheese, then feel free to use the white part of the imitation crab stick. Just use whatever you have.

Tips:
-Adjust the amount of rice used to how much your child will eat in the bento.
-If the nori seaweed or cheese looks like it's going to come off, fix it in place with a dab of mayonnaise or honey.
-If you put the onigiri rice ball in a bento cup or small muffin cup after completing Step 1, it will be easier to transfer into the bento box. Recipe by Meronpan mama

This is an original recipe that I use for my kid's bento boxes. If you don't have any sliced cheese, then feel free to use the white part of the imitation crab stick. Just use whatever you have.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

This is an original recipe that I use for my kid's bento boxes. If you don't have any sliced cheese, then feel free to use the white part of the imitation crab stick. Just use whatever you have.

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Ingredients

30 mins

1 serving

80 gramswarm cooked white rice
3imitation crab sticks
2 sheetstoasted nori seaweed (8-sheet pack)
1/8slice sliced cheese (something that won't melt easily)

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Steps

30 mins

1

After shaping a round rice ball with some cling film, wrap the rice ball with the red part of the imitation crab sticks and some nori seaweed.
2

Cut 2 small circles out of the sliced cheese to create the eyes. You can either use a skewer to cut them out, or punch them out with a fat straw. Make the pupils and spots with some circles punched out of a sheet of nori seaweed.
3

Stick all of the separate parts on to the ladybird to complete.
4

Try making some smiling ladybugs or packing in some 'friends' just to have some extra fun making them.