TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Basic Bento Rules Build Up Your Stash Bento Safety MAKE-AHEAD BENTOS 1. Meatballs and mini-burgers * Teriyaki Meatballs * Tomato Ketchup Meatballs * Italian Meatballs * Sweet and Sour Meatballs * Japanese Chicken Meatballs * Pan-fried Meatballs and Mini-burgers * Mediterranean-style Spiced Mini-burgers 2. Chicken * Steamed Chicken with Sesame Sauce * Easy Chicken "Ham" * Chicken and Beansprouts with Umeboshi Sauce * Crispy Fried Chicken with Chili * Maple Chicken Teriyaki * Grilled Garlic Chicken 3. Soboro * Japanese Dry Curry * Classic Japanese Soboro * Meat Soboro with Miso and Eggplant * Dandan-style Spicy Meat Sauce * Bento-friendly Spicy Meat and Tofu * Mini Shepherd''s Pie * Tuna Soboro 4. Pork * Pork and Vegetable Rolls * Sweet and Sour Crispy Sesame Pork * Baked Mini-tonkatsu * Stir-fried Miso Pork with Eggplant and Peppers * Ginger Pork with Peppers * Sweet and Spicy Bacon-wrapped Broccoli * Bacon-wrapped Tofu 5. Beef * Bibimbap * Sesame-miso Beef * Stir-fried Steak with Rosemary and Orange * Roast Beef for Bentos * Cold Roast Beef with Wasabi Ginger Sauce * Roast Beef Salad with Southeast Asian Flavors 6. Egg * Chicken Omu-rice * Marinated Hard-boiled Eggs * Egg Salad with Miso * Japanese Rolled Omelette * Egg Crepes * Egg Parcels * Mini Quiche 7. Fish * Lemon Butter Tilapia * Spicy Pan-fried Fish Nuggets * Salted Salmon * Salmon Soboro * Tuna and Ginger Nuggets * Salty-sweet Simmered Sardines 8.

Tofu and Vegan * Tofu Donburi Bento * Baked Tofu * Ginger Tofu Teriyaki * Tofu Soboro * Fried Tofu Roll-ups * Bean and Pea Curry * Green Lentils and Brown Rice 9. Rice Sandwich * Ham and Egg Rice Sandwich * Egg-wrapped Rice Sandwich with Bacon Rice Filling * Rice Burger with Swiss Chard and Cheese * Tuna Salad with Dried Shiso Leaves * Brown Rice Sandwich with Japanese Omelette and Edamame Filling 10. Low Carb, featuring Shirataki Noodles and Konnyaku * Stir-fried Shirataki Noodles * Rice and Shirataki Pilaf with Shrimp * Shirataki Chicken "Ramen" in a Lunch Jar * Shirataki with Sesame * Chicken and konnyaku "noodle" peperoncino * Spicy Simmered Konnyaku EXPRESS BENTOS 1: "Instant" Soup in a Thermal Lunch Jar 2: Mediterranean Pasta Bento 3: Yakisoba Bento 4: One-pan Bento 5: Deconstructed Taco Salad Bento 6: Wrap Bento 7: Appetizer Bento 8: Stir-fry Bento 9: Salad Bento 10: Tasty sandwich ideas MORE RECIPES How to Cook Rice and Other Grains Side Dishes: Vegetables * Roast Asparagus with Balsamic Vinegar * Asparagus with Sesame Seeds * Asparagus Mimosa Salad * Spicy Broccoli * Broccoli Florets with Bacon and Garlic * Broccoli-stalk Kinpira * Salted Cabbage * Carrots Cooked in Soup * Carrot Shirishiri * Max''s Lemon Carrot Salad * Miso-peanut Green Beans * Sautéed Mushrooms * Sake-steamed Mushrooms * Tricolor Peppers with Anchovies * Braised Pepper and Eggplant * Caponata * Potato and Corn Salad * Cheesy Potatoes * Spinach with Sweetcorn * Spinach Namul * Spinach with Bonito Flakes * Marinated Vegetables Side Dishes: Japanese Vegetables * Burdock Root Kinpira * Burdock Root Tataki * Simmered Kiriboshi Daikon * Kiriboshi Daikon Salad * Buttery Kabocha Squash * Lotus Root Salad * Spicy Stir-fried Lotus Root * Lotus-root and Tofu Burgers with Sweet and Sour Sauce * Simmered Soy Beans with Konnyaku * Crunchy Stir-fried Soy Beans * Edamame Cheese * Hijiki Seaweed with Carrots and Shiitake * Hijiki Seaweed with Garlic * Simmered Konbu Seaweed * Nori Seaweed Bento * Wakame Seaweed and Cucumber in Vinegar Sauce * Wakame Seaweed and Beansprout Stir Fry Little Bento Side Dishes * Miso Soup Balls * Tomato Soup Balls * Decorative Sausages * Other "Gap Fillers" Dashi Stock Recipes * Katsuobushi and Konbu Seaweed Dashi Stock * Rice Sprinkles * Konbu Seaweed Dashi Stock * Shiitake Dashi Stock * Chicken Stock Tools and equipment Types of Bento Boxes Bento Box Accessories Glossary Index Resources.