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Anime Characters Lunchbox
Chara-ben is a shortened word of characters Bento (lunchbox), which expresses anime characters using foods.
Japanese moms started making Chara-ben for kids’ lunch boxes to make them.The Chara-ben is very cute (Kawaii) and kid’s can proud it toward their friends.
Kid’s can eat dislike foods as well because of cute shapes and character.
Nowadays, it is a boom and there are lots of recipe books and contests. Many Japanese people are having fun to post pics of Chara-ben on multiple SNS. As a result Chara-bens are becoming popular in the world!
https://jp.pinterest.com/whysojapan/japanese-kyaraben-bento/
Let’s try making Chara-ben and share pics with friends on SNS!
Gaspard and Lisa
Gaspard et Lisa, more commonly known as Gaspard and Lisa, are two fictional characters appearing in a series of children’s books created by wife and husband Anne Gutman and Georg Hallensleben. Wikipedia
Ingredients
- Ingredients service for 1box
- Quantity
For Lisa
- Cooked rice 炊いたご飯
- 0.25 rice cup
- Salt しお
- 1/8 teaspoon
- Nori seaweed sheet
(for eyes and nose) のり - 5×5
cm - Surimi
(for scarf and filling of rice ball) すり身 - 1
piece - Mayonnaise
(for filling of rice ball) マヨネーズ - 1/2
teaspoon - Miso paste
(for filling of rice ball) みそ - 1/4
teaspoon
For Gaspard
- Cooked rice
- 0.25 rice cup
- Salt しお
- 1/8 teaspoon
- Nori seaweed sheet
(for face, ears and eyes) のり - 1
sheet - Sliced cheese
(for white of eye) スライスチーズ - 1/4
sheet - Surimi
(for nose and filling of rice ball) すり身 - 1
piece - Mayonnaise
(for filling of rice ball) マヨネーズ - 1/2
teaspoon - Miso paste
(for filling of rice ball) みそ - 1/4
teaspoon
For Gaspard
- Cooked rice
- 0.25 rice cup
- Salt しお
- 1/8 teaspoon
- Nori seaweed sheet
(for face, ears and eyes) のり - 1 sheet
- Sliced cheese
(for white of eye) スライスチーズ - 1/4 sheet
- Surimi
(for nose and filling of rice ball) すり身 - 1 piece
- Mayonnaise
(for filling of rice ball) マヨネーズ - 1/2 teaspoon
- Miso paste
(for filling of rice ball) みそ - 1/4 teaspoon
Yellow flowers
- Egg 卵
- 1 piece(use 1/3only)
- Soup stock だし
- 1/2 teaspoon
- Mirin みりん
- 1/2 teaspoon
- Salt しお
- 1 pinch
Pink flowers
- Sliced ham
- 1 sheet
- Sliced cheese
- 1/2 sheet
French Flag
- Sliced cheese スライスチーズ
- 1/2 sheet
- Surimi すり身
- 1 piece
- Egg without yolk 卵白
- 1 piece
- Food coloring Blue
- 1 pinch
Eiffel Tower
- Sliced cheese
- 1/2 sheet
Surrounding(for green and others)
- Parsley
- 1/2 measuring cup
- Lettuce
- 1 or 2 sheet
- Small sausage ソーセージ小
- 1 piece
Tools
*This time it’s better to use the following kitchen tools for your convenience.
- Ruler
- Small knife
- Scissors
- Plastic straw
- Plastic forms
- Tweezers
- Punchers
Direction
First of all
Make the filling of rice ball.
Remove the surface Red only from 2 Surimis. Then, cut their white parts into small dice. Marinate white parts with Mayonnaise and Miso paste.
Decollation
Place lettuce to follow the shape of box as decollation.
Lisa
1) Make small rice balls for Lisa’s face, ears and body by cooking wrap as below.
*Please note the ball for Lisa’s face that’s including above seasoned Surimi as its filling.
2) Make Lisa’s eye and nose by Nori seaweed sheet and sliced cheese. Punch Nori sheet by puncher to make 2 parts of ellipse as Lisa’s eyes. Put them on sliced cheese and cut the cheese along a outline of Nori by small knife. For her nose, cut Nori sheet as ellipse as below.
3) Use Lisa’s scarf by a surface Red of Surimi.
Gaspard
1) Make small rice balls for Gaspard’s face and ears by cooking wrap. Cover the white rice balls by the round Nori sheets.
*Please note the ball for Gaspard’s face that’s including above seasoned Surimi as its filling.
2) Make Gaspard’s eyes by Nori seaweed sheet and sliced cheese. Punch Nori sheet by puncher to make 2 parts of ellipse as Gaspard’s eyes. Put them on sliced cheese and cut the cheese along a outline of Nori by small knife like making Lisa.
3) Use Gaspard’s nose by a surface Red of Surimi. Cut it into ellipse by plastic form.
Others
Yellow Flower
Crack an egg and mix all ingredients. Make a thin egg crape using 1/3 of egg mixture. Cut it into a rectangle figure. Fold it in two, and cut its folded side every 2-3mm as below. Roll it up and shape into a flower.
Pink Flowers
Cut sliced ham like flower shape by plastic form. Make 1 big and 4 small flower forms.
Cut sliced cheese into circle by plastic straw. Make 1 big and 4 small circle forms.
Place above round cheese in the center of flower shaped ham.
French Flag
Make Blue part of Flag by egg. Mix an egg(without yolk) and a pinch of Food coloring Blue together. Use its egg mixture to make thin crape. Cut its crape as below.
Cut a surface Red of Surimi as below
Cut sliced cheese into rectangle. Place above Blue and Red parts on the rectangle cheese like French Flag.
Eiffel tower
Cut sliced cheese into rectangle shape. Mark the center of upper base and remove ★ parts to make triangle. Take out ? by the plastic ellipse form. Finally make the tower figure by small knife as below.
Surroundings
Cut red sausage into a half. Fry 1 minute with1/4 teaspoon of oil.
Place all parts of Lisa and Gaspard like following picture.
Decollate Parsley, Sausages, Flowers, Eiffel tower and Flag along the surrounding Lisa and Gaspard.
