Teriyaki Chicken Bento is a simple and easy Bento you can make for you and your family. Pan-fried chicken coated with a sweet and salty sauce is good hot and also at room temperature. It is a great dish for a Bento lunch. Chicken can be made the night ahead so that you can eat some for dinner and leave some for next day’s Bento. Just heat chicken up in the morning, and add lettuce and cherry tomatoes along with Steamed Rice in the Bento box. If you are an early bird, you can of course make the whole thing in the morning. This recipe is from our cook book Simply Bento: Delicious Box Lunch Ideas for Healthy Portions to Go
Teriyaki Chicken Bento Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
- 1 Tbsp Sake
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp Mirin
- 1 tsp vegetable oil
- 2 boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 4-6 Shishito peppers stems removed
Other items for Bento
- Steamed Rice
- Furikake rice seasoning of choice (optional)
- 6-8 cherry or grape tomatoes optional
- 2 lettuce leaves optional
Instructions
Making Teriyaki Chicken
- In a small bowl, combine Soy Sauce, Sake, sugar and Mirin. Set aside.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook for 4-5 minutes. Flip the chicken, reduce the heat to medium, and continue cooking on the other side. Add the peppers to the same pan and cook and stir for 3-4 minutes.
- When the chicken is cooked through, add the sauce to the pan and cook until the sauce is reduced and the chicken is coated in the sauce.
- Cut the cooked chicken into 1/2″ thick (13 mm) slices.
Assembling Bento
- Put Steamed Rice on one side of a Bento box, and sprinkle with Furikake. Place a lettuce leave as a divider between rice and chicken. Put sliced chicken and Shishito peppers over the lettuce. Then add tomatoes on the side.
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Jerry Hunt
August 27, 2019 at 4:58 amKonnichiwa, dozo yoroshiku. I use to live in Japan for many years, I am a single parent and moved back to america 3 years ago. My daughter refuses to eat school lunch and so everyday I make her bentos before I go to work…which means I need to wake up super early. I have been following japanesecooking101.com for about 2 years now and one thing I absolutely wish is to know what sides or main, I can make for bento and freeze in bento size portions so making her school lunch is easier….and lets me get a little more sleep. I miss how convenient everything was in Japan.