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Ingredients
- 1 rice bowl's worth Hot cooked white rice
- 1 Salt
- 1 Nori seaweed
- 1 Sliced cheese (non-melting type)
- 1 Thinly sliced white kamaboko instead of cheese during summer
Method
- Prepare something to cut out a 1 cm circles such as a cookie mold, straw or a plastic wrap.
- (Juice box straws or straws from a dollar store are fine.)
- Season the rice with salt and make a rice ball to be the main part.
- Make a smaller rice ball for face and 2 small ones for ears by wrapping the rice with plastic wrap.
- Cut the nori seaweed into the size to wrap the rice balls for face and ears.
- Wrap each of them with plastic wrap and set it aside until the nori is set.
- In a bento box, place the main part then add the parts for the face and ears.
- Add some white rice to make the wool on top of the head.
- Pack other items into the bento box while waiting for the rice to cool down.
- Once the rice is cool, cut the cheese into 1 cm circles and cut out the eyes using a thin straw.
- Place them onto the face.
- It looks cute if you make it in a smaller size, I took a shortcut and used black beans for the ears the day this photo was taken.
