Here’s How to Make Mushroom-Stuffed Hamburger and French Toast Salad Bentos

Because bentos, if you haven’t heard, are like portable, portion-controlled Asian boxes of awesome.

And, since these recipes only take 10 minutes, they’re the perfect way to ready your school lunches for the next couple of weeks. You know, until you get lazy, say “screw it” and decide to go to McDonald’s everyday instead.

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Mushroom-Stuffed Hamburger

• 3 oz. (80 g) ground beef and pork mix
• Vegetable oil

• 1/2 bag enoki mushrooms, chopped
• 1 fresh shiitake mushroom, minced
• 2 quail  eggs
• 2 Tbsp panko breadcrumbs
• 1/6 onion, grated
• Dash each salt, pepper

• 1 Tbsp each ketchup, Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 Tbsp white wine

1. In a bowl, combine ground meat and mixture A and knead together. Divide into thirds and shape into patties.
2. Heat 1 tsp oil in a frying pan and cook patties over high heat for 30 seconds, then turn heat to low and cook for 3 minutes. Flip patties and repeat.
3. Add mixture B and bring to a boil, thoroughly coating burgers in the sauce.

Mini Sunny-Side Up Eggs

• 2 quail eggs
• Lettuce, vegetable oil, salt and pepper to taste

1. Heat 1/2 tsp oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Add quail eggs and fry sunny-side up. Season with salt and pepper. Garnish with lettuce.

Arrange: Add cooked rice to bento box. Top with hamburgers, fried eggs and lettuce.

French Toast

• 1 slice bread
• Butter, vegetable oil

• 1 egg
• 3 Tbsp parmesan cheese
• 1 Tbsp milk
• Dash each salt, pepper

1. Combine Soy Sesame Dressing in pan. Cut bread into bite-size pieces and soak thoroughly in dressing.
2. Heat 1 tsp each butter and oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Add toast and cook until browned on both sides.

Green Salad

• 1 oz. (30 g) arugula
• 3 sprigs watercress
• 6 cherry tomatoes

• 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tsp white wine vinegar
• 1/2 tsp grated onion
• Dash each salt, pepper

From Ten-Minute Bento © 2007 Megumi Fujii. Photography by Shigeki Aoto (Kodansha Photography Department. Published by Vertical, Inc. New York.