Children's Day or Cherry-Blossom Viewing Bento Box

Ingredients

• 1 each Rice balls (Ampanman
• Omusubiman
• Komusubiman
• and koinobori )
• 1 use as much (to taste) Hot cooked white rice
• 1 Salt
• 1 Salmon flakes
• 1 Yukari (dried red shiso leaf powder)
• 1 Aonori
• 2 Salted plum
• 1 Wiener sausage
• 1 Nori (dried seaweed sheet)

Instructions

1. To make Anpanman and a koinobori rice balls: mix the salmon flakes (homemade or store-bough) with rice.
2. For the other two koinobiri rice balls, mix aonori or yukari, and scramble eggs with rice.
3. Form Anpanman's face and carp shapes with the rice.
4. Insert a salted plum in a small amount of rice and shape into triangle to make Omusubiman's face.
5. Insert another salted plum in a small amount of rice and make it into round to create Komusubiman's face.
6. Apply nori seaweed from the back of Omusubiman and Komusubiman's faces.
7. Cut the wiener sausage into thin round slices and add to create the noses.
8. Cut more slices of sausages and decorate the nose and the cheeks of Anpanman and the eyes of the koinobori.
9. Cut the nori to decorate each face's eyebrows, eyes and the mouths.
10. I used German potato as the filling of the samurai kabuto helmet spring rolls.