Sautéed Brussels Sprouts Lemon Chicken Bento

Another two new recipes for children's bento today — sautéed brussels sprouts lemon chicken and beef roll sushi.

Sautéed Brussels Sprouts Lemon Chicken

Ingredients:

• Brussel sprouts, 150 grams
• Chicken stocks, 50ml
• Chicken chop debone, 2 pcs (about 360 grams)
• Lemon, 1 pc
• A – Soy sauce, 1 tablespoon
• A – Sugar, 1 tablespoon
• A – Rice wine, 1 tablespoon
• Salt, little
• Pepper, little
• Corn flour, little

Preparation:

Night Before

1. Wash and clean the Brussels sprouts, cut into half per piece.
2. Heat up the oil, put in all the brussels sprouts and pan-fry till it crisp, add in the salt and pepper, continue to stir-fry. Add in the chicken stocks, and shimmer for about 3 minutes. Open up the pan cover continue to stir fry and its done. Let it cool and store in the fridge for next day.

Actual Day

1. Cut the chicken chop into bite sizes, add in salt and pepper and marinate about 10 minutes.

2. Cut the lemon into half. The first half mix together with [A]; second half cut into thin lemon slices and quarter cut again for garnishing purpose.

3. The chicken chop dip into the corn flour. Heat up the frying pan, put in little bit oil, place the chicken with skin face down onto the frying pan. Pan fry till golden brown, then only turn to the other side and continue to fry till the same.

4. Add in the lemon mixture sauce, then add in the brussels sprouts, continue to stir-fry till the sauce thicken and it is done.

Beed Sushi Roll

Ingredients:

• Shabu-shabu beef slices, 180 grams
• A – Soy sauce, 1 tablespoon
• A – Sesame oil, 1 tablespoon
• A – Sugar, 1 tablespoon
• A – Rice wine, 2 tablespoon
• A – Chili sauce, to taste
• Corn flour, 1 teaspoon
• Eggs, 4 pcs
• B – Chicken stocks, 25ml
• B – Sugar, little
• B – Salt, little
• Seaweed, 1 pc
• Kyuri Japanese Cucumber, 2 pcs

Preparation:

Night Before

1. Mixture [A] together with the Shabu-shabu beef slices, marinate overnight and store in the fridge.

2. Beaten the eggs, add in the mixture [B] mix well, and make the tamago. Cut the tamago to slices after cooling, and store in the fridge for next day.

Actual Day

1. Take out the marinated beef slices, add in the cornflour.

2. Heat up the oil, put in the beef slices and stir-fry till cook. Let cool.

3. Cut the kyuri into thin slices.

4. Roll out the sushi roll mat, put the seaweed sheet on top. put a layer of white rice, add in the tamago, beef slices and cucumber slices. Roll up the sushi from bottom till top. Let it cool down for 3 minutes and cut the sushi.

On top of that, I add in the stir-fry shimeji with Worcester sauce as well, which I did last week. I am getting more and more love to prepare the lunch for children to bring to school now, even though I know that there are a lot of rooms for improvement ^^