Thursday 29 September 2011

Pikachu Onigiri Tutorial

This is a tutorial for the Pikachu bento I posted on Monday. Please note that I'm using mixed grain rice and cheese in this tutorial, instead of sushi rice and egg sheet. If you are doing it, I suggest you try with sushi rice instead, and make the onigiri smaller as cheese is thicker than egg sheet.

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First, shape your rice. You can use a rice mold if you have one.

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If you do not have a rice mold, you can use a cling wrap to shape the rice.

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Cut out a slice of seaweed to wrap round the rice.

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Use the seaweed as a guide to cut out a slice of cheese.

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Wrap them around your onigiris.

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Punch out 2 circles for Pikachu's cheeks. You can also use a straw to do this.

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Then, cut out 2 circles with a round cutter, this is for the pokemon ball. You'll understand in a while why I skipped to this step.

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Cut off abt 1/3 of the circle.

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And that's why I am doing the pokemon ball first, so they can be colored with Pikachu's cheeks. I use Wilton color mist for this, you can also rub on some red coloring. Then leave them in the fridge while you move on to the next step.

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I'm using the yellow puncher to get pikachu's mouth, and the green puncher to get his eyes.

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Punch out the nori and add them on the cheese.

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Assemble back the pokemon ball.

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Cut out a strip of nori and add on the ball.

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Using a straw, cut out a small circle for the pokemon ball. Sorry, I forgot to take a pic for the next step. You have to punch out a small circle from nori and add on the cheese circle.

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Cut out pikachu's ears using a toothpick. If you are using egg sheets, you can fold the egg sheet in half and use a scissor to cut it out instead.

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Add on the ears.

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Cut out some triangles from nori and add to the tips of Pikachu's ears. You can also cut some rice to add on his eyes. :))

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the tutorial, very clear and easy to understand :-)

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