How to Meal Prep Bento: $3 Bento Challenge 常備菜で3種類のお弁当作り

konnichiwa it's Nana from just one cookbook back with another video for you and today I am making three kinds of bento this year, I will be sharing a lot of japanese style meal prep recipes with you so you can enjoy japanese food at home so for this video, I will show you how I do meal prep for bento to make this tutorial more interesting, I'm collaborating with my good youtuber friends and we challenge ourselves to make bentos under $3 here's mark from no recipes who shares delicious recipes from japan and around the world shinichi and satoshi from tabieats who's frequently broadcast about japanese food culture travel and recipes and shihoko from chopstick chronicles who shares authentic japanese recipes from australia make sure to check outtheir delicious $3 Bentos and I put the links in the description box below now let's get started typically on sundays, I prepare all the ingredients for three days of bento which I will pack on monday, wednesday and friday for tuesday and thursdays I usually make sandwiches monday, karaage bento rice $0.30 and sesame seeds $0.20 green leaf lettuce $0.10 chicken $1 grated carrot salad $0.10 spinach namul $0.12 egg $0.30 cherry tomato $0.13 snow peas $0.25 karaage bento total is $2.32 wednesday, soboro bento ground chicken $1 eggs $0.30 snow peas $0.75 benishoga $0.15 soboro bento total is $2.20 friday, onigirazu karaage onigirazu $0.85 soboro onigirazu $0.65 tuna mayo onigirazu $0.70 onigirazu bento total is $2.20 now let's meal prep! make boild eggs In a container, combine water, soy sauce and mirin gently peel the eggs and put the eggs in the sauce let them marinate overnight to up to 3-4 days in the refrigerator grated carrot add salt, black pepper, olive oil and rice vinegar then mix well bring water to boil and blanch snow peas blanch spinach in a container, add sesame oil, minced garlic and salt then mix well cut a spinach in small size and add to the mixed dressing in a bowl, grated ginger, sugar, sesame oil, sake and soy sauce then mix well cut chicken thigh into small pieces add the chicken to the sauce and mix well dredge the chicken in the flour and potato starch pan fry the chicken in a frying pan on medium heat, cook the ground chicken until no longer pink add grated ginger, sake, mirin, sugar and soy sauce in the pan and mix well with ground chicken transfer the ground chicken to a container beat the eggs in a small bowl and add sugar and mix well heat oil in the frying pan over medium-low heat and pour in the egg mixture break the egg into small pieces and it’s cooked, transfer to another bowl mixed canned tuna (in oil) and japanese mayo and mix well how to make onigirazu evenly spread the steamed rice in the center of nori sheet add lettuce add soboro chickens and eggs on top of the rice on another set of nori and rice, add spinach add carrot salad and chicken karaage on top of the spinach fold each sets gently but tightly to wrap the rice wrap with plastic wrap tightly and set aside for 5 minutes cut in half and place in a bento box (music) thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed this video please give it thumbs up and leave a comment below and if you love japanese food, follow along on instagram and facebook at just one cookbook since you guys have been watching this video till the end here's the japanese word of the day japanese language has many honorifics parts of speech that show respect and politeness you may notice many japanese words has the use of prefix Oh bento and obento kasan and okasan jii-chan and ojii-chan kashi and okashi toire and otoire uchi and ouchi bento and obento, have fun using it make sure to check out my friends youtube channel and I put their information in the description box below and tell them that i sent you subscribe if you haven't already and make sure to click the bell icon sending big thanks and love to the notifications squad see you next time with a brand new video here on my youtube mata ne!

Channel: Just One Cookbook

Views: 831,435

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Keywords: bento, meal prep, japanese food, youtube challenges, healthy meal prep, meal prep for the week, how to meal prep, easy meal prep, meal prepping for beginners, easy recipes, meal prep recipes, meal planning, chicken meal prep, japanese bento meal prep, how to make bento, cooking, bento box, wanpaku sando, お弁当, 簡単

Id: KB5pXS6leiA

Length: 8min 4sec (484 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 25 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/BonetaBelle]

You should crosspost to /r/EatCheapAndHealthy!

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[u/BureaucratDog]

I'll have to try some of these out, I've been meaning to use my bento more.