Halloween Bento (Charaben)
Halloween Bento (Charaben)

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, halloween bento (charaben). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Halloween Bento (Charaben) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Halloween Bento (Charaben) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Ghosts make the easiest Halloween-themed bentos! Just make a ghost shape following the shape of the bento box. The hat is made by sticking some nori seaweed on a piece of kamaboko.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook halloween bento (charaben) using 6 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Halloween Bento (Charaben):
  1. Take 80 grams Chicken rice
  2. Prepare 1 Carrot slices simmered in consomme (as needed)
  3. Prepare 1 other side dishes (to fill the rest of the bento)
  4. Take 1 pingpong ball sized amount Kabocha squash (simmered or mashed)
  5. Make ready 1 Nori seaweed (as needed)
  6. Get 1 Sliced processed sandwich cheese (as needed)

I misspoke the last time when I said there seemed to be more Halloween bentos coming from non-Japanese bloggers and bento enthusiasts than Japan. Many Japanese bloggers posted their Halloween bentos over the weekend, or I just missed them previously. This one features a cute green rice onigiri Frankenstein. Read about it on her blog.

Instructions to make Halloween Bento (Charaben):
  1. Form the kabocha squash into a pumpkin Jack-O'-Lantern. Make the pumpkin head by wrapping the mashed kabocha squash with plastic wrap. The ridges are formed with a toothpick. Decorate the top of the pumpkin head with a piece of kabocha peel.
  2. Cut out pumpkin shapes from pre-cooked carrot slices. Then, add on the eyes and mouth sliced out of nori seaweed.
  3. Cut bat shapes out of nori seaweed, stick them onto sliced cheese, and cut around the nori shapes with a toothpick.
  4. Halloween with Donguri-chan (a children's picture book character).
  5. Here's a Jack-O'-Lantern made with rice. Just add ketchup, mayonnaise and salt to a little bit of rice, form into an oval shape on top of a bed of white rice. That's it.
  6. Ghosts make the easiest Halloween-themed bentos! Just make a ghost shape following the shape of the bento box. The hat is made by sticking some nori seaweed on a piece of kamaboko.
  7. A Halloween night theme. Make a bento with nori seaweed lined on rice. Make bat shapes out of cheese and nori seaweed and put on top of the nori.
  8. Here's Jack Skellington from the movie, "A Nightmare Before Christmas." Make a round onigiri (rice ball), and make the eyes, nose and mouth with nori seaweed.
  9. Line a bed of rice with nori seaweed with a circle cut out. Cover the rest of the rice with more nori. Make a face in the circle like the bento in step 8. Add a moon and stars to make it a Halloween night-themed bento.
  10. Cut kamaboko out with a penguin shaped cutter, and cut down the shapes to transform into ghosts. Make cheese bats as shown in Step 7. Place the ghosts and bats on top of a bed of rice mixed with yukari.

Whoa, these garlic bread 'fingers' with sliced almond fingernails are way too scary for me! Keep reading Great Bento Ideas: Colorful charaben for Hinamatsuri (Girl's Festival). One final roundup of Halloween bentos, this time from Japan! I haven't had any time to make a Halloween themed bento this year, since I'm still working on the recipes for my book. But many talented bentoists in the Just Bento flickr pool have been busy making some really scary-cute bentos!

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