Recipe: at dinner Children's Day or Cherry-Blossom Viewing Bento Box

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Children's Day or Cherry-Blossom Viewing Bento Box. We went to a cherry-blossom viewing picnic on the children's day holiday. We went to a cherry-blossom viewing picnic on the children's day holiday. The Best of Bento Box: Japanese Traditional Lunchbox.

The Mukonouchi Bento is one of the oldest bento boxes in Japan.

Its name is a combination of the words "Makuno" and "Uchi".

These terms loosely translate to "Between Acts".

You can have Children's Day or Cherry-Blossom Viewing Bento Box using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Children's Day or Cherry-Blossom Viewing Bento Box

1. Prepare 1 each of Rice balls (Ampanman, Omusubiman, Komusubiman, and koinobori ).

2. You need 1 of use as much (to taste) Hot cooked white rice.

3. It’s 1 of Salt.

4. It’s 1 of Salmon flakes.

5. Prepare 1 of Yukari (dried red shiso leaf powder).

6. You need 1 of Aonori.

7. You need 2 of Salted plum.

8. You need 1 of Wiener sausage.

9. You need 1 of Nori (dried seaweed sheet).

The Mukonouchi Bento traces its origins from Japanese theater arts.

The box also birthed the railway bento, also known as the Ekiben.

It's perfect finger food for a picnic and packs well in the bento box!

As my children are in elementary school now, it's more difficult for us to take time to travel to Japan to view the cherry blossom.

Children's Day or Cherry-Blossom Viewing Bento Box instructions

1. To make Anpanman and a koinobori rice balls: mix the salmon flakes (homemade or store-bough) with rice..

2. For the other two koinobiri rice balls, mix aonori or yukari, and scramble eggs with rice. Form Anpanmans face and carp shapes with the rice..

3. Insert a salted plum in a small amount of rice and shape into triangle to make Omusubimans face. Insert another salted plum in a small amount of rice and make it into round to create Komusubiman's face..

4. Apply nori seaweed from the back of Omusubiman and Komusubimans faces. Cut the wiener sausage into thin round slices and add to create the noses. Cut more slices of sausages and decorate the nose and the cheeks of Anpanman and the eyes of the koinobori..

5. Cut the nori to decorate each faces eyebrows, eyes and the mouths..

6. I used German potato as the filling of the samurai kabuto helmet spring rolls..

I miss seeing the sea of pink from my mom's balcony and just enjoy the natural beauty.

Koraku literally means picnic or excursion, and as you can already imagine, this kind of bento is made to be eaten outside, during picnics or events like hanami (cherry blossom viewing).

The koraku bento often comes in big boxes, with its content meant to be shared among all participants at room (or better, air) temperature.

Once again, the ingredients can vary.

Kouraku bento (行楽弁当) - any type of bento eaten on an outing, such as for cherry blossom viewing.