Angry Birds Bento

Recipe: Angry Birds Bento愤怒鸟弁当

Ingredients

Red Rice ¼ cup hot cooked white rice marinara sauce / pasta sauce / ketchup (1 TBSP or to taste) Green Rice ¼ cup hot cooked white rice pesto sauce (½ cup spinach leaves, 3 - 4 sprigs of fresh basil leaves, 1 garlic clove, ½ TBSP pine nuts, 1 TBSP olive oil, dash of ground black pepper, pinch of salt) or mashed boiled peas Yellow Rice ¼ cup hot cooked white rice 1/8 tsp. to ¼ tsp. turmeric powder White Rice ¼ cup hot cooked white rice

Eyes white parts: kamaboko slices / white part of an hard boiled egg / white cheese Eyes black parts & black eyebrows: nori sheets Red eyebrows: red capsicum Beaks: carrot Ears of green pig: edamame Nose of green pig: cucumber slice with skin on Black crown: nori sheet Red crown: red capsicum In the lunch box red fermented bean curd fried chicken steamed yellow corns lettuce cherry tomatoes

Measurements: tsp. = teaspoon | TBSP = tablespoon

Preparation
1. Red rice: Mix ¼ cup hot rice with about 1 TBSP marinara sauce / pasta sauce / ketchup.	2. Green rice: Blend all pesto sauce ingredients into a paste. Then mix with ¼ cup hot rice.	3. Yellow rice: Mix ¼ cup hot rice with turmeric powder.
4. Put green rice on a piece of cling wrap. Gather all sides of the cling wrap to wrap it up. Then twist to secure and tighten rice into a ball.	5. Place 2½ to 3 TBSP of yellow rice on a piece of cling wrap. Wrap it up and twist to secure and tighten rice into a ball.	6. Lightly press to shape yellow rice into a semi sphere. Repeat steps 5 to 6 to make a shorter white semi sphere rice ball with 1½ to 2 TBSP of hot white rice.
7. Combine yellow semi sphere rice ball and white semi sphere rice ball in step 6 to merge into an round rice ball on a piece of cling wrap.	8. Wrap rice ball in step 7 in cling wrap, twist and tighten the rice ball.	9. Shape rice ball in step 8 into a rounded corner triangle shape.
10. Place 2½ to 3 TBSP red rice and 1½ TBSP white rice on a piece of cling wrap.	11. Wrap up rice in step 10 in cling wrap, then twist and tighten into a ball like the yellow rice ball in step 8.	12. Press to shape red white rice ball accordingly if needed.
13. All three rice balls are ready. Remain rice balls wrapped in cling wrap until ready to use.	14. Thinly slice kamaboko or hard boiled egg white.	15. Cut out 2 rounds from sliced kamboko or egg white for the white of eyes of green pig with a straw. Then cut 4 more bigger rounds with scissors.
16. Cut out the black parts of eyes from nori sheet using a puncher or scissors.	17. Cut out a slice of red capsicum and thin it with knife. Cut out the red eyebrows for yellow angry bird.	18. Cut a thin slice of cucumber with skin on. Then cut out the nose of green pig.
19. Prepare and cut out any other features of the angry birds. Eyes of the angry birds were changed to bigger sizes in step 27.	20. Cut out a heart shape with red capsicum to use as the crown of red angry bird.	21. Fold a piece of nori sheet and cut out 2 pieces of same shape black crown for the yellow angry bird.
22. Stick together the black crowns with rice, place a toothpick or spaghetti strip in between.	23. Cut beaks with carrot.	24. Put on the eyebrows and eyes on red angry bird while rice is still warm.
25. Put on the eyebrows and eyes on yellow angry bird while rice is still warm.	26. Put on the eyebrows, eyes, and nose on green pig. Put edamame on toothpicks or spaghetti strips and put them on.	27. Put on the beaks and crown on angry birds accordingly.
28. Line lunch box with lettuce. Then, put the angry birds on cupcake cups and arrange them in the lunch box.	29. Finally, arrange steamed yellow corn, red fermented bean curd fried chicken, and cherry tomatoes in the box.

Notes

Put on the eyebrows, eyes, nose, etc on angry birds when the rice is still hot or warm. Stick with honey if they keep falling down.