Teriyaki Salmon Bento consists of cooked rice, teriyaki salmon and a few small side dishes. Traditionally bento is meant to be eaten at room temperature without re-heating. It is surprising that cold Salmon Teriyaki is quite flavoursome without reheating. It is not fishy at all. Today’s bento box is a traditional wooden bento box called ‘Magewappa’. Please read the blog for more details.
Because bento is usually made mostly from the left-over dishes or make-ahead dishes, the time indicated in this recipe only shows the time to pack the bento box.
- 1 cup cooked rice (note 1)
- 30g/1.1oz Goma-ae with blanched green beans (note 2)
- 2 X 50g/1.8oz Teriyaki Salmon (note 3)
- 1 radish , cut in half (note 4)
- 2 slices Dashimaki Tamago (Japanese Rolled Omelette) (note 5)
- 2-3 tablespoons Hijiki Seaweed Salad
- A bento box of your choice (I used a Magewappa bento box - see post for details)
- 2 mini foil cupcake liners (note 6)
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While the rice is still hot or warm, place it in the largest compartment of the bento box and let it cool.
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Put green bean goma-ae in a foil cupcake liner and place in the corner of the rice compartment.
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In one of the empty compartments, place Teriyaki Salmon pieces, then radish pieces to fill the space in the corner.
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In the other empty compartment, place Dashimaki Tamago slices, almost vertically to allow space to place Hijiki Seaweed Salad.
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Put Hijiki Seaweed Salad in a foil cupcake liner and place it next to the egg.
1. It is best to pack cooked rice in a bento box while hot or warm as it is easier to shape the rice into the bento box.
2. Please use the recipe Chrysanthemum Leaves Goma-ae and use blanched green beans cut to 4cm/1½” long instead of chrysanthemum leaves.
3. Instead of small pieces of thin salmon, you could cook a salmon fillet per the recipe and cut into a small portion for this bento.
4. I wanted fresh vegetables in red colour. You could use mini tomatoes as an alternative. Instead of vegetables, you could add a small piece of fruit.
5. The amount of Dashimaki Tamago is equivalent to 1 egg. Instead of Dashimaki Tamago, boiled egg or scrambled eggs can be used if you like.
6. When I have two different foods that can easily integrate if placed next each other (e.g. one item is saucy), I often put one of them in a small foil cupcake liner (goma-ae in this case).
Instead of a cupcake liner, you can also use a small sheet of aluminium foil to separate two items.