Chicken Patties Bento includes two dishes that can fill up your stomach - Chicken Patties Wrapped in Perilla and Pumpkin Croquettes. With two vegetable side dishes, it becomes a colourful bento packed with different flavours.
You can adjust the number of chicken patties and croquettes to suit to your appetite.
Because bento is usually made mostly from left-over dishes or make-ahead dishes, the time indicated in this recipe only shows the time to pack the bento box and the minimum cooking time that is required before packing.
- 1 cup cooked rice (note 1)
- 3 Chicken Patties Wrapped in Perilla
- 3 Pumpkin Croquettes
- 30g/1.1oz Pickled Carrot and Daikon Recipe (Kōhaku Namasu)
- 50g / 1.8oz Baby Mustard Greens and Tuna Salad
- 1 cos lettuce (romaine lettuce) leaf (or other lettuce leaves)
- ½ baby tomato halved into wedges
- 1 Eco friendly bento box with partitions (note 2)
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Put the rice in the second largest compartment.
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Place chicken patties in a largest compartment, filling half the space. Then place the lettuce and tomato wedges next to them.
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Put the pumpkin croquettes next to the lettuce to fill the compartment. Drop the tonkatsu sauce on top of each croquet, if using.
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Place the Kōhaku Namasu in an okazu cup and place it in the small compartment next to the rice
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Place the mustard greens salad in the same compartment as the Kōhaku Namasu (you may need to push the cup to squeeze the salad in).
1. It is best to pack the cooked rice in a bento box while hot or warm as it is easier to shape the rice into the bento box.
2. If you don't have a bento box with partitions, you can still pack bento using okazu cups to separate the dishes.