Searching for Gold! Sky Island Bento

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Vegetables added with gusto! Satisfying bento

Colorful Salmon Rice

serves 3-4

Rice

2 covered containers cooked rice

1 piece (~100g) slightly salted salmon

1/3 (65g) carrot

1 sheet (40g) abuurage (fried tofu)

½ pack (80g) shimeji (cultivated field) mushrooms

½ tbsp light soy sauce

½ tsp salt

1 (10x10cm) sheet kombu seaweed

[How to Cook]

① Wash and soak rice. Cut carrot into 2cm thick blocks.* Dab tofu with paper towel. Chop thinly. Remove the hard tip from the mushrooms. Grill fish on both sides.

② In a rice cooker, put rice, soy sauce, and water. Then add salt and kombu, and everything from step ① and cook (A).

③ After cooked, remove fish and kombu. Remove fish bones and break fish into small pieces. Return to rice cooker and mix.

*the recipe used a word translated in my dictionary as “wooden clappers,” if you’d like to do your own research, it was “hyoushigi” 「ひょうしぎ」「 拍子木」

Garnish

½ sweet pepper per person (red or yellow)

10 pods of wax beans

80g fava beans

1 tsp vegetable oil

dash salt

½ tsp sugar

2 tbsp water

½ - 1 tsp soy sauce

[How to Cook]

① Removing seeds and stems, cut peppers to bite size. Cut beans to 3 cm width and boil the fava beans until you can remove the thin skin (B).

② Heat vegetable oil in frying pan, add peppers and beans, cook until wilted (C). Add salt, sugar, and water. Cook until moisture is gone, then add soy sauce and remove from heat. Pile rice into bento box and top with peppers and beans.

Thick Fried Tofu and Ham Sandwiches

serves 2

1 block of thick aburaage fried tofu

2 slices ham

weak flour (proper amount)

vegetable oil (proper amount)

½ - 1 tsp soy sauce

[How to Cook]

① Cut thick tofu so the top layer is 1.5 cm and the bottom is .5 cm thick, cutting halfway through (like a sandwich pocket). Insert the ham and coat the outside with flour (D).

②Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and cook both sides of ① over medium heat. Add soy sauce and remove from heat.

Broccoli

Add salt water boiled broccoli to bento as desired.

Sanji: Calorie save, a lady’s way!

Comic:

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