Butter Salmon Stir-fry French Beans Bento

Today bento looks nicer a little bit, as I cooked most of the dishes that I knew. The only complaints from the children are too much portion, they are having a full stomach every time after lunch ^^

Butter Salmon

Ingredients:

• Salmon, 2 pcs
• Salt, ½ tablespoon
• Pepper, 1 teaspoon
• Butter, 20 gram

Preparation:

Night Before

1. Salmon cut to half, seasoned with salt and white pepper, keep in the fridge for the next day.

Actual Day

1. Take out the salmon, pat dry the salmon with kitchen towels.

2. Heat butter in a frying pan over medium-high heat. Once the butter melts, pan-fried the salmon, cook for 2 minutes, and turn pan-fried to the other side. Pan fry each side for 2 minutes. Transfer to plate for cooling.

Baked Roasted Potatoes

Ingredients:

• Russet Potatoes, 2 pcs
• Salt, 1 teaspoon
• Garlic powder, ½ tablespoon
• Cheese powder, ½ tablespoon
• Olive oil, little

Preparation:

Night Before

1. Cut the potatoes into crescent moon shapes, soaked in cold water for 2 minutes, dried, and put into the fridge.

Actual Day

1. Add olive oil, seasonings with garlic powder, cheese powder, salt, and mix.

2. Preheat the oven, and roast until tender with 230 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes. Take out for cooling.

  

Tamagoyaki Lady Fingers / Okra

Ingredients:

• Lady Fingers, 8 pcs
• Eggs, 4 pcs
• A – Salt, little
• A - Sugar, 1 teaspoon
• A – Stocks, 20ml

Preparation:

Night Before

1. Wash and clean the lady fingers using salt to remove the outer hair, and remove the stem of okra.

Actual Day

1. Beat the eggs, add in the mixture [A].

2. Heat up the Tamagoyaki frying pan, add in a bit oil, add in the beaten eggs, and place 4 pcs of okra onto the egg sheet. Use the spatula to roll up the okras together with the cook egg, and wrap the whole okras up.

3. Push down the eggs, and add more beaten eggs into the pan, keep on the rolling and wrapping method.

4. Take out and let cool, and cut the tamagoyaki okra into half.

 

Stir-fry French Beans

Ingredients:

• French beans, 150 grams
• Mince garlic, 3 gloves
• Salt, to taste
• Olive oil, little

Preparation:

Night Before

1. Wash and cut the French beans into 5cm lengths, store in the fridge.

Actual Day

1. Heat up the frying pan, add in olive oil. Stir-fry the mince garlic till fragrance.

2. Add in the French beans and stir-fry for about 3 – 5 minutes, add in salt and stir-fry further for about 1 minute and it is done.

The rice is actually mix vegetables fried rice that I prepared in the early morning as well for the kids.