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I always enjoy making seaweed cutting bento, the cutting of the seaweed is very therapeutic! Similar to all my earlier seaweed cutting bento, I used my ACTO knife to cut the seaweed. The whole process with the addition of the colors took me about 1 hour, which I did the night before.
The side dishes in this bento included sauteed baby kailan vegetables, stir fry hard pressed tofu with shiitake mushrooms and tomato, and also grilled minced pork patties which I added a wooden stick handle, looks a little like ice cream right? :D There were also some cucumber, lettuce, carrot slices that I cut using a pooh bear cutter and a cute honey pot pasta.
Once again, to answer your questions about how the colors is achieved. They are a result of using an oblate sheet. Oblate sheet is a paper thin edible sheet from Japan use for food decoration, it is tasteless and transparent. And as usual, I have included the link before to Amazon JP for the product. The seaweed cutting is placed and stick onto the oblate sheet and some diluted food coloring were 'painted' on using small brushes.
If you do not have oblate sheets, you can actually stick the seaweed on cheese as well but of course your design will have to be within the size of the cheese slice.
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おかず：ひき肉パティー、豆腐と椎茸ソテー、野菜炒め、レタス、きゅうり、にんじん。
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海苔切り方のポイント：
- Print at least 2 copies of the design you wish to cut out. One will be for cutting while the other act as a reference later on when you need to assemble or lay the seaweed cutting pieces.
- Use a good cutting knife. I use my trusty ACTO knife. There are such similar knives sold at Popular stationary/bookstores here.
- Use clips to hold the seaweed and design sheet together. reducing movement will help prevent tearing and ensure that your cutting stays as intact as possible
- Do not fret if some parts of the seaweed cutting breaks, just assemble them together and join them when you stick on either the rice, cheese or oblate sheet. No one can tell if you match the broken ends nicely!
- Cut the tiniest parts first from inside out, this enables better control and again avoids tearing of the seaweed.
- Food coloring alert! If you are not comfortable with food coloring, you can simply use the seaweed cutting and avoid adding the food coloring. A black and white design is just as pretty.
In the meantime, an earlier nature theme bento I made to share with you. Click to read the blog post!
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Today's bento was packed in Monbento original bento box (2 tier, white color) from Bento & Co.
Here is the link for the Oblate sheets