Japanese Lunch Box Recipes
57 ingredients · 52 steps · from JAPANESE COOKING CHANNEL
Ingredients
- Road omelette ingredients
- Salmon
- Butter
- Snap beans
- Salt
- Pepper
- Olive oil
- Carrot
- Gray mustard
- Honey
- Pork sauce
- Boiled egg
- Chicken
- Potato starch
- Frozen spinach
- Corn
- Soy sauce
- Sake meringue
- Sugar
- Eggshell
- Chicken tenders
- Flour
- Parmesan cheese
- Panko
- Broccoli
- Bonito shavings
- Snap pieces
- Ground chicken
- Grated ginger
- Sake meringue
- Sesame oil
- Scrambled egg
- Red pickled ginger
- Flour
- Beetle egg
- Cold pork
- Mini rolled omelette ingredients
- Cabbage
- Rice vinegar
- Soy sauce
- Sugar
- Frozen shrimp
- Potato starch
- Bitter egg
- Ketchup
- Miso paste
- Red pepper
- Grated ginger
- Grated garlic
- Rice vinegar
- Sake
- Soy sauce
- Sugar
- Stock powder
- Minced green onion
- Broccoli for topping
- Shredded carrot
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Steps
- Make road omelette.
- Grill salmon with butter, taking three to four minutes on each side.
- Remove string from snap beans and microwave at 500 watts for 40 seconds.
- Season snap beans with salt, pepper, and olive oil.
- Microwave a sized carrot with a peeler at 500 watts for 40 seconds.
- Season the carrot with salt, pepper, gray mustard, and honey.
- Add pork sauce when cooked; adjust amount to preference.
- Pack in bento box.
- Boil eggs.
- Cut chicken into bite size pieces, sprinkle with salt and pepper, then thinly cut with potato starch.
- Bake chicken for 3 minutes on each side, pouring a little oil as needed.
- Microwave frozen spinach and corn at 500 watts for 40 seconds.
- Season the spinach with salt, pepper, butter, and soy sauce.
- Microwave carrot at 500 watts for 40 seconds.
- Season the carrot with miso paste and mirin.
- When chicken is cooked, remove excess oil with paper towel.
- Add sake, meringue, soy sauce, and sugar to chicken.
- Boil down until a little peels off the eggshell.
- Pack in bento box.
- Remove tendon from chicken tenders, sprinkle with salt and pepper, then thinly cut with flour.
- Mix the rest of the flour with parmesan cheese and water.
- Heat oil, coat containers with the mixture, then coat them with panko.
- Drop a tiny piece of panko to check temperature; deep fry chicken in oil for 3 minutes on each side.
- Microwave broccoli at 500 watts for 1 and half minutes.
- Season broccoli with bonito shavings and soy sauce.
- Pack in bento box.
- Remove string from snap pieces, thinly cut snap pieces, and microwave at 500 watts for 30 seconds.
- Bake ground chicken with grated ginger.
- Add sake, meringue, soy sauce, and sugar until water is gone.
- Season snap peas with salt and sesame oil.
- After meat is cooked, make half scrambled egg, adding salt and pepper.
- Pack in bento box.
- Put red pickled ginger to prevent the meat from shrinking.
- Sprinkle salt and pepper on cold pork, coat it with flour.
- Prepare panko and beetle egg.
- Cold pork is coated with beaten egg and panko before cooking.
- Make mini rolled omelette with the rest of bitten egg.
- Deep fry the pork in oil for 3 minutes on each side while deep frying.
- Cut cabbage with hands to make quick pickles, shred carrot using slicer, sprinkle salt and stir well.
- Wait a while, cut cabbage and carrot dry with paper towel.
- Add rice vinegar, soy sauce, and sugar; stir to combine.
- Pack in bento box.
- Wash frozen shrimp and pat it dry with paper towel.
- Mix potato starch with shrimp and microwave at 500 watts for two and a half minutes without lid.
- Prepare bitter egg for topping by baking thin omelette.
- Make sweet cheese sauce with ketchup, or mix miso paste and a pinch of red pepper if no ketchup is available.
- Grate ginger and garlic; add rice vinegar, sake, soy sauce, sugar, stock powder, then minced green onion to the sauce mixture and stir well.
- Mix shrimp with sauce and microwave again for another two minutes.
- Grab broccoli for topping.
- Make quick side dish with shredded carrot using slicer.
- Microwave at 500 watts for 40 seconds, seasoning it with sesame oil, soy sauce, salt, and white sesame seeds.
- Start to combine and pack in the bento box.
Recipe extracted by Foodle from “6 EASY 20-Minute Japanese Lunch Box Recipes | Quick & Simple Bento Box Recipes for Beginners” by JAPANESE COOKING CHANNEL. Quantities follow the video and may be approximate — watch the original for technique.