"This is our award-winning entry in the Hellmann’s “Real Taste, Less Waste” Challenge. Back in February when we entered the Real Taste, Less Waste-Kids School Lunch Bento Box, we knew at the time it was speaking to a commitment to healthy, good tasting food, less waste, and promoting a healthier environment for our children. And then things changed, we hope, for the better."
Kid's Schools Lunch Bento Box
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Prep time: 20mins
Cook time: 10mins
Serves or Makes: 4
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ingredients
- 4 4 oz salmon filets
- 1/2 cup teriyaki sauce
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
- 1 1/2 cups shredded iceberg lettuce
- 2 tbsp Hellmann's Squeeze Bottle Mayonnaise
- 2 cups steamed white rice
- 1/4 cup sliced black olives
- 1 cup sliced carrots
- 4 strips dried nori seaweed
- 4 tomato for smiles
- 8 red radish roses
- 1 small cucumber, cut and sliced
Method
Step 1
Steam the white rice and reserve. While the rice is cooking, heat the broiler. Place the salmon filets on a rack over a cookie sheet and brush with some of the teriyaki sauce. Broil the salmon filets for 5 minutes until golden and firm to the touch. Bring the salmon out of the oven and sprinkle with the toasted sesame seeds and let rest while you prepare the other bento items.
Step 2
You can cut the vegetables ahead of time and place them in a bowl of cold water and chill in the fridge. Peel and cut the carrots then slice like our photo above. Cut the cucumber and slice like the photo. Cut the stems off the radish and cut off the other end. Make cuts in the radish turning 1/4 each time to make a rose.
Step 3
Using scissors and a ruler as a guide, cut thin strips from a sheet of dried nori seaweed for the rice ball "belt." Cut the tomato smile like our photo above.
Step 4
Place some of the shredded lettuce in one compartment of the bento. Lay a filet of salmon on top of the lettuce. Form a ball of rice to fit in another compartment, then wrap it with a belt of the dried nori seaweed. Add a carrot nose and two black olive eyes. Place the carrots, cucumbers and radish roses in the other compartment of the bento.