Recently Nicole from PinkyPiggu interviewed me for her YouTube videos and we made a Valentine’s Day Bento today.
The video also shows you how to make this cute Piggy Valentine’s Day Bento!
We had so much fun making this Valentine’s Day theme bento, it is really easy so I hope you can try making too!
I will load up the video soon on my YouTube channel too.
Here is the recipe for you!
Ingredients
- 220g cooked Japanese rice
- Ham
- Seaweed
Pink Color:
- 2 packets of pink furikake* *japanese rice topping
- 1 tsp of sakura debu* *pink fish floss
Alternatively you can use salmon fish flakes to colour the rice instead of furikake and sakura denbu.
Tools
- mixing bowl
- cling wrap
- small scissors
- small knife
- round cutter
- small straw
Method
- Add the pink furikake and sakura denbu to your cooked Japanese rice, mix well for an even pink colour.
- Make 4 tiny rice balls of almost equal sizes. This is for piggies’ hands.
- Divide the remaining rice into 2 portions and shape them into round oval rice balls.
Tip: Using cling wrap allows you to easily shape the rice into compact rice balls for bento. - Using small scissors or knife, cut 4 small triangular ham for the piggies’ ears.
- Using a round cutter, cut 2 round cuts of ham for the piggies’ nose. Use a straw to punch the ham, creating the nostrils.
- Using small scissors, cut the features of the piggies out of seaweed.
- Assemble the details on the rice-balls to complete the piggy characters. Press the ham gently on the rice-ball to help it adhere better. If you need the parts to be very secured, you can secure with some deep fried thin pasta pieces.
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