Spongebob bento
My wife wanted to eat ‘nasi uduk’ (coconut milk rice) for today along with its usual side dishes like fried chicken, omelette egg, chicken floss, along with vegetables like cucumber, tomato, and lettuce. Since there were lots of food I think it’s best to utilize some of them (or all) for my bento today.
So after looking for several bento ideas, I’ve decided to make a Spongebob kyaraben which I think it’s perfect to utilize our today menu.
The coconut milk rice is basically the white rice made with coconut milk instead of water, plus several ingredients like daun salam (Indonesian bay leaf or Euginia polyanthum Wight), sereh (lemongrass or Cymbopogon citratus) , and lengkuas (Alpinia galanga). In Malaysia or Singapore they used to call it ‘nasi lemak’ which is the same thing with Indonesian ‘nasi uduk’. Compare with regular white rice, coconut milk rice has this very nice savory flavor and smell which add your appetite, but since made with lots of coconut milk the rice is very filling so we should eat it less than our regular portion.
Back to the bento, I made an egg sheet to cover the coconut milk rice and made the square shape. There are lots of facial details to be fill. The eyes were made with quail egg and nori, I cut the nori with scissors. The other circles were made from quail egg, cheese, and ham cut with 2 different size of straw. The mouth parts were made with carrot, quail egg, and ham; all cut with knife. It looked really simple but it took more time to make the Spongebob than my regular bento.
For side dishes, I took fried chicken, chicken floss, and cucumber from our dinner menu and I add a cherry tomato and mandarin orange to fill up the space along with the usual broccoli chunks.
ha ha! So funny your Spongebob! I can tell he was a lot of work, with all the detail. The eyelashes are great! Nice and neatly done!
Hello, thanks Sheri. Of course you know the Spongebob required more time to prepare since you’re a bento expert yourself
You are great in making all the details for your bento. Nasi uduk indeed is yummy, can eat it for breakfast-lunch-dinner (^.^)
Thanks Lia. Yes I agree that we can eat nasi uduk about any time of day but I still prefer to eat them at lunch since I prefer to have light breakfast.
I love the coconut rice, can I make it in a rice cooker like regular rice?
Hello there arkonite, I think you can make it using regular rice cooker but the result will be better if you make it the usual way, which is
1. clean white rice thoroughly and drain the water
2. steam the rice on steamer until they turn white (half cook)
3. remove the rice from steamer
4. heat a pot and add all other ingredient until the coconut milk become boiled
5. put the steamed rice into the pot, shimmer until the liquid gone but keep stirring so it won’t get sticky
6. put the rice back to the steamer, for 15 min or until the rice is cooked done
love your sponge bob, something i have yet to try. u packed the rice very nicely. oh how i heart for some serunding, yum.
Yes, if you make the coconut milk by yourself (not the instant pack) you can set aside some of the shredded coconut and make yourself serundeng ^_^
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Spongebob is really funny and hilarious. somebody says that spongebob is gay, is that even true?,,:
Well Mason, I don’t know for sure since I don’t watch the show and not following this character at all. I made this bento because I can use the yellow egg sheet perfectly with this character.
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