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Step 1
Bringing a lunch box is the same as usual cooking, including staple foods, meat, eggs, and vegetables. Let’s talk about the staple food first: I shaped the rice into small rice balls to make it easier for children to take. I didn’t add sushi vinegar, just freshly made rice. This is the simplest and most convenient.
Step 2
Or it can be made into egg fried rice. My daughter likes tuna rice very much or some children like meat floss rice. You can mix it together or put it in the center and wrap it with rice to make a rice ball. The triangular rice balls are shaped using the tiger's mouth. I grilled the tuna rice balls in the air fryer for ten minutes and they tasted great too.
Step 3
Next, let’s talk about protein foods. Eggs are of course the best choice. They can be made into fried eggs, boiled eggs, tea eggs, braised eggs, or Japanese-style thick eggs. (Vertical image, click to see)
Step 4
Beat three eggs (too little egg liquid makes it difficult to cook, and other people in the family can also eat three eggs for breakfast), add a little salt and light soy sauce.
Step 5
Apply a thin layer of oil to the pan, first pour in a quarter of the egg liquid and fry it into an egg skin.
Step 6
Use chopsticks or a spatula to roll it up from one end, it's easy to master. Put it on one end.
Step 7
Pour in another quarter of the egg liquid and fry it into an egg skin. Lift the egg roll up a little so that the egg liquid flows underneath, so that each layer of egg skin can be integrated into one. You can put some minced ham, corn kernels, carrots, etc. in the egg liquid, or you can put okra. I put a piece of cheese in the middle. Roll up and continue.
Step 8
Add second slice of cheese. Finally, when all the egg liquid is fried, the thick egg roll is ready. Change the method to give your children a fresh feeling when eating eggs.
Step 9
Let’s talk about the meat in the lunch box. Sometimes I also bring an insulated lunch box for my daughter, but many dishes are not delicious even after simmering until noon. If the meat is edible at room temperature, it should not contain fat. Chicken, lean beef, pork, and seafood are all good choices. Cook to your child's taste.
Step 10
My daughter likes fried shrimp very much. The fried prawns I brought for her in the lunch box are fresh sea shrimps with the heads and shells removed, and the backs of the shrimps are open and deveined. Add a little white pepper, salt, and starch and mix well. Just fry it in a little oil.
Step 11
You can also cut the asparagus into sections, blanch it, and roll it with bacon. You can fry it or grill it, and sprinkle a little black pepper to taste. The bacon I used is already cooked, so it tastes better if it is fried.
Step 12
Finally, let’s talk about vegetables. Green leafy vegetables are not suitable for lunch boxes because they generate nitrite very quickly and are not tasty if left for a long time. If you bring fresh vegetables, you can make them into salads or mixed vegetables. Thousand Island sauce is a very convenient choice. My daughter prefers the sauce that uses a little sesame oil to fry the minced garlic and then burn it with light soy sauce. Some other vegetables, such as king oyster mushrooms, water bamboo shoots, and lotus roots, can be stir-fried with shredded pork, minced garlic, and light soy sauce, and are also great with rice.
Step 13
When bringing Chinese lunch boxes, the cafeteria of my daughter's school provides children with microwave ovens, and teachers will assist in using them. So you can put the meals in two boxes, one that needs to be heated and one that does not need to be heated. The picture shows salt-fried yellow croaker, arctic shrimp, braised eggs, boiled broccoli (put a little oil in the water to keep it green), and light soy garlic sesame oil sauce.
Step 14
The bento in the insulated lunch box: Braised Pork Rice with Mushrooms, Arctic Shrimp with Braised Eggs, and Vegetable Salad.
Step 15
Stir-fried diced pork with king oyster mushrooms, boiled snow peas, arctic shrimp, braised eggs, and mom’s homemade sausages (vertical picture, you can click to see it)
Step 16
These are all for mothers’ reference. Insulated box lunch: grilled toothpick mutton skewers, fried chicken sausage with snow peas. Fried pork chops, salt-fried salmon, white-chopped chicken and fried shrimp balls. Braised pork ribs with shredded beans.
Step 17
Room temperature bento: boiled broccoli, grilled chicken sausage, braised eggs, salt-fried large yellow croaker.
Step 18
May the children eat nutritiously and healthily.
Step 19
Happy growth.
Step 20
Continuously updated (you can click to see the full picture): Garlic grilled tenderloin, shrimp cakes, blanched vegetables with sesame oil sauce, white rice balls.
Step 21
Garlic grilled tenderloin: marinate the tenderloin slices with minced garlic, ginger and light soy sauce overnight, then bake in the air fryer for five minutes in the morning.
Step 22
Shrimp cakes are made by peeling and mincing twenty shrimps, adding a spoonful of starch, minced ginger, salt, and white pepper, stir vigorously in one direction, and then apply some oil on your hands. Grab a ball of shrimp paste, pat it, and fry it in the pan. You can make shrimp paste in the same way. The shrimp cakes were made last night and baked in the air fryer for another three minutes in the morning.
Step 23
Fried shrimp cakes.
Step 24
This ratioSimpler: stir-fried pork tenderloin with colored peppers, smooth eggs with shrimps, and white rice.
Step 25
Continuously updated (you can click to enlarge the picture): grilled chicken legs, shrimps and eggs, vegetables, rice.
Step 26
Debone the chicken legs and marinate them in the refrigerator overnight, then bake them in an air fryer at 180 degrees for 20 minutes. Marinade: minced ginger, minced garlic, white pepper, a little sugar, light soy sauce
Step 27
Heat the oil and fry the eggs quickly until they are fluffy. Add the shrimps and fry until they change color. Add an appropriate amount of salt and a little white pepper to taste.
Step 28
Continuous updates: Fried chicken nuggets, scrambled eggs with shrimp, broccoli with Thousand Island sesame sauce, white rice
Step 29
Remove the bones from the chicken legs and cut into pieces, add minced ginger, five-spice powder and salt and marinate for 20 minutes. Mix low-gluten flour and starch, roll the marinated chicken pieces in the flour, let it sit for a while to make the flour stick firmly, heat the oil in the pan and fry it for six timesTake out the pan in eight minutes. I fried it in an air fryer, and the chicken skin would seep out oil. Preheat it to 200 degrees for 15 minutes. You can also dip it in starch, pass it through egg wash, then coat it in bread crumbs and fry it. Of course it tastes better.
Step 30
Air fryer chicken nuggets
Step 31
Continuing with bento updates: assorted fried rice, crispy quail eggs, snow peas, cherry tomatoes and grapes
Step 32
Crispy quail eggs are made from Scotch eggs. Boiled shelled eggs or quail eggs are wrapped in meat filling and fried crispy. For the specific method, please refer to the crispy quail eggs I posted.
Step 33
It's great when topped with sauce or eaten as is. It's also cute and kids will love it.
Step 34
Japanese steak rice bowl, the recipe is in my column.
Step 35
A Japanese steak bowl bento with fried poached eggs.
Step 36
It’s also braised quail eggs included in the lunch box. For the recipe, see the breakfast eggs in my column.
Step 37
The simplest and easiest to make assorted fried rice: beat an egg and fry until cooked, dice sausage, ham sausage, chicken sausage, dice quick-frozen peas, corn kernels and carrots from the supermarket, dice shelled shrimps, use leftover rice with low water content to fry The particles are distinct. Sometimes I also add diced king oyster mushrooms and add a little light soy sauce for seasoning. Lunchbox cooking tips
