Bento of the Week: Onigiri

Thank you to everyone who participated and/or voted in the Sandwich Ball BOTW. The participants did a great job of taking on the challenge. Congratulations to CandyGirl of BentOnBetterLunches for getting the most votes for her Ice Cream Sundae bento. This bento will be displayed for the next week in the featured blog widget on the sidebar and the winner gets a special blog button announcing their win!

This themed bento meme will be posted each Friday and will accept entries through the following Tuesday. Instructions for submitting a link can be found here. At that point voting will be enabled. You can vote on Wednesday & Thursday. Full guidelines for this meme can be found here.

Week 7 Theme: Onigiri The theme for Bento of the Week 7 is Onigiri. Onigiri is defined as Japanese food made from white rice formed into triangular or oval shapes and often wrapped in nori (seaweed). Below is a tutorial on making onigiri into a bento. Please post the direct link to any bentos you've created that contain onigiri. You can post more than one, but it needs to be your bento. You may post a bento that has been submitted in a previous week as long as it fits the them. Please visit other participants and leave some love! 
Next week's theme: Egg Sheets

Thank you to Ming  for providing this week's tutorial. You can read her full post here.

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.

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

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

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

You can see the remainder of the tutorial here.