Japanese Bento Box Recipes

Transcript What are we going to do now is innovative gunkans with Washusi Samba. It’s one of our signature gunkans. This is salmon with some wasabi tobiko. Koji San is slicing the salmon. We’re using a Scottish salmon previously cured with some salt and sugar and rinsed with rice vinegar. We see him dipping his …

Transcript Bento is great. Basically, it’s origins are Japanese, but it can be used in any part of the world. What is great about it, is that you are preparing your meal for the day, or for the lunch. You bring it to work. You eat it, you wash your container and you bring it …

Transcript Something really important for the bento boxes, because it’s very true to Japanese tradition, is to follow seasonality. It’s good that you go to the market, you find the vegetables that are in that season. First of all, because they are going to taste great . Second, they are going to be cheaper, because …

Transcript Peruvian food is great. It is a cuisine that is just coming out of, to the eyes of the world. Something that it wasn’t quite known in different part of the world, and now it’s getting a little bit of popularity through the ceviche. Which is a simple dish, raw fish cooked with some …

Transcript [Music] Hi, this is Fernando Navas. I’m the career chef for Sushisamba Restaurants. I’m from (?), Argentina. I’ve lived here in New York for six years. Before coming to New York, I worked at Nobu restaurant in Miami. After that, I did a stretch at ElBulli, which is a renowned restaurant in the world. …

Transcript Bento boxes is the Japanese name that is given to these boxes to serve lunches. We have three types of them. This one is for kids, where we prepare the food. There’s bento boxes for adults where we put some sushi rolls, pickles, fresh fruits, steamed vegetables, brown rice, and (?) on top. This …

Transcript Today, we are going to show you how to do an innovative Gunkan that we are doing at our restaurant, which is wagyu tartare with quail eggs and potato spice. So Kojisan already started slicing the wagyu beef. Basically, for two gunkan is basically is what it is for each person. We’re going to …

Transcript We are going to do a great recipe for sushi, which is an innovative gunkan. We are doing seared Foie Gras, a little bit of Nashi pears, and eel sauce. So Koji’s going to start with a little bit of sea salt on top, a little bit of fresh ground black pepper on both …

Transcript We are going to demonstrate you how to do . So is start cutting the strips of the nori. The ones we are going to wrap the rice with. He cut it, he’s cutting it one inch wide. So is a type of sushi that we’re going to use to put the so that …

Transcript This is shiozake onigiri. So what Koji already did, he dipped his fingers a little bit in water, he put a little bit of salt on his hands, and now he’s going to do the rice in the shape of a triangle. As you can see, Koji makes a hole in the middle. He’s …

Transcript So, I’m going to show how to do a chicken teryaki for a bento box. First of all, we need to choose our chicken at the store. I got a really nice, natural chicken, basically organic. I’m going to use just the breast. You can also use the thigh, but I find that this …

Transcript So now we’re gonna make ribeye teriyaki which we can eat it over rice or we can do for bento box. We have a beautiful, as everyone can see a beautiful ribeye. I’m gonna use half of it because bento box has, it can be four, six, eight compartment. So we don’t want to …

Transcript So we are going to do a vegetarian bento. I’m gonna start with some of the mushroom kamameshi that I just prepared a few seconds ago. And we are going to put it in the compartment that it’s gonna be easy to reheat. It’s gonna be reheated but it also come with this cover …

Transcript So what I’m going to show you now is how to do pickles. It can be for bento boxes or it can be eaten as a snack or at the beginning of the meal. Here I have beautiful vegetables that I just prepped before some of them. As you can see they have nice …

Transcript We are going to show how make a Japanese traditional dish, which is called kamameshi. There’s two different kinds of rice that you can use. Genmai, which is brown rice. It takes a little bit longer to cook, but the flavor has kind of, like a, nutty flavor, and is healthier, and regular sushi …

Transcript We are going to go chicken anticuchos, which is a traditional Peruvian treat food. Our take on it, we are going to serve it also with a Peruvian sauce with cheese base on a (?) paste. It can be fine dried, and then you hydrate it and you make your own sauce. So let’s …

Transcript We’re going to do Rib eye Anticuchos with Aji Panca Sauce. This is a Peruvian recipe. To make this recipe, we need rib eye, some skewers, I’m using these beautiful bamboo ones. And then, aji panca, which can be found in any Latin market. I’m going to start cutting the meat. I’m going to …

Transcript So, we covered three different types of Bento Boxes. We begin with this one that are for kids. We have to make sure that there are Bento Boxes for kids to eat at lunch. We have a starch, a protein, and this one we can see we have some fruit. On the side, we …

Transcript So, we’re going to put like a (?) box. Basically, the great thing about this is we can use the leftovers from the night before, as a quick method to put something together. I’m going to choose this one, which is a small. It’s an easy way to count the calories, how much we’re …

Transcript My theory for putting in a good bento box and to be nutritional it is. I like to make a ratio of two type of vegetable, which can be pickle vegetable, steamed, stir-fry, and always combine them with some fruits as the last bite of the bento box. Also, one part of the starch. …

Transcript I think that Bento box is the right to count the calories, and try to lose weight. You can have a little bit of vegetables plus a little bit of protein, some starch. In that way you can manage your meal in that meal period of the day. You don’t have to go to …

Transcript So I’m going to show you how to prepare a bento box for kids. I just use this one, the green one as you see, because it has a cover and it has two compartments, one which is microwavable. It can be re-heated for one minute. And here we’re going to put the rice …

Transcript What we are going to show you today, it’s a sushi roll for a kid’s bento. We have this beautiful bento box with two compartments. One of them is going to be reheatable in the microwave. We have some brown rice, some steamed vegetables and a hardboiled egg. And this is the type of …