Cookpad’s Delicious Selection – Bento Recipes!

This recipe book is a bit different as it’s not written by a top cook or a famous chef, but includes 95 different recipes selected from the thousands uploaded to Japan’s most popular crowdsourced recipe site – Cookpad.
This particular book focuses on one of the most delicious and typically Japanese aspects of the country’s iconic cuisine – the bento! From luxurious three-dish bento to the more humble one-dish as well as side dishes and onigiri all written by ordinary people supplying their everyday home cooking recipes, you can really say that through this book you can get a true taste of contemporary Japan (not to mention a delicious lunch)!
Table of Contents

Three-Dish BentoFried chicken, hamburger, etc.
One Dish Bento“Soboro” (minced meat or fish), Neapolitan, etc.
Main Dishes“Chicken nanban” (fried chicken with vinegar and tartar sauce), beef “shigure-ni” (simmered beef)
Side DishesPotato and carrot “kinpira” (cooked with mirin and soy sauce), omelette with crab flavor “kamaboko” (fish paste), etc.
Onigiri VariationsInari (fried tofu) sushi, “tenmusu” (tempura inside nori wrapped rice ball), etc.