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Obento

URL: https://www.chopstickchronicles.com/obento/

Ingredients

The main components

  • 150 g cooked rice
  • 5 g butter
  • ¼ onion finely chopped
  • 250 g ground pork
  • ½ large egg
  • pinch salt
  • 1 tsp katakuriko (potato starch)
  • 600 ml oil for deep fry
  • ¼ cup water
  • pinch torigara soup powder
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • ½ tbsp mirin
  • 1 tbsp rice vinegar
  • 1 tsp katakuriko (potato starch)

Tamagoyaki (Rolled Egg Roll)

  • large eggs
  • ½ tbsp shirodashi
  • ¼ sheet nori
  • ½ tbsp oil

Potato Salad

  • ¼ onion
  • ½ lebanese cucumber sliced
  • 350 g potatoes
  • 50 g ham chopped
  • 2 tbsp Kewpie Japanese mayonnaise
  • pinch salt to taste

Other Fillings

  • 4 parboiled sugar snap peas
  • 1 bunch broccolini
  • 1 mini tomato
  • 2 shiso leaves
  • to garnish parsley

Instructions

  1. Prepare the sweet and sour meatballs by cooking onions in butter until soft, then combining with ground pork, egg, salt, and potato starch to form meatballs.
  2. Deep fry the meatballs until golden brown and set aside.
  3. Make the sauce by simmering water, torigara soup powder, soy sauce, sugar, mirin, rice vinegar, and potato starch until thickened, then coat the meatballs in the sauce.
  4. For the tamagoyaki, mix eggs with shirodashi, cook in a rectangular pan, and roll them up with nori inside.
  5. Prepare the potato salad by soaking onion, slicing cucumber, boiling and mashing potatoes, then mixing with ham and mayonnaise.
  6. Assemble the bento by placing rice first, followed by meatballs, sugar snap peas, rolled egg, tomato, and potato salad, filling any gaps with green vegetables and parsley.

Nutrition Facts (estimated)

Servings
1
Calories
542
Total fat
177g
Total carbohydrates
28g
Total protein
21g
Sodium
563mg
Cholesterol
181mg

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