Blue Fishy Hearts Bento Box

I made this bento box for my mother for lunch!

The rice balls were a piece of cake. Just cook up some rice, when its done dish about 2 small hand fulls on to a plate and add about a table spoon of white vinegar (This is highly dependent on personal taste). Put some plastic bags on your hands so the rice is easy to play with and add a few drops of your food color of choice. Knead it into the rice, roll a hand full into a ball then shape as desired. I used a egg cooked like you would an omlet (scramble the egg with a bit of milk, dump into pan, don't touch it until it's cooked. You may want to flip the whole thing once before you work with it just to keep the top from being slimy.).



For the chicken, I cut a lean chicken breast into strips (I only used half a breast), rolled the strips in flour and "fried" in some olive oil in a skillet on the stove. I only had to flip the pieces once before they were cooked all the way through. I then put the pieces on a paper towel covered plate and let them cool. Mean while I mixed about a table spoon and a half of brown sugar with about the same amount of soy sauce, added a squirt of honey and a dash of garlic powder, (I would have used real garlic but didn't have any.) then I added some crushed peanuts. It was surprisingly delicious. The rest of the box is just some fresh cut broccoli florets topped with some a few hearts cut out of yellow cheese and a mix of grapes and strawberries on the end. If you're wondering what the purple things are that are scattered around the box...they are just slices of purple cabbage.


I made some sweet tortilla chips as a dessert by cutting a flour tortilla into wedges and lightly brushed some butter substitute on them. I sprinkled some brown sugar, white sugar and cinnamon on the pieces and put them on a cookie sheet in the oven at 350 degrees for around 20 mins. I had to break the ends off so they would fit in the container. =(