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My bento box lunch… (tips ??) im a vegetarian?

Hi
This year I’m taking a bento box for my lunch at school. I have a japanese market around where I live and I buy things because I eat alot of japanese foods.

Here’s a few ideas…these ingredients can be found in most Japanese markets.

-Cube up your tofu and dust it with Aji Nori Furikake (pronounced: Foo-ray-kah-kay). This product is a type of seasoning combined with toasted seaweed and sesame seeds. There are many types of Furikake.

-Make seaweed salad. There should be pre-packaged seaweed salads where you just add water and chill.

-Make up a batch of vegetable tempura: sweet potato, broccoli, carrot, asparagus

-Re: Other vegetarian onigiri fillings- Try some ume’ (Japanese sour plums)…a very traditional onigiri filling.

-Red bean paste is fine for dessert. You can simply eat it with little crepes, lightly sweetened cookies. Or if you are really adventurous, learn how to make mochi. Then, fill the mochi with the sweet bean paste. For me it’s easier to buy it all premade.

-Buckwheat soba noodles: Boil them up and toss them with a little toasted sesame oil, toasted sesame seeds, chopped green onions.

-Rice topped with curried vegetables. They have premade curry sauces in most Japanese stores. Just check to make sure they are vegetarian. If not just add in curry based sauce to sauteed vegetables.

-Steamed Edamame (soybeans). Just sprinkle them with salt. Remove the shells & put them in one of the little compartments.

-Miso broiled vegetables…this would be a takeoff from MisoYaki (pork marinated in miso paste then grilled).

-Tamari Braised Shitake Mushrooms

Enjoy.

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