The culinary art of Japan is multifaceted. Bento sushi can to characterize as creativity bright, free, without borders. Look at the bento photo! Prepare a pig and a cat from rice for the children. They certainly did not expect such a fabulous lunch or snack.
Bento – surprise box
Before you cook the bento, prepare some elegant boxes. Fairy-tale heroes will “live” in them. Japanese tradition to cook for children their favorite rice heroes for many years. Fantasy Japanese moms have no boundaries. What just do not offer shops for fashionable hobbies! Molds where it’s convenient to prepare the details of the figures, dividers, cliches, special scissors. We have prepared for you not complicated recipe. Anyone can cope with Bento’s culinary tale mommy.
To cook a bento pig and a bento cat to you will need:
- Rice (choose “for sushi”, as the rice is sticky) – 2 cups
- Rice vinegar (you can replace with apple cider if you can’t buy rice) – about 3 tablespoons
- Beetroot, carrot, green salad, cherry, broccoli, olives, eggs – to decorate bento sushi.
- Cheese (without holes), milk sausage – for details of animals bento.
You can cook bento sushi (cat and pig) So:
Start with rice. Prepare the product in Japanese. Rinse. Fill in 0.5 l of water (cold) and leave for half an hour. Cook over medium heat. about 10min. and only with the lid closed. Once your pic will start to boil, note the time. Exactly 4 minutes should pass. Decrease to the very minimum fire and leave to be cooked product for approximately 15 minutes Now it’s important to evaporate the water if it is stayed. You can just make the fire maximum. Only Be sure to cover the future base. Then the rice will be like would reach from its temperature.
In vinegar, add a little sugar to taste, you can salt. Pour in a little bit in rice this mixture and try the mass to taste.
Divide the rice mass. You will need 3 balls for pink pigs, 1 white ball for the head of a cat and 1 yellow ball for her tummy.
Add beetroot juice to bento sushi rice mass I. It will become pink; in III – carrot juice.
If you cook broccoli, which is very useful for children, boil a little inflorescence in water with lemon. Then broccoli will be able to save 
its bright color.
Look carefully at the bento photo! Cut parts for your heroes. From cheese – a hat of a cat, from sausage or ham – ears, piglets of pigs. It is convenient to cut eyes and antennae from olives ( cats), strips for fish.
Depending on the shape (bento box), fantasize with greens, slices of vegetables.
Tasty ideas
You can experiment with bento sushi as you like. But also It’s more interesting to cook a “fairy tale” with children! See how they do it mothers from the women’s club “Elis”. It’s possible that the lessons are Bento. Cooking Together with children, “will become a delicious hobby for your family.
