Bento Box - Tonkatsu Bento
Bento Box with Tonkatsu as a main is called Tonkatsu Bento. It consists of cooked rice, tonkatsu and a small amount of a few side dishes. It is intended to be eaten at room temperature. I have written my instructions on how to pack the box to make it look like the photo of the bento box in the post. But you don’t need to place the ingredients in the same way.Because bento is usually made mostly from the left-over dishes or make-ahead dishes, the time indicated in this recipe only shows the time to pack the bento box.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 7 min
- Yield
- 1 serving
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 cup cooked rice ((note 1))
- 50g/1.8oz Goma-ae (with snow pea shoots (note 2))
- 2 tomato wedges
- 50g/1.8oz Japanese Potato Salad
- A handful of shredded cabbage
- 100-150g / 3.5-5.3oz Tonkatsu ( cut into 2cm/¾" wide strips (note 3))
- Black sesame seeds with salt ((optional, note 4))
- Bulldog tonkatsu sauce ( in a tiny bottle/jar/container (note 5))
- A bento box of your choice ((I used a double decker bento box))
- A mini foil cupcake liner ((note 6))
Instructions
- 1
While the rice is still hot or warm, place the rice in the bento box and let it cool.
- 2
Put snow pea shoots goma-ae in a foil cupcake liner and place it next to the rice.
- 3
In a small space next to the cupcake liner containing goma-ae, place tomato wedges.
- 4
Place the potato salad at one end of the box.
- 5
Place shredded cabbage next to the potato salad, allowing sufficient space for the tonkatsu to fit in.
- 6
Place the tonkatsu pieces to fill the box.
- 7
If the container of tonkatsu sauce is small enough to fit in the corner of the bento box, put it in the box. Otherwise, pack it separately.