Miso Meatballs Bento

Today is the second day of bento making. I try something from the recipe book that I newly bought. Hope my bento making journey starts to be better.

Miso Meatballs

Ingredients:

• Seaweed, 1 sheet
• Ground mince pork, 300 grams
• Miso paste, ½ tablespoon
• Mirin, ½ tablespoon
• Rice Wine, to taste

Preparation:

Night Before

1. Cut the big piece of seaweed to 6 pcs 3cm square shape, put into the Ziploc bag.
2. Grounded mince pork put into a big bowl, add in the mirin and miso paste to marinate it. Take a handful portion and throw it between your both hands, to reduce the air in the meat, and increase the meats’ density. Store in the fridge and prepare for the next day.

Actual Day

1. Take out the marinated grounded pork. Take some portion and roll it into a ball shape, finally press it to form a burger shape. Stick the cut seaweed sheet on top and bottom of the meat.

2. Heat up the oil in a frying pan over high heat. Turn to low heat, pan-fry the miso meatballs for 5 minutes.

3. Slowly turn over the meatballs on the other side, add in the rice wine along the pan, and cover the pan for about 3 – 4 minutes. After uncover, pan-fry a little longer till the sauce thicken and it is done.

Hard Boiled Eggs

Ingredients:

• Eggs, 2 pc

Preparation

Actual Day

1. Put the eggs into small pot, add the water till cover the whole eggs. Heat up the pot with medium-high, turn the heat lower after the water has boiled, and cook for another 5 minutes then turn off the fire.
2. Put the cook eggs in the ice water, slowly crack the eggs shells, and let it for about 3 minutes.
3. Remove the egg shells, cut half and put in the bento box.

Stir-fry Choy Sum (Mustard Greens)

Ingredients:

• Choy Sum, 200 grams
• Garlic, 2 gloves
• Salt, to taste

Preparation:

Night Before

1. Wash and cut the Choy Sum, cut the garlic gloves to slices. Store in the fridge for next day.

Actual Day

1. Heat up the oil in the frying pan, stir-fry the garlic slices till fragrance.
2. Put in the Choy Sum and turn the heat to high and stir-fry till cook. Add in the salt to taste and it is done.   

Something interesting about this bento is the rice. I cooked the rice together with the cut pumpkin. It looks like we are having the pumpkin rice and it is so easy to make with the rice cooker.