Chicken Nuggets Wraps

My sons love wraps so much. But this time, I ran out of lettuce in my fridge :( Since my youngest son does not really like broccoli on its own. I cut it small, then put it inside the wrap to add some green in his diet. And he didn't mind at all to eat broccoli in the wrap. Kids' are funny, huh ?

For the chicken nuggets recipe, I adapted from Popcorn chicken recipe from Better Home and Gardens with a little bit of twist to my liking. 

Chicken Nuggets Recipe

Ingredients
600g chicken breast fillets
1 cup plain flour
2 Tbsp cajun seasoning
1 Tbsp onion powder
1 Tbsp icing sugar
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to season
4 eggwhites
125ml milk
2 cup breadcrumbs
1 cup shredded cheese
Vegetable oil, for deep-frying

Method
1. Using a meat mallet, pound chicken to 1cm thick. Cut into 2cm squares. Combine flour, seasoning, onion powder and sugar in a bowl. Season well. Put eggwhites and milk in a separate bowl and mix to combine. Put breadcrumbs & shredded cheese in a third bowl.

2. Toss 1 chicken piece in flour mixture, shaking off excess. Dip in eggwhite mixture, then coat with breadcrumbs. Repeat eggwhite and breadcrumb stages to create a thick double crumb. Repeat double-crumbing with remaining chicken pieces.


3. Pour oil into a large heavy-based saucepan to 3cm deep and heat to 180°C on a cook’s thermometer. Cook chicken, in batches, for 3 minutes or until golden. Drain on paper towel. 

For my youngest son, I prepared :
1. Chicken nuggets wraps (wraps, nuggets, bbq sauce, grated carrot, broccoli, cheese and ham)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Carrot sticks
4. Datemaki (sweet rolled omelette)
5. Homemade fried fish ball
6. Yogurt for recess

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Chicken nuggets wraps (wraps, nuggets, bbq sauce, grated carrot, cheese and ham)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Carrot sticks and broccoli
4. Datemaki (sweet rolled omelette)
5. Homemade fried fish ball
6. Green seedless grapes for recess

The cute foodpicks in this post can be found here :

Hatched Chicks Bento

The good thing I love about bento is that I can serve similar types of food the next day, with totally different presentations. So the kids will still be having fun every time they open the lid. There are always surprise factor and unique experience for them to enjoy their meals.

Details as below :

For my pre-primary son, I prepared :
1. Chicken and broccoli nugget (recipe in here) and tomato ketchup
2. Zucchini parmesan ball (recipe in here)
3. "Hatching chick" hard boiled egg
4. Corn on the cob with carrot "flower" and black sesame seed
5. "Crab" sausage
6. Lettuce
7. Banana for recess

For my Year 3 son, I prepared :
 1. Chicken and broccoli nuggets (recipe in here) and BBQ sauce
2. "Hatched chick" hard boiled egg
4. Corn on the cob
5. "Tulip" sausage
6. Lettuce
7. Banana for recess

Wink...Wink..

This time I tried to make a clever recipe from Stay at Home Mum. It is a good way to incorporate greens into kids meal. Here is the recipe :

Chicken Broccoli Nuggets

Ingredients:

250 grams chicken mince
1 cup broccoli
3 bacon rashes, fat trimmed
1/2 cup almond meal (I replaced it with plain flour)
1 tablespoon garlic salt
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 1/2 cups panka breadcrumbs
1 cup grated cheese
oil for frying
Place broccoli, bacon, flour, garlic salt and chicken mince in food processor and blend until broccoli and bacon are in small pieces. You can continue to blend if you want them really camouflaged.

Lightly beat egg in small bowl, in separate bowl pour panka crumbs. Roll chicken mixture into balls then flatten slightly. Dip in egg then roll in panka crumbs and set aside on a lined baking tray. Repeat until all mix is used.

Fry pan – heat oil over high heat then reduce to medium, place 4-6 nuggets in frypan at a time turning after 1-2 minutes when golden brown. Then cook other side for a further 1-2 minutes. Remove from oil and set aside on paper towel. Repeat until all nuggets are cooked.

Deep Fryer – once oil has reached temperature (190 degrees) place 5-6 nuggets in the basket and cook for 60-90 seconds until golden brown. Remove from oil and set aside on paper towel. Repeat until all nuggets are cooked.

Details as below :

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Chicken broccoli nugget with BBQ sauce
2. Zucchini and parmesan balls (recipe in here)
3. Fried chicken dumpling
4. "Winking Clown" hard boiled egg (egg, nori, carrot, and lettuce)
5. Carrot sticks
6. Sausages
7. Watermelon cuts for recess

For my youngest son, I prepared :
1. Chicken broccoli nugget with tomato ketchup
2. Zucchini and parmesan balls
3. Fried chicken dumpling
4. "Winking Clown" hard boiled egg (egg, nori, carrot, and lettuce)
5. Carrot sticks
6. Sausages
7. Green grapes for recess

Bento tools I used for today's post :

Red Fish

The idea is from Dr. Seuss' book : One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish; but on this occasion, I created 2 red fish instead. I used sliced cheese for the background, red and blue egg-sheet for the fish and the bowl . For the details I used nori and white egg-sheet.

Inside the pita pocket, I put grated carrot, roast chicken sliced, BBQ sauce, sour cream and cheese.

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Red Fish Pita Pocket
2. Prawn tofu nuggets (recipe is in here) with BBQ sauce
3. Corn on the cob
4. Watermelon cuts for recess

And for my little one, I prepared :
1. Red Fish Pita Pocket
2. Prawn tofu nuggets with tomato sauce
3. Corn on the cob
4. Kiwi fruit for recess

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday on 2nd March, I made his famous character Thing 1 and Thing 2. It took me quite some time to cut the nori, but I'm quite happy with the results :)

Details as below :

Thing 1 bento for my eldest son, it consists of :

1. White steamed rice with "Thing 1 character" on top (red, white, and blue eggsheet and nori)

2. Prawn and tofu nuggets (recipe in here) with BBQ sauce

3. Asparagus and carrot sticks

4. Watermelon cuts for recess

Thing 2 bento for my youngest son, it consists of :
1. White steamed rice with "Thing 2 character" on top (red, white, and blue eggsheet and nori)

2. Prawn and tofu nuggets with tomato ketchup

3. Asparagus, leak leaf (for divider) and carrot sticks 

4. Green grapes for recess

Prawn Tofu Nuggets and Mini Croissant

My kids don't like tofu, so I tried to incorporate it in something that they love to eat, which is nugget. This recipe works so well, they said they LOVE the nuggets! So I share the recipe for you to try.

PRAWN TOFU NUGGETS

Ingredients :
350 gr white tofu
100 gr prawn
5 pcs garlic, mince
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tsp oyster sauce
1 tsp soy sauce
salt to taste
2 egg
2 tbs corn flour
2 tbs breadcrumbs

For coating :
Breadcrumbs/panko (japanese crumbs)
1 egg
canola oil for frying

Method :
1. Blend all the ingredients together in food processor until well-mixed.
2. Put the mixture into a shallow bowl (grease well and line the base with baking paper).
3. Cook it in a steamer basket over a large saucepan of simmering water for 30 min.
4. Cool it down
5. Slice it into nuggets shapes
6. Set out the flour and eggs in separate dishes
7. In small batches, coat the nuggets in flour, shake off any excess, dip it in egg, and lastly coat well with panko.
8. Transfer it to the baking tray.
9. Put it in the fridge for min 10 minutes
10. Fry it in the deep fryer until turning brown

For my little one, I prepared :
1. Ham & cheese mini croissant
2. Prawn & tofu nuggets with tomato ketchup
3. Corn on the cob
4. Leak leaf (as divider) and carrot sticks
5. Banana yogurt
6. Green grapes for recess

And for my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Ham & cheese mini croissant
2. Prawn & tofu nuggets with BBQ sauce
3. Corn on the cob
4. Carrot sticks
5. Green grapes
6. Watermelon cuts for recess

Curious George and Cruskits bento

We all love curious George. He's a little cheeky monkey that is always curious and loves his best friend ( The Man with the Yellow Hat) so much. I found myself humming the "upside down" tune (Curious George movie soundtrack by Jack Johnson) while I was doing this bento :)

I made this bento for my eldest son, it consists of :
1. "Curious George" (crumpet, cheese, breadcrust, eggwhit, and nori)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Chicken nuggets
4. A cup of Sultanas
5. Lettuce, asparagus, and baby carrot

Since my little one loves smoked salmon so much, I prepared this bento for him. It consists of :
1. Arnott's cruskits with smoked salmon, cream cheese, and dill
2. Corn on the cob
3. Kiwi fruits
4. Lettuce and baby carrots

Piggies Bento

This box consists of :
1. Mr & Mrs. Pig Onigiri (white steamed rice, eggsheet, and nori)
2. Chicken nuggets
3. "Piggy" sausages (with cheese & black sesame seed for artificial)
4. "Piggy" hard boiled egg (sausage, eggsheet, and angel hair pasta)
5. A cup of sultanas
6. Corn on the cob
7. Lettuce

Lady Bug, Fishes, and Rilakkuma Croissant Bento

My kids love croissant so much. They used to eat it with ham and cheese. So why not put their favourite in their lunch box. They must be very thrilled!
Because this croissant was quite big, I cut it into three, and made them two little fish and one Rilakkuma.

For my kindy son, I prepared :
1. "Two cute fishes" croissant (ham & cheese croissant with eggsheet and nori)
2. "Fish" shaped jelly
3. Two halves of hard boiled egg
4. "Lady bug" Granny Smith apple (egg sheet and nori for the details)
5. Lettuce and baby carrot

For my year 2 son, I prepared :
1. "Rilakkuma" croissant (ham & cheese croissant with eggsheet and nori)
2. "Seashell" shaped jelly
3. Chicken nuggets
4. Broccoli, lettuce and baby carrot

Train Ride Bento

We had a train ride at Whiteman park last school holiday and the kids really had fun. It is amazing that simple things can be so fun for young children....

Just to remind my eldest son on how much fun we had, I made him this train ride Bento.

It consists of :
1. Steamed white rice with "sausage train" on top (sausage that I connect with angel hair pasta, peas, corn, carrot, eggsheet for the window, and nori for the train track)
2. "train, car, and aeroplane" shaped jelly
3. Chicken nuggets
4. Stir fried baby corn with ham and egg
5. Broccoli

Chicken Wrap Bento

This bento consists of :
1. Chicken wrap (wrap, chicken nuggets, cheese, shredded carrot & cucumber, and BBQ sauce)
2. Halves hard boiled egg
3. Ham "flowers"
4. Broccoli
5. Mandarin

Minion from Despicable Me

The blue box consists of :
1. "Minion" hard boiled egg (ham, cheese, black sesame seed & nori)
2. Wonton
3. Corn on the cob
4. Ham and prawn & tofu nuggets
5. Broccoli, cheese, and carrot

The white box consists of :
1. Mandarin
2. Sultanas

Sandwich Stamp & Ducks Onigiri

 Details as below :

For my little one, I prepared :
1. Bear sandwich stamp (strawberry jam sandwich, cheese, nori, and carrot)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Prawn & tofu nuggets
4. Ham "flower"

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Ducks onigiri (white steamed rice, cheese, nori, and carrot)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Prawn & tofu nuggets
4. Broccoli with cheese on top, carrot "flower"

Similar tool I used for this post :

Japanese characters

Details as below :

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Japanese onigiri (white steamed rice, nori, carrot, and tomato sauce)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Prawn & tofu nuggets
4. Ham "flower" and broccoli
5. Car-shaped jelly

For my little one, I prepared :
1. Corn on the cob
2. Prawn & tofu nuggets and tomato kethcup
3. Fish-shaped jelly
4. carrot sticks
5. Kiwi fruit

Notes : for the jelly mold, I use these tools :

Chicken Wraps Bento

Menu for this time is chicken wraps. Inside the wraps are chicken nuggets, ham, shredded carrot and cheese, and BBQ sauce. Details are below :

For my year 2 son, I prepared :

1. Chicken wrap

2. Halves hard boiled egg

3. "Octopus" sausages

4. Broccoli

For my kindy son, I prepared :
1. Chicken wrap
2."Crab" sausage
3. Broccoli
4. Melon cuts

Ninjago and Cloud Baby

Inspired by Ninjago from Lego games and Cloudbabies from ABC2 TV channel.
Details as below :

I can't help loving this cute cloud baby when I accompany my kids watching this new TV program - Cloudbabies - as the picture quality & creativity are so good.
In this bento (for my little one) I prepared :
1. Cloud baby mini croissant (ham & cheese croissant, eggsheet, and nori)
2. Salmon nuggets (with grated carrot in it)
3. Corn on the cob
4. Mandarin & grapes
5. Carrot flower and leak leaf as divider

For my eldest son, Ninjago is the best :) It consists of :
1. Kai - Ninjago sandwich (ham & cheese sandwich, eggsheet, nori, and bread crust)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Salmon nuggets (with grated carrot in it)
4. Halves boiled egg
5. Broccoli

Android and Om Nom

Today's themes are Android symbol and Om Nom from my kids favourite game : Cut the Rope.
Details as below :

For my eldest son, I prepared :
1. Android sandwich (ham & cheese sandwich, with eggsheet and nori on top)
2. Grapes
3. Salmon nuggets
4. Corn on the cob
5. Hard boiled egg
6. Broccoli and carrot flower

For my little one, I prepared :
1. Om Nom sandwich (ham & cheese sandwich, with eggsheet, nori, and black sesame seed)
2. Corn on the cob
3. Salmon nuggets with ketchup
4. Mandarin